ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING

We are not passengers on Spaceship Earth
We are the Crew
It’s time we took our responsibilities seriously
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At Aldgate there is a whole school commitment to environmental care and action. The school’s focus on Values and Futures Education is about ‘being’ rather than simply ‘doing’.

Our program is informed by the State of the Environment Report and the SACSA Framework. It runs in classrooms as well as through electives each week. Our program is a Sustainable School model where we are moving from environmental education to education for sustainability. We are all learning together about more sustainable lifestyles through simple, everyday changes that make a real difference. 

The four strands are: air/energy, water, resource use/waste management, and biodiversity.

A small snapshot of our activities include: propagation and planting for the Valley of the Bandicoots project and Our Patch, propagating and planting ‘no-water’ gardens, rearing biological control agents with Weed Warriors, making bird boxes, solar activities, silk screening calico bags, two litter free food days each week, composting or worm farming our food scraps, and actively reducing our paper, water and energy consumption.