Students and teachers from nine senior schools have visited two of the Territory’s ‘greenest’ schools this week to see first-hand how to make their own school environments innovative and sustainable.
The 50 students and teachers took part in the Actsmart Eco Tour to Merici College and Daramalan College. They also heard from other students at Telopea Park School and St Francis Xavier College about their environmental projects.
Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Shane Rattenbury said the Actsmart Schools Eco Tour enables students to teach other students how to get their schools involved in taking action for the environment.
“Students at the two host schools acted as tour guides to share brilliant examples of school environmental initiatives,” Mr Rattenbury said.
“This included market gardens, recycling and organics collection, energy saving messages and student green events,” he said.
“Teachers were also given opportunities to learn about integrating sustainability into their classroom activities.”
He said both Merici and Daramalan were leading Actsmart schools, celebrated for embracing sustainability and making it a focus within their grounds and the curriculum.
“Merici College has implemented many environmental initiatives including providing non-packaged lunches served on reusable plates and cutlery at the school canteen, reducing the volume of waste going to landfill,” Mr Rattenbury said.
“Daramalan College highlighted how to use a waste audit to drive whole school behaviour change.”
