STEM News

2026 Semester 1 Sustainability and Environment.

Congratulations!

Our recycling and composting are still making a difference to our waste disposal costs by reducing our landfill. 

This year we have met our targets for Greenwaste Recycling through our classroom and eating area bins. 

CHPS is registered with the CDS and we are recycling 98% of the drink containers sold at the canteen, returning $445.90 to the sustainability budget this financial year.

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According to our waste survey, there is still difficulty among students knowing what can be recycled. Next term we will run a competition to design new stickers and posters for our bins, to make it easier to sort what goes where.

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WORKING BEE

CHAPs has put out a notice to our school community looking for volunteers to help on the last weekend of the school holidays, the 11th and 12th of July, 10am - 3pm.

Enter through Gate D and the gates to the farm, near the 3-4 playground. 

Goals:

• Building a pergola with seating and potting benches in the vegetable garden.
• Building the foundation and reinstalling the posts for the new fence around the Asian garden. 
• BYO tools would be much appreciated for cutting and drilling timber, grinding bolts from old post stirrups and drilling new holes into the concrete to reset the post.
• Painting
• Garden tools and paint brushes etc we have

Thanks everyone - Steve Crook