St Hilda’s Junior School in Mosman Park has joined the Big Switch Experiment to develop a range of sustainability activities for the year. Already in 2009 the school has set up a student Sustainability Ambassadors Committee which has started meeting to make decisions about the school and sustainability programs.
In March the school launched their program which was celebrated as part of National Harmony Day with the Wesley ‘Moodijt’ Dancers performing for the whole school. The ceremony celebrated our Indigenous heritage with the boys performing many dances about local native animals. After the celebration the girls took part in a symbolic activity at a local park, where they officially adopted on the day. They agreed to take care of the plants and the native animals in the area and will work with the Town of Mosman Park and Millennium Kids to create a planting program at the park.
The school has also made their weekly newsletter electronic and have started a guest speaker program, where the local IGA owner Phil Buzzard talked about his NO PLASTIC BAG campaign for his local shops in Cottesloe and Mosman Park.
The school has also made their weekly newsletter electronic and have started a guest speaker program, where the local IGA owner Phil Buzzard talked about his NO PLASTIC BAG campaign for his local shops in Cottesloe and Mosman Park.
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Our school is doing its best to help stop global warming. The school has got 12 solar panels on the roof. Its also got a kitchen garden. Our class has got envolved in quite a bit of this. In the morning we are able to help the gardener pick the Tomatoes and Lettuce. This stuff goes to the school canteen. Also, our class has recently been making compost with my Mum. We had to mix sheep manure with grass clippings and hay. We shaped it into a darlic, put a hole in the middle and watered it then we waited to see what would happen. After a day or two we went out with my Mum again to check on the compost. We put our hand in the hole and it was quite hot. Mum explained that the bacteria had grown inside and so had generated heat. Then we had to turn it over to keep our bacteria growing. We called them our pets. Last year our class did a rubbish audit. We had to sort throught the rubbish bins and seperate the recyclables from the rubbish and try and figre out how much rubbish the school uses. No, it wasn't gross! I hope you have learned a little bit about the school and what it is doing to help stop climate change. I'm sure you got something out of this!
Julian Anderson Year 4
Demark Primary School
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