The Green Team

Alex Baxter & Elise Hawkins

Sustainability Team 

2019 

This year has been a huge one for Sustainability at Kingswood Primary School. Here's just a few of our highlights: 

• Green Team run completely by the Grade 6 Environment Leaders 
• Resource Smart Waste Star achieved (#3 of 5)
• Huge steps been made towards the Resource Smart Biodiversity Star 
• Vertical garden installation 
• Kingswood Environment Week was a huge success with all year levels participating in environmental activities 
• Bottle cap and bread tag collection began for making prosthetic limbs and wheelchairs 
• Each classroom had their own 'Pollution Patrol' monitors who managed sustainability within their classrooms 
• Clean Up Australia Day at Braeside Park had the biggest turn out of Kingswood families so far 
• Braeside Park night walk had a humongous turnout of over 100 people from Kingswood! 
• Soft plastics collected weekly by each class on a rotational basis 
• Decorated nest boxes installed around the school
• Chairs purchased from Replas which saved 450kg of soft plastics from going to landfill
• Voted as a finalist for the Leader Local Grants 
• A group of Grade 5's attended the Kids Teaching Kids Conference around Sustainability 
• Four Grade 5 girls took over the responsibility of entering the bills data onto Resource Smart Schools webpage 
• The SAKG program has continued so beautifully with Sonia and Liz running an amazing program in the kitchen and garden 
• Book drive to ensure old books were re-homed within our classrooms rather than ending up in landfill
• Used student stationary collected by a variety of parents to take overseas for donation at a number of schools in need (Thank you to Yushitha Samarakoon, Alejandra Quintero-Serrano, Matt Collins and Indunil Weeraratna!)
• Staff classroom resources donated to other staff members before being offered to the wider school community to avoid being placed in landfill

As Elise and I are both going travelling next year we would like to take this opportunity to thank the Kingswood community for being so supportive over the past 5 years with our passion to make Kingswood Primary School as sustainable as it can be. It's a huge group effort and we are excited to announce that a new passionate team of teachers will be taking over from us next year to continue the journey!