Our Bicicletta Celebration on the Terrace Tuesday 4th December

Despite some unpleasant weather, there was lots of happy noise, laughter and chatter as we stood around in our beautiful terrace garden sharing afternoon tea. The sun came out towards the end when there were only a few people left to witness the fun and madness as we played with the ice!

The reason for our afternoon tea was two-fold, as you would know: to celebrate the wonderful year that we’ve had in Prep and also to raise awareness about the need to look after the plants over summer. Libby has suggested two things:

1) Foster Families for Plants: in the last two weeks of school, people could take home a smaller pot plant or two to look after over summer.

2) Come in to water and be rewarded: Families could pop in over summer to water the plants and check up on the chooks. In return, you can harvest any vegies in the Kitchen Garden and take home eggs they chooks have laid.

We will (with your help, please!) move all of the bigger-sized pot plants over to one side of the terrace, closer to the Kitchen Garden, to make watering easier. The hose and water tank key will be left in convenient spots.

SO, if you are able to help, please email me so that I can pass your details on to Libby, or just talk to her yourself.

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it. It was lovely having the time to stand around and chat about all sorts of things. I was too busy chatting to take note of who cleaned up, so I’m sorry I can’t name you, but thank you!

Also, two BIG thank yous go to Libby for instigating it and organising all of the food; and to Kirsty who spent the afternoon helping Libby to set up.

Our beloved terrace

After school on the last day of term three (21st September), a dedicated bunch of people helped to do some maintenance and nurturing of our terrace – sweeping, re-potting, watering and feeding plants. Thank you so much to Brett, Amelia, Phil, Diana, Kate and Michelle. Thank you especially to Kirsty who initiated and organised this mini working bee, bringing tools and treats to eat.

Thank you also to Frances and her family who looked after the terrace over the holidays.

The Preps are really enjoying the flowers and purple pea pods. Thank you to everyone who at some stage or another helped to make this beauty possible.

End of Term 3 - Friday spring clean

A couple of messages about Friday 21st September - last day of Term 3.

From Kirsty: 

We're planning to have a spring clean / plant rejuvenation this Friday (last day of term.)

If anyone can spare a couple of hours from 1.00pm onwards to:

• sweep 

• re-pot some plants 

• fertilise and mulch the pots 

• generally give the plants a bit of spruce up! 

And... if anyone would like to donate some new plants to replace some of the hanging baskets - and other pots - please bring!

Remember it's early break up on Friday - 2.30pm. But come and stay on for another hour to help, and perhaps we can have a drink at the end - on the tidy terrace?!!
See you there!
Kirsty

From Nerida:

Thanks Kirsty for organising this. It sounds fantastic! I would love to hang out for an hour or two after work with you all. If you would like to celebrate with drinks and food, bring something along. We also need some indoor plants, as the succulents weren't coping and have been moved outside onto the terrace. So, if you would like to donate something, indoor ferns or other suitable plants would be much appreciated. Thanks everyone!

Thank you Brett

Thank you to Brett for sweeping the terrace this morning, it looks so much better.  If you ever have 5 minutes in the morning we would really appreciate it if you could water the plants or sweep the terrace. 

Silent Reading

We have been enjoying the beautiful sunshine amongst the plants on the terrace, getting vitamin D and appreciating the hard work that our families put in to creating this space. 

 

Lunch on the Terrace

Watering plants on the Terrace

Libby has made a Watering Checklist to help us keep track of the watering of our plants on the terrace. Please, if you have even five to ten minutes spare in the morning or afternoon, water some plants, focussing on one ‘group’ at a time, i.e. the hanging plants, back plants or front plants and then tick off the corresponding grid on the Watering Checklist. Our beautiful, inspiring terrace will only stay alive if we all take responsibility for it. Please and thank you.

Greening the Terrace - thank you!

A big thank you, as has already been made, to all of the people who made our terrace the beautiful and inspiring place that it is. Whether you made a donation or helped out on the day, we are truly grateful. An thousand thank yous are owed to Kirsty and Libby in particular for initiating and organising it. We feel so lucky, in Bicicletta, to have such a generous and supportive community of families.

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Friday Market

Congratulations on an amazing Friday Market!


We raised $675.40 in total, which is a very impressive effort by any account, and particularly given the short notice this time.

Thank you to everyone who donated food. Having sampled more than was sensible (in the spirit of supporting the stall of course) I can say that the food was excellent and we managed to sell every single item.


Thank you as well to everyone who helped out with setting up the stall, selling and packing away at the end of the day.  It is a wonderful way to support our learning community and we really appreciate all your hard work.

The money from each Friday Market stall is divided between the hosting learning community and the kitchen garden program. Half of the money raised each week goes to Margaret who runs our gardening sessions. The other half is for us to spend in our learning community on resources that we feel are important or that we can't find the money for in our school budget.  

This semester we would like to put the money towards greening up the terrace (the bag and main entry area). This is a great space but it's being underutilized at the moment and we would love to make it a really stimulating and welcoming environment for the students so we can make the most of our classroom space. We will be asking for donations of plants and pots for the terrace soon, and scheduling a working bee. I will post information about specific items we are looking for in the next couple of days.

Thankyou again for all your hard work. We are extremely lucky to have such a supportive and enthusiastic parent body in our learning community.