National Schools Tree Day

School up for the challenge

Friday the 24^th of July was National Schools Tree Day and the students at Poowong Consolidated were up for the challenge of planting some trees to contribute to providing a greener school environment. All students participated in some way. Our prep students planted some new native trees in one of our garden beds and grades one and two planted some larger native trees alongside the running track.

Meanwhile the senior students participated in a National Schools Tree Day Challenge – 12 teams, 12 trees and 1 planet.

Each team was required to work together to produce a poster showing the procedure they would use to plant the tree, document the team’s activity by taking photos and then successfully planting their tree. This combined all of the skills that they have been developing in other subjects like Science and ICT. All students were very enthusiastic and by the end of the session they had all planted their tree. The challenge was developed and supported by Mr Jason Horton a classroom teacher at the school. Jason is very enthusiastic about sustainability at the school and has been a major contributor to the schools achievements in receiving the core module accreditation in the AussiVIC ResourceSmart school sustainability program. He has also been nominated for the ResourceSmart Sustainability Teacher of the Year award. The students often refer to him as Mr Sustainability.