Welcome back to Term 3. This week the Student Environment Club met up to plan our focuses for Term 3. As a Club the students agreed upon to focus on:

• To continue encouraging the St John’s community to participate in Waste Free Wednesday
• Create repurposed bags from old t-shirts.

During Term 1 the Year 6 WEN leaders attended the Primary WEN Connect Day where they participated in an activity to create a ‘No Sew Bag’ out of an old t-shirt. 

The Environment Club is asking for a donation/s of an old clean t-shirt without any writing on it so that they can repurpose those t-shirts into bags in preparation for an upcoming school event. This is inspired from the over saturation of ‘Fast Fashion’ in today’s society. It is also a part of the following steps to reduce waste in the following order:

• Refuse
• Reduce
• Reuse
• Repurpose
• Recycle

Please note how ‘Recycling’ should be our last step when we are looking to reduce waste.

Year 6 students making the ‘No Sew Bags’

T-shirt donations can be brought into school to your child’s class. Thank you for your support.

Stephen Zamroz

Year 5 Teacher and WEN contact teacher