The Bush Fire Brigade conducting
a "controlled burn"

Part of our Bushland was burned in a "controlled burn" in April 1996.
3M and 3S went on an excursion together through this area in November, 1996, to find out whether the bush was regenerating.

Visit our Bushfire page to see how the Australian Bushland regenerates.

Mrs Hinton's Science classes are displaying the Bushflowers of our school bushland each month. We think there might be some trees in flower every month of the year but we are finding that out as we go. Most of the Wattles were flowering in August (Winter) but we didn't start this project until the middle of September, 1996.

Flannel flowers

Cockatoo

Lorikeets

3S have been observing and asking other children to observe the birds, reptiles, animals, spiders and insects in our school bushland and playgrounds and have been writing reports about them.

Long necked turtle.
Possum

Angophora costata fruit

This picture shows the fruit of the Angophora costata tree.

We have collected fruit from many of the trees in our bushland.

We are propagating these trees to plant in areas of our bushland where the activities of people have disturbed the natural growth.

If even half of the seeds that come from the fruits grow into trees there will be hundreds more trees in our school.

We have a lot of work to do to clear the lantana and other weeds from the area where we will plant the trees.

In the photo, you can see Sally Fisher using a long handled gripper and clipper to collect Brown Stringybark (Eucalyptus capitellata) seeds from high in the tree at the edge of our oval.

Sally Fisher collecting fruit

Acacia terminalis sounds
- clacking the seed pods together

We have been making musical instruments from materials collected in the bush. We have mainly used materials that have fallen from the trees except for some whistles we made from green leaves.
During our lunchtimes, we often make things from bush materials. It's great fun.
You can read about our Pickletown or have a look at some of our Bush Art.