Green Team

Each year the school selects students to participate in the Green Team. In 2011 the Green Team went to CERES and were inspired to  challenge grades to investigate a particular aspect of sustainable living as a whole focus. The challenges were as follows:

Preps and Grade One - We want you to find out as much as you can about raising chooks. What do you need to keep them happy and healthy?
We also want you to find out about how to have healthy soil for our garden beds that will give plants the nutrients that they need to grow really well.

Grade Two - We want you to find out about your energy and water usage at home.
We also want you to find out about the waste that is created at home.

Grade Three / Four - We want you to find out about food - How much energy is needed to produce different foods, how do farming practices and food production impact on our environment? What is the food chain and what happens if something effects it?
We also want you to find out about packaging of different foods and what it does to our environment.

Grade Four / Five - we want you to research waste and how it affects our environment. This could include household waste and industrial waste.
We also want you to find out about causes of pollution and what needs to be done to address this problem.

Grade Five / Six - We want you to research energy. This may include finding out about non-renewable and renewable energy sources.
We would also like you to find out about how various practices in our daily life impact on the amount of energy that is used.

This year's (2013) Green Team has been combined with the School Representative Council (SRC). It is the first time that we have had members from all year levels participating in the Green Team. The team will be involved in promoting sustainability through out the school and are planning some whole school activities to do in term 4. The senior members of the team are also trained to enter data into the SETS program to monitor the schools resource usage.