SUSTAINABILITY @ OLHC
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Our Lady Help of Christians primary school is a Resource Smart School.
This means that we have begun a whole school community journey to become a 5 STAR environmentally sustainable school. We hope to minimise our waste and set systems in place to manage our energy and water use responsibly. We truly value the biodiversity on the planet and hope to increase it on our school grounds. |
Kids teaching Kids
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This year our school continued our representation at the annual Kids Teaching Kids
conference .Ten year three/four students joined other teams from other schools in the region running a workshop inspired by the conference theme " Our Changing Planet ."
Our workshop was titled "Nurture Nature". focusing on the importance of biodiversity and how we should value all life forms on the earth.
Activities we led were about the forest, the basic needs of all life and the water cycle - a vital cycle that reminds us of the need to keep our water catchments healthy and our air clean.
We joined 125,000 other students educating others across Victoria on the day aiming to raise awareness for the need to care for our natural environment and its resources now and for the future.
Well done to our 2017 Kids Teaching Kids team !!!
conference .Ten year three/four students joined other teams from other schools in the region running a workshop inspired by the conference theme " Our Changing Planet ."
Our workshop was titled "Nurture Nature". focusing on the importance of biodiversity and how we should value all life forms on the earth.
Activities we led were about the forest, the basic needs of all life and the water cycle - a vital cycle that reminds us of the need to keep our water catchments healthy and our air clean.
We joined 125,000 other students educating others across Victoria on the day aiming to raise awareness for the need to care for our natural environment and its resources now and for the future.
Well done to our 2017 Kids Teaching Kids team !!!
Tree Day @ OLHC
Planet Ark celebrated 21 years of National Tree Day and Schools Tree Day - Australia's largest community tree-planting and nature care event. Proudly sponsored by Toyota Australia, Tree Day is an opportunity to do something positive for your local environment and community and to reconnect with nature. National Tree Day started in 1996 and since then more than 3.8 million people have planted 23 million trees and plants and it's still growing. July 26, 2013
Our Schools Tree Day activities this year have involved our entire school community !
Our student buddies have participated in:
- Creating insect houses that will be attached to become insect hotels.
- Rolling Pine cones into bird seed to make bird feeders.
- Constructing nesting boxes with Bunnings Warrnambool staff.
- Planting 600 native seedlings with Wannon Water staff on the sand dunes near Granny’s Grave.
What a sensational day !!!!
Our student eco teams have also agreed on what will be our school pledge for biodiversity.
Our pledge at OLHC is to increase biodiversity and create habitats on our school grounds for local wildlife and raise an awareness to protect and appreciate the natural world …
Why not do a bird feeder walk around the school ????
Keep your eye out for native birds ...
Our Schools Tree Day activities this year have involved our entire school community !
Our student buddies have participated in:
- Creating insect houses that will be attached to become insect hotels.
- Rolling Pine cones into bird seed to make bird feeders.
- Constructing nesting boxes with Bunnings Warrnambool staff.
- Planting 600 native seedlings with Wannon Water staff on the sand dunes near Granny’s Grave.
What a sensational day !!!!
Our student eco teams have also agreed on what will be our school pledge for biodiversity.
Our pledge at OLHC is to increase biodiversity and create habitats on our school grounds for local wildlife and raise an awareness to protect and appreciate the natural world …
Why not do a bird feeder walk around the school ????
Keep your eye out for native birds ...
SCRAP ‘N’ SNIFF Eco Team/Gardening Club Excursion
Scrap’n’Sniff
Gardening Club Excursion
Our school Gardening Club visited the Richardson Family’s farm today.
We watched their Burke breed pigs help us eat our school food scraps that we put into our green waste bins.
Whilst we were there we reflected on our food scrap journey by playing a food web game.
Finally we tasted “prosciutto”. A meat we can eat that comes from farmed pigs.
more photos to come
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Clean Up Australia Day 2017
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Our Lady Help Of Christians Primary School - East Warrnambool has been really enthusiastic at their efforts with their current studies of environmental sustainability and being a Resource Smart School. They are also making enthusiastic efforts at sorting their rubbish !
What we do with our rubbish really matters .
Therefore our participation in the 2017 Schools Clean Up Day has been a WHOLE SCHOOL
EFFORT - both on our school grounds by our Foundation and Year One/Two classes AND locally
from the Hopkins River Mouth towards Granny's Grave and towards Logan's Beach with our years
3-6 classes.
COME ON AUSTRALIA - Lets Go !!!!
What we do with our rubbish really matters .
Therefore our participation in the 2017 Schools Clean Up Day has been a WHOLE SCHOOL
EFFORT - both on our school grounds by our Foundation and Year One/Two classes AND locally
from the Hopkins River Mouth towards Granny's Grave and towards Logan's Beach with our years
3-6 classes.
COME ON AUSTRALIA - Lets Go !!!!
OLHC - A CARBON FRIENDLY SCHOOL
OLHC - A CARBON FRIENDLY SCHOOL
Our school has conducted a whole school energy audit designed by Cool Australia.
The process of conducting an energy audit has certainly raised awareness by all members of our school community.
As a result our ECO student team - along with conversations with staff have come up with a "switch off regime " that will involve us all reaching a basic understanding of the carbon cycle and the appreciation of the GOOD carbon that we need to look after on the planet - which includes ourselves. Beginning from 2017 each classroom will have clay earth credits that all members will be required to look after IN A JAR .
HOW YOU MAY ASK ?
By consistently using their energy use wisely - switching off all power appliances when not in use . Particularly during lunch play times and at the
end of the day .Random checks will take place by the year 5/6 Eco Stewardship group and credits will turn into debits in a Debit jar if appliances are left on. If all earth credits are kept in the Credit jar for an extended period of time that class will be awarded a plant to create a food forest in our school.We will also conduct a seasonal light audit with our school lux meter .
That will also help us to be aware of the sufficient light we need to read and write throughout the day at various times of the year . Electric lighting vs natural lighting.We even have thermometers to help us keep the heat and cooling temperatures at acceptable standards . We also plan to have a LAYER UPDAY in Winter to raise more awareness of how we can conserve our energy use.
ENERGY SAVING TIPS in our ECO TIP section of our school newsletter will
also be a regular thing . Here is one ....
Is the sun out? It's not hot? Open your blinds and switch off your lights. A short CARBON cycle clip at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFE9o-c_pKg
Our school has conducted a whole school energy audit designed by Cool Australia.
The process of conducting an energy audit has certainly raised awareness by all members of our school community.
As a result our ECO student team - along with conversations with staff have come up with a "switch off regime " that will involve us all reaching a basic understanding of the carbon cycle and the appreciation of the GOOD carbon that we need to look after on the planet - which includes ourselves. Beginning from 2017 each classroom will have clay earth credits that all members will be required to look after IN A JAR .
HOW YOU MAY ASK ?
By consistently using their energy use wisely - switching off all power appliances when not in use . Particularly during lunch play times and at the
end of the day .Random checks will take place by the year 5/6 Eco Stewardship group and credits will turn into debits in a Debit jar if appliances are left on. If all earth credits are kept in the Credit jar for an extended period of time that class will be awarded a plant to create a food forest in our school.We will also conduct a seasonal light audit with our school lux meter .
That will also help us to be aware of the sufficient light we need to read and write throughout the day at various times of the year . Electric lighting vs natural lighting.We even have thermometers to help us keep the heat and cooling temperatures at acceptable standards . We also plan to have a LAYER UPDAY in Winter to raise more awareness of how we can conserve our energy use.
ENERGY SAVING TIPS in our ECO TIP section of our school newsletter will
also be a regular thing . Here is one ....
Is the sun out? It's not hot? Open your blinds and switch off your lights. A short CARBON cycle clip at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFE9o-c_pKg
Litter Audit by Grades 3/4
Click on our PowerPoint to see some of the work we have done with our recent litter audit
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ECO TEAM MURAL - TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Unveiled Friday 22nd July, 2016
We would like to acknowledge the time taken by Noel Anderson - our visiting school maintenance person and Mr Kilpatrick our Physical Education teacher for their support in helping us to complete the mural.
We were honoured that Alexander Steel 5/6S and Malachai Smits 3/4D accepted our invitation to perform a musical response to the mural when it was unveiled.
Thank you Alex and Malachai . Alex’ composition was titled The River. Malachai’s was titled Blackbird by the Beatles.
It is with our great pleasure and excitement that we present to you our school community - a visual reminder of how -
Together we can make a difference to care for our natural resources .
Together we can make a difference to all life on the planet.
Our mural marks our ResourceSmart School journey together to becoming really smart at saving energy , water , caring for biodiversity. - that’s every living thing that depends on each other .
We also want to cut back on our waste so that the air we breathe and the land we live on will always be good enough for us all to live happily and healthy.
Our school eco team is really keen to explore together - how important it is to care for the earth that is a gift to all of us.
Layla Wright 3/4I
Samuel Lukeis 3/4I
Ryan Barnes 3/4M
Jude Trewin 3/4S
Lilly-Rose McGrath 3/4S
Dylan McGinness 3/4D
Jackson Dancey 3/4D
Mrs Anna Schlooz
We would like to acknowledge the time taken by Noel Anderson - our visiting school maintenance person and Mr Kilpatrick our Physical Education teacher for their support in helping us to complete the mural.
We were honoured that Alexander Steel 5/6S and Malachai Smits 3/4D accepted our invitation to perform a musical response to the mural when it was unveiled.
Thank you Alex and Malachai . Alex’ composition was titled The River. Malachai’s was titled Blackbird by the Beatles.
It is with our great pleasure and excitement that we present to you our school community - a visual reminder of how -
Together we can make a difference to care for our natural resources .
Together we can make a difference to all life on the planet.
Our mural marks our ResourceSmart School journey together to becoming really smart at saving energy , water , caring for biodiversity. - that’s every living thing that depends on each other .
We also want to cut back on our waste so that the air we breathe and the land we live on will always be good enough for us all to live happily and healthy.
Our school eco team is really keen to explore together - how important it is to care for the earth that is a gift to all of us.
Layla Wright 3/4I
Samuel Lukeis 3/4I
Ryan Barnes 3/4M
Jude Trewin 3/4S
Lilly-Rose McGrath 3/4S
Dylan McGinness 3/4D
Jackson Dancey 3/4D
Mrs Anna Schlooz
Our Lady Help Of Christians Primary School - East Warrnambool has been really enthusiastic at their efforts with their current studies of environmental sustainability and being a Resource Smart School. They are also making enthusiastic efforts at sorting their rubbish !
As a result the school community has been successful at receiving a waste grant from the Warrnambool City Council to assist the school to set up a new waste management system.
We realise that for the waste system to be effective we each need to do our bit and make a conscious effort to regularly communicate the benefits and the challenges of reducing, recycling and re - using waste.
We also have a large 3 section compost where we collect our green waste . It regularly produces rich soil that we regularly add to our vegetable and fruit garden.Our schools efforts in participating in the 2016 Schools Clean Up Day also marks the launch of our Waste Wise Indicator which our school student Eco team will kick off this week.
The indicator will help us keep track on how we are not only managing our waste but also to
encourage us to come up with ways that we can minimise our waste for our health and well being.
What we do with our rubbish really matters .
Therefore our participation in the 2016 Schools Clean Up Day has been a WHOLE SCHOOL
EFFORT - both on our school grounds by our Foundation and Year One/Two classes AND locally
from the Hopkins River Mouth towards Granny's Grave and towards Logan's Beach with our years
3-6 classes.
COME ON AUSTRALIA - Lets Go !!!!
As a result the school community has been successful at receiving a waste grant from the Warrnambool City Council to assist the school to set up a new waste management system.
We realise that for the waste system to be effective we each need to do our bit and make a conscious effort to regularly communicate the benefits and the challenges of reducing, recycling and re - using waste.
We also have a large 3 section compost where we collect our green waste . It regularly produces rich soil that we regularly add to our vegetable and fruit garden.Our schools efforts in participating in the 2016 Schools Clean Up Day also marks the launch of our Waste Wise Indicator which our school student Eco team will kick off this week.
The indicator will help us keep track on how we are not only managing our waste but also to
encourage us to come up with ways that we can minimise our waste for our health and well being.
What we do with our rubbish really matters .
Therefore our participation in the 2016 Schools Clean Up Day has been a WHOLE SCHOOL
EFFORT - both on our school grounds by our Foundation and Year One/Two classes AND locally
from the Hopkins River Mouth towards Granny's Grave and towards Logan's Beach with our years
3-6 classes.
COME ON AUSTRALIA - Lets Go !!!!