The Light and Heavy gardening groups have built the Citrus Grove near the Oak Tree Sandpit in the school grounds. Over the last year we prepared the site, built the retaining wall from redgum sleepers and concreted them into position.
Now we will improve the soil with organic matter from our veggie garden compost bays, ready to plant a lemon tree and maybe espalier an orange tree along one side of the sleepers.
Each session the children are chosen individually to complete our ‘special jobs’. The children take responsibility for feeding our chooks, the guinea pig and our worms. Beginning our year, we […]
Last Friday the grade 6 I sea, I care ambassadors and myself conducted a tree survey for our annual Habitat Quality Assessment Score. It was a lovely day and the […]
In Term 1 CERES Incursion teachers Julia and Alex have been riding in our new CERES Mobile Energy Classroom, visiting schools in regional Victoria to run ‘Do More with LESS’ student leadership conferences.
Strathaird Primary school invites you to join us on our endangered ecosytem journey. Our garden now has a nature trail with signage. We think it’s pretty special. Have a look […]
In November 2012, Solway held it’s first fair for over 10 years. As well as providing a fun day out for the community, one of the key objectives was to […]