Sustainability at Kerrimuir

 

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Kerrimuir Primary School Weekly Environment/Sustainability Newsletter for all students & families.

 

 

Kerrimuir prides itself on our work towards becoming increasingly sustainable. Over the last year or so, we have committed to the following:

 

$15,000 was spent on 2 large water tanks to flush the children’s toilets

 

Using our older water tank to water our vegetable garden and keep our chickens watered (we are going to be building this ‘green’ space at Kerrimuir in Term 3, 2009)

 

 

$50,000 worth of solar panels to support lessening green house gasses; we are currently working on collecting data on our use of electricity for the students to follow our progress

 

 

Our Bokashi Bucket collects staff and children’s food scraps to create an excellent liquid fertilizer (soon to be used on our vegetable garden)

 

Friday Fruit happens everyday for Kerrimuir children and we collect the scraps to add to our BB

 

The large black bins near the Library collect old fluorescent tubes for recycling

 

The gardens adjacent to Molbray Street have been replanted with Australian natives – many thanks to the Parent Gardening group for this superb work

 

 

Each class studies ‘Sustainability’ over a two year period – Grades 5 and 6 will be focussing on this important area in Term 3, 2009

 

The teachers have attended two Professional Development sessions with CERES to ensure we are doing all we can to reduce, reuse and recycle!

 

 

Junior School Council put tubs under all the drink fountains to collect the water for our gardens

 

 

We run a Rubbish Free Lunch Day every year – cutting down on unnecessary cling film and paper products is important

 

 

We collect and send all our paper waste to the recycler each term

 

We have been a part of SWEP – Schools Water Efficiency Program which told us all we needed to do was to add flow control valves. We did this in April!