Doing More with Less at Dawesville

I was so happy to go to Dawesville Catholic Primary School to see everything they do to look after the environment.  The Green Team took me on a tour of the school and I got to see lots of productive vege patches, 25 (!!!) chickens, 3 aquaponics systems, a well-organised recycling centre, worm widdle for sale, and a whole lot more!  We went out with the Pre-Primary kids.  They picked veges and collected the eggs, then went back to the class to eat.  Nearly all of the pre-primary kids loved their veges!



I had a few questions for The Green Team and they had some well thought out answers.
1. "What Doing More with Less Project are you doing?"  "We want to have a community compost.  We were going to have it for the whole community but we would like to start with our Parish."  (They had some great reasons for this.)
2. "What students are involved in waste projects?"  "The entire school!  Different groups have different roles and they are led by the Green Team, Chook Champions, Worm Warriors and the Recycling group."

3. "How can you share what you have been learning about?"  "We made a movie.  The Green Team used the Millennium Kids bloggie camera to make a 4 minute movie, teaching other people about Doing More with Less."  We will be sharing this movie on the blog soon.  Stay tuned!
4.  "Where to next with your project?"  "We need to complete the design  and then get a quote."
5.  "How can Millennium Kids help?"  "Perhaps with a little bit of funding? We have a parent at the school who has built a lot of the vege enclosures.  We will speak with him about how much it might cost."
At Dawesville they have raised funds for other projects with Spellathons, Lapathons and a Waste Wise grant.  It's great to see that the kids are a part of the problem-solving and planning of all the projects. Well done Dawesville! Ingrid

Worm Widdle for Sale!!