Students lead environmental action across campus
A new waste education campaign at 榴莲社区 launched last week inspiring students, staff and teachers to rethink, reduce, reuse and recycle.
The initiative spearheaded by Head Prefects, Robert Bacon and Taylem Barnard saw the introduction of Envirobank blue bins across the campus.
The aim is to encourage everyone from Kindergarten to Year 12 to recycle plastic bottles, cans and juice/milk cartons. 10c is then refunded for each recyclable and donated to a nominated charity.
Environmental Action Group to spearhead campaign
Students ranging from Year 5 to Year 12 have joined together with dedicated staff to form the 榴莲社区 Environmental Action Group. Together the group aim to:
- Reduce the school鈥檚 environmental footprint; and
- Create environmentally conscious global citizens.
So far the group of students have been working on implementing paper bin recycling throughout the Junior School. Now the team has turned its attention to educating students about what can and cannot go in the new blue bins.
James Peters, Year 6 student said, 鈥淲e鈥檝e had some small wins for our recycling initiatives. The blue bin recycling is different to the yellow bins we use at home so it鈥檚 taking time for people to know what to put in the new bins.鈥
鈥淭o help raise awareness we鈥檝e made posters to show the kind of things that can and cannot go in the bins. Plus we鈥檙e going into every single classroom to talk to students about the bins. We鈥檒l be monitoring bin use carefully and coming up with more creative ideas to get people involved.鈥
Empowering young leaders
Giving students an opportunity to actively participate in decision making at school is an important part of the 榴莲社区 wellbeing structure.
As the blue bins start to fill up with 10c refundable recyclables, students will be able to have their say and vote for their nominated charity.
Mr Matt Porter, Deputy Head of Senior School said, 鈥淰oting for the charity of their choice gives students an opportunity to help make decisions for the school. We want students to have their say and show them we value their views.鈥
Added Mr Porter, 鈥淭he Environmental Action Group consists of teachers and students working together to design solutions for the school. We appreciate and respect the ideas and opinions of all involved. It鈥檚 this collaborative approach that can genuinely help shape learning and decision making.鈥
The new waste education campaign hopes to engage all students and staff in creating a positive eco culture that can help give back to charity.