Belgrove Senior Girls' School

Dear Parents, Guardians and Pupils,

A suggestion has come from a fourth class member of the Green School Committee about lunches. It has emerged that the amount of farming land needed to sustain animals is much greater than the amount of land needed for growing vegetables, fruit and grains. If more of us were to eat less meat and more plant based food, we would be able to grow more food per acre, and feed more people. Also, animals produce a lot of methane gas (especially cows!), which is very damaging to the environment.

So, here are a few ideas from fourth class about going ‘Meat Free’ for school lunch:

Sandwiches and rolls

Cheese & onion

Coleslaw

Cheese & tomato

beetroot & lettuce

cheese & butter

maybe just  butter

cucumber & tomato

tuna & sweetcorn

Other options:

You could have your sandwich or roll with a piece of fruit and a piece of vegetable, and maybe a rice cake or a cracker, or whatever snack you want.

The Green School Committee met today for the first time after the Christmas holidays. Today it was decided that the girls are going to be more careful with closing doors and turning lights off when they are out of the room.

The Golden Boot for our WALK ON THURSDAY was announced today. The girls in sixth class were the winners – well done!!! The committee decided that we will run a WALK ON THURSDAY again when the weather is a little warmer.

Dale Treadwell from Naturally Wild visited the school on Monday and taught girls in second, third and sixth class all about hedgehogs and bees. The committee will hopefully put this new knowledge  to good use when working towards our Biodiversity flag.

We would also like to welcome Paul MacDermott as our parent’s representative. Thanks Paul for your help, we really appreciate it.