St Ives Park has an Environment committee whose responsibility is to develop and maintain the School Environmental Management Plan (SEMP).
The committee's other initiatives also include organising:
- composting of food scraps;
- sustaining the eco-garden and vegetable garden;
- caring for the animals (i.e. chickens, rabbits and worms) in our eco-garden;
- water and recycling audits.
Our Environment committee and volunteers work closely with the S.R.C.* and P&C** to arrange environmental fundraisers, events such as 'Clean Up Australia Day', and maintain awareness of routines such as our 'Crunch & Sip' (i.e. morning fruit break) initiative.
School environmental management plans work across the key learning areas of the curriculum and the whole school community.
We start with local sustainability and over time develop student understanding of how their work contributes globally.
Students and staff manage, observe and monitor our school's resources, waste and physical surroundings, then take on activities to protect and improve our school and the local environment.
Your child will develop an understanding about:
- the relationship between human activities and natural systems
- sustainable management of the earth's resources
- the inter-related nature of processes in the natural environment
We encourage you to support your child's 'going green' activities, and to help them to learn to care for the environment as part of their everyday lives.
* S.R.C. = Student Representative Council
** P&C = Parents and Community