Our School Council has supported the move to reduce paper use at our school by publishing our newsletter online. This is a very big move as our school community is very reliant on this weekly communication and a change in how they get their information is something that we understand may cause some concern. However we have received a fantastic response with almost all of the school signing up for the newsletter to be emailed.
Our newsletter continues to be published on our school website at www.poowongcs.vic.edu.au
Feel free to view our newsletter online or request an email version from the school.
By making our newsletter we will approximately save 21 reams of paper per year (based on a 3 double side page newsletter). That is a huge savings to the school and the environment.
Thursday 13 February 2014
Energetic Start to the Year
Static Electricity! Has it really been that long. It seems like only yesterday that I wrote about the consortium visiting our school and here we are at the end of the 3rd week back in 2014. Where did that time go?
Since then we have received some very exciting news......... but I am going to keep you in suspense over that. In the near future you will be able to share in the celebrations of our good news.
This year we are working on the AuSSIVic ResourceSmart Energy Module and hope to have that completed by the end of the year. Fortunately we are already well on our way as we had our energy audit completed at the end of last year. We are just waiting for the report to come back from the auditor so that we can start spending the Energy Grant money we received.
Our very first PD for the year was with Heidi Hamm our ResourceSmart Facilitator. Heidi will be guiding us through the Energy Module, sharing with us her wealth of knowledge in this area. On the same day we also held a parent information session. Although attendance was low the parents that did attend were very interested and also got involved in discussions about how we can increase parent involvement.
As of today one action from our PD was implement a section in the newsletter on energy saving tips. These ECO tips will be published weekly providing short and easy suggestions for making our whole community more sustainable. If you have any tips that you would like to contribute, please email me at horton.kenneth.j@edumail.vic.gov.au .
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