OLDMEAD
PRIMARY
Australia
SCHOOL
Our Journey to Save
the World
We are located in State,
Country. Our School's
mission is to help every
living organism on Earth
have a bright and safe
future!
LARISSA
TRISTAN
SEBASTIAN
PAISLEY
Group Leader
Researcher
Resource
Collector
Speaker
The Grade five students at Oldmead
Primary School have decided that they
were going to attempt to achieve all 17
of the sustainability goals for the world
alongside the United Nations. They
understood that there are significant
issues facing the future of our planet
and they wanted to do something
about it and all in 10 weeks!
Here's Their Story
OUR FIRST GOAL
To put together a team of people
that felt the same way about the
problems the world was facing!
OUR SECOND GOAL
To set clear goals for our community to
achieve and to use our voice to get as
many people involved as possible.
THIRD GOAL
To build a community of people who care
about the environment and all of the
living beings on this planet!
WRITING TO THE
MINISTER
We decided
to write a
letter to the minister of
education to invite him to
our school. We wanted to
talk about our feelings
regarding educational
standards in rural areas of
our country.
THE RESULT
The minister for education
turned up at our school and
held a discussion with the
families regarding how we can
help communities less
fortunate than ours. The result
was that he promised to
increase funding to schools in
rural areas to bridge the gap
NO MEAT
Each
and every
THURSDAY
Thursday our whole
school attempts to
minimise the amount
of meat they
consume. This action
limits the amount of
greenhouse gasses
that enter the
atmosphere and fights
WALK TO
SCHOOL
Every
student walks to
WEDNESDAY
school on
Wednesdays. As we
know cars and buses
cause a lot of pollution.
We have started a
'walking and talking
club' and some families
are even walking to
COMMUNITY
FOOD BANK
Families in our
community have decided
that each Sunday
evening, they will take a
look in your fridge and
any food that is about to
expire will be collected
and taken to the local
food bank to feed the
hungry and homelsss
'I never realised how powerful our
students voice was until I saw them
drive this kind of change in our
community'
'To see the children drive change like this
is remarkable, this community will never
be the same again.'
'The future of our children is our
responsibility and this change was
one we all needed!'
THE FUTURE
OF OLD MEAD
As a school we managed to achieve all of the
goals we set our community and we are very
happy about the outcome!
Our community will
continue to do our
best to make the
world a better place
for everyone who
lives on Earth
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS
FOR US?