Winters Flat Sustainability 5 Star Certification – Staff & Parent Ideas:
BIODIVISITY landcare, habitat, ecology and school grounds
Operations
Curriculum
Community
In place now
Bird boxes Native Veg
SAKP
Frog pond
Chooks
Compost
Solar panels
Wildlife corridors
Focus on fungi
Soil life cycle
Living compost
National tree day
Bush tucker (understanding)
Stephanine Alexander – cooking
and gardening
Flatchat
Newspaper
Buda festival
CSF
Campbells Creek Landcare
group
Coliban Water
Goals for
future
Improve native vegetation (esp
middle and ground story)
Adopt and improve creek – also
use valuable resource
More habitat for a range of
native species e.g. mammal
boxes, rock gardens, improve
frog pond, increase flowering
plants
Whole school planner
Audits, baseline data and
future
Landcare
Parent expertise
Working bees for habitat
development
Action
Team
ENERGY
Conservation, efficiency, greenhouse reduction and air quality
Operations
In place now
Solar panels
Sensors in Creekview
Energy efficient lights and a
policy of lights off
Water collection - tanks
Goals for future Data entry of school bills
Energy Class monitors
Signs on all lights about usage
of lights
Stand by switches – ‘not to be
used’
Unplug and turn off appliances
– weekend, holidays
Encourage sensible dress
Energy audit
Introduce green energy supply
Monitor efficiency of temp
sensors
Curriculum
Community
Greenhouse effect
Architecture
Students signs – on/off
Target plan whole school
plan
Data used in classrooms
Ceiling fans switch for winter
Origin account
Check solar panels
Gas heating
Solar panels
Link different forms of energy
used – now / past
Consider amount of energy used
in making products – plastics
Data in flatchat
Encourage car pooling,
walking school buses, walking
and riding to school
Action
Team
WASTE
Green purchasing, zero waste and litter
Operations
Curriculum
In place now
Compost bins
Encouraged no package food
outside
SAKG program
Caring for’s…
Goals for
future
(could take 5
years to
achieve)
Zero waste
3 bin system in each classroom –
Recycling/Reuse, Compost and
rubbish
Reduce Photocopying incentives
Recycling paper used
Data collected
Classes responsible for areas of
school – rewards given
Staff and JSC seen to pick up
rubbish, not used as a
punishment but supporting
schools sustainability policy.
Smaller rubbish bins - reduce
rubbish bins
Monitor recycling – look to
reduce
Waste trailer come to school
Trip to local tip
Set students to make signs,
competition, assembly
Follow the waste trial
Measure waste – rubbish, power,
material things, sports
equipment
Whole school planner
Community
FlatChat
Graphs from SETS
Share what students are
working on
Action
Team
WATER
Conservation, storm water, river health
Operations
In place now
Water tanks
Frog pond
Goals for
future
Rain gauge
Drip system for watering using
water tanks
Use rainwater for toilet
flushing
Evaporative cooler in Artroom
Dripping taps fixed
Curriculum
Students collect data
History of rain in local area
Desalination
Collecting water – now / past
Water cycle
Recycling water
Water table
Climate appropriate planting,
food production, irrigation
Water levels rising
River health
Water quality
Community
Present data in Flatchat
Action
Team
Senior school
kids
Student make
signs
Check washing
machines/dish
washer
Eco drip
system in
garden
SETS
LEADERSHIP Providing support to other schools and community. Daily operations. Sustainability in school
culture.
Operations
In place now
Goals for
future
Curriculum
Community
Action
Team