We think that Eco Club is the best after school activity.This year we have been planting flowers and vegetables, for example, tomatoes, peppers, curly parsley, oregano, and marigolds, violas, stock and milk weed. Eco club is every Thursday.It gives us community hours too. Eco Club is an excellent activity to do. Ms De Silva teaches us about how to garden and about the many types of flowers and vegetables that exist.We are getting ready for the Agricultural Show in April.We are putting in a variety of plants in the Show, for example, we are putting in model gardens in aluminium pie plates and plants in milk cartons.We will be striving to get first or second place.We are also putting in other plants we’ve grown, and we feel that we have been doing an excellent job with our garden.There are other groups putting creations in the Agricultural Show.They are students taking Design and Technology (DT). They will be putting in kites and other wood work.Students from Family Studies are going to make cookies and cakes.We have problems with our garden at Clearwater Middle School because there are mischievous, feral chickens that keep pecking at the flowers and vegetables.Yes, the chickens eat the flowers too.But our school has a plan to solve this problem; and to give and get some benefits from the chickens as well.We are building a chicken coop! When the chickens get caught we will not have any more problems with our flowers and vegetables being destroyed.Please stand by for more news on our animal welfare project in the coming months.