Last week, hundreds of red wiggler worms arrived at Winston Churchill Public School. Their arrival was long-awaited! The school’s Eco-Club had been preparing “bedding” for the worms’ future homes. Clara, a grade 3 member of the Eco-Club loved making the bedding and she shared her favourite part of creating the bedding from recycled materials, " it was good because I got to do it with a group".
The school's Grade 5/6 classes had been involved too, working as construction engineers, building the wooden boxes that will house these wigglers! One of these construction engineers, Britton, from Ms. Koebel's 5/6 class is looking forward to science and eco-experiments with the worms and shared excitement about "getting involved with something happening that will be used at the school later". These worms will continue to be members of this school's classrooms for years to come!
Each classroom at the school received a worm box and around 100 red wigglers. Teachers will use these new friends to teach science curriculum – and in turn, these worms will vermicompost - decomposing the food and paper waste in the classroom into nutrient-rich dirt!
Learn more about the Faculty of Education instructors Chris Carlton and Dr. Ian Matheson leading this worm-derful new project and its connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals!
Congrats to Ian, Chris, the Box of Life team, and the community at Winston Churchill School!
