On August 2nd, 2017 we celebrated National Tree Day at Joyce Avenue Children’s Centre by planting new lemon trees and some beautiful shrubs. Our Kinder and Toddler children had a great time turning the soil, helping to dig the holes, pouring out the mulch and watering in our new plants. Educators also held a short education sessions for the children on why we plant trees and shrubs and how important it is to care for them.
This activity links to Quality Area 3 of the National Quality Standards.
Saving Water is very important. And some ways that Vermont Primary School saves water is by, using water tanks as toilet flushers. And we just did a water audit to see […]
As a component of our Inquiry Sustainability throughline our Middle classes set up a whole school composting programme. They educated other classes on compostable and non-compostable materials and wrote to […]
Our VCAL Urban Farm program has centred around augmenting and improving our campus at number 1 Gleadell St, with emphasis on vegetable gardens and new planted [2014] orchard with miniature and composite fruit trees; we have improved our watering systems .
Shopping predominantly at the supermarket gave me this unsatisfied, nagging feeling as it went against my core values and passion to live sustainably and support local. I decided to investigate what I could purchase online and was pleasantly surprised in what I discovered…
We arrived at the Boroondara Sustainability Awards just before 4pm. Then we found our spot to sit and the host got the awards ceremony started. They showed pictures of each […]