Saturday, June 15, 2024

9:50 AM - 10:30 AM

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Overview

Newham Primary School has been a ResourceSmart School for ten years and has achieved 5-star accreditation twice during this time. The school has saved a total of $44,924 across all resources since our baseline in 2014 and planted over 1000 trees on-campus and 300 off-campus. In this session, Newham Primary School will share how the ResourceSmart Schools program has provided a framework for the school to prioritise sustainability principles. We will take a look at how sustainability is explicitly taught as a specialist subject and also integrated into other curriculum areas with whole school planning. We will also explore the role local partnerships have played in providing students with mentoring, support and the opportunity to work on external biodiversity enhancing projects. Through an outdoor education hands-on approach, building knowledge and skill capacity of students through curriculum, and accessing various grants, a small school can achieve significant outcomes in environmental stewardship, resource efficiency and sustainable practices.

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