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Healthy Eating and Sustainability

25/6/2021

In Health this term, we have been learning why it is important to have a healthy diet. To celebrate our learning, we would use the healthy foods we have in our garden to cook a healthy meal! It was delicious.

Well done, everyone on planting, harvesting, chopping, cooking and eating the Vegetable soup and Zucchini slice. A massive thank-you to everyone who helped serve the meal and clean up. We have lots of talented people here at St Joseph's.

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Plastic Free July

23/6/2021

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Again this year, students have pledged to do one thing at home to help their family go Plastic Free this July.
The Junior students had some great ideas of what their families could do, including:
● Take reusable shopping bags to the supermarket
● Make sure you put things in the right bin
● Don’t use single-use plastic bags from the supermarket
● Take your produce bags
● Bring Nude Food in Term 3

What will your family do to go PLASTIC FREE this JULY?
Take the Pesky Plastic Quiz to see how well you are already doing to be Plastic Free.
survey.thinkfieldpanel.com.au/wcfs/29402

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We’ve applied for a Coles Buddy Bench

11/6/2021

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Coles is celebrating ten years as a drop off point for REDcycle soft plastics by giving schools, who collect soft plastics for REDcycle a chance to win a Buddy Bench made from the soft plastics.
Jack, Xavier, Angus and Liam showed excellent environmental leadership by working together during remote learning last week to write the 400-word application. They had to explain what we were doing at St Joe’s to make sure we look after the environment. Well done, Jack, Xavier, Angus and Liam. Fingers crossed, we are successful. Here’s their application.

St Joseph's School students have been Waste Warriors, using REDcycle since 2015. Four Grade 5 students explain what they have learnt and what we are doing to help students, families, and the community protect the environment. We know that If you have scrunchable plastic, you should put it in the REDcycle bin, and it saves it from going to landfill. To make even more difference for the environment, kids at our school bring Nude Food in their lunchbox or wrap it in the Wax Wraps we made with our parents. If you have food at home wrapped up in plastic, take it out of the plastic and put it in the REDcycle bin at Coles. The plastic is made into plastic products like Buddy Benches and saves it from spreading all over the place. By Angus
Everyone tries their hardest to get every student on board and persuade them to bring Nude Food and reduce the plastic they buy. We remind everyone that if we keep on purchasing plastic, it won't go away. Even if we put it in the bin, it doesn't go away because when you make plastic, you can't remove it even if you burn it. It will still be there in tiny particles. If we drop a piece of plastic down the drain, it goes down into the ocean, and animals will think it’s food, and they will eat it, and they will get sick and possibly die. By Xavier.
We learnt that you could recycle waste or make something creative from it. If you have plastic that you can scrunch, we put it in the REDCycle bin, then when it is full, take the soft plastic to the REDcycle Bin at Coles. If we all do that, we help the environment, and the plastic is made into Buddy Benches.
By Liam
We know if you see rubbish make sure you put it in the bin. If we reduce our rubbish, it will cost less, and it is good for the environment. Because of what we do at St Joseph's to reduce waste and care for the environment, we would love a Buddy Bench from Coles. It would be made from the soft plastic we put in the REDcycle bin. The Buddy Bench will be put in the Indigenous garden and will be a place to help stop the loneliness of some students. By Jack

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Healthy Eating and Sustainability

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We’ve applied for a Coles Buddy Bench

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