Sustainability at TCC
Acknowledging World Environment Day
Monday 5 June 2023 marked World Environment Day, a special event acknowledged around the world that encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment. This year’s theme was ‘Solutions to plastic pollution’ and served as a reminder that people’s actions on plastic pollution matter.Throughout the week, Trinity celebrated our opportunities to ‘be the solution’, with activities and actions centered around encouraging less waste and better care for our environment. There were opportunities for all year levels with competitions, excursions, seed-planting, art creation, a documentary screening and of course our termly Nude Food Day complete with live music.
Sarah Glennen
Sustainability Coordinator
Junklandia performance
Our Year 7’s students attended the recycling-theatre performance of ‘Junklandia’, which incorporates circus, dance, comedy, body percussion and is founded by the belief that that there is too much junk in the world and not enough music. The performance followed the journey of two characters from another planet who showed examples of what is needed for us ‘Earthlings’ to avoid, separate, and recycle waste to help our endangered earth, while incorporating talented rhythmical performances throughout. At the completion of the event all attendees joined in a large-scale beat, performing music together from creatively recycled instruments. Year 7 Music classes were inspired by the Junklandia performance to create their own unique instruments from ‘junk’ or materials that would have otherwise been ‘thrown away’. Small groups rose to the challenge of creating their own rhythm or song using their new instruments and performed for their classmates. On Friday students were invited at Break 1 to a screening of ‘Regenerating Australia’; a short film based on the hopes and dreams of Australians for a fairer, cleaner, regenerative and therefore more sustainable future. To cap off the week, our prize-winning entries were announced. ‘Sally the Whale’, a paper mâché whale choking on the plastics that pollute our oceans, complete with handprint details to represent that this harm is being caused by human hands, won first prize. And a set of miniature arcade games created by recycling materials into new products won a very special mention.
Sarah Glennen
Sustainability Coordinator
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