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Sustainability
Sustainability
This year a group of students and Mrs Hough started to plant, grow and distribute to staff fresh produce from their sustainable garden. They have grown radishes, carrots, spinach, silver beet, broad beans, sugar snap peas and potatoes. The students have learnt how to grow mango and avocado plants from seeds. Fortnightly they collect 10c bottles around the school and these are collected each term and taken to the containers for change depots.
This year the team implemented a food scrap collection system in all staff offices and every week these are collected and placed in their composting bins or in their 3 worm farms. Next year their plan is to collect worm tea from their worm farms, grow more fresh produce in their garden, and incorporate more sustainable approaches across the college.
Student counsellors in Years 7 – 12 have now formed a “Sustainability Sub-Committee” and meet weekly to develop leadership skills and discuss strategies, ideas, source resources, organise clean-up days. Sustainability has now become a cross-curricular priority across the College.
Achievements:
Achievements:
- No plastic straws at canteen well before the ban in WA
- Canteen moved to biodegradable packing where possible
- Co-mingle recycling bins in offices
- Fortnightly collection of co-mingle waste
- Recycle bins in the yard
- Students met Damon Gameau “2040 film” at the screening of the film
- After school ‘clean up days’ – well attended
- Battery/mobile phone/paper recycling – several years running
- Stationary and plastic lid/tags recycling
- Sustainable food practices in Home Ec
- Year 8 Project-Based STEM two-week activity exploring sustainability, plastics, pollution, gardening, worm farms, urban heat
- Sustainability hub in Science area: Compost tumblers, Worm farm, and Raised garden beds
- Purchase of the ClimateClever app (subsidised 50% by the City of Joondalup). A school-wide approach to audit and track energy, water and waste consumption in order to reduce costs, develop action plans, improve sustainable practices and reduce carbon footprint.
- ClimateClever App to be used by Business Students in Cert courses.
- Sustainability Sub-Committee students have contacted local government counsellors to seek assistance in securing grants/funds to get more recycling bins into the yard for ‘containers for change’
