Climate Canons

World Fisheries day

Fishing communities worldwide celebrate this day through rallies, workshops, public meetings, cultural programs, dramas, exhibition, music show, and demonstrations to highlight the importance of maintaining the world's fisheries. The Climate Canons observed this day on Thursday 27 November with lunchtime activities highlighting the critical importance to human lives, of water and the lives it sustains, both in and out of water. Water forms a continuum, whether contained in rivers, lakes, and ocean. 

A recent United Nations study reported that more than two-thirds of the world's fisheries have been overfished or are fully harvested and more than one third are in a state of decline because of factors such as the loss of essential fish habitats, pollution, and global warming.

Unless we address these issues collectively, the crisis will deepen. The World Fisheries Day helps to highlight these problems, and moves towards finding solutions to the increasingly inter-connected problems we are facing, and in the longer term, to sustainable means of maintaining fish stocks. You can part of the solution by educating yourself about where your fish comes from, how sustainable the products you buy are and watching David Attenborough’s most recent documentary, Ocean. Thank you to everyone who got involved. 

Year 7 2026 Orientation Day

It was great to welcome some of the new Kilnacrott and Tongerlo students to St Norbert College with an introduction to the Climate Canons. Enthusiastic students played games, answered questions and shared with the groups their involvement in sustainability programs in their primary schools. We definitely saw the future of the Climate Canons in the room last Thursday and we look forward to welcoming the 2026 Year 7s to the Climate Canons’ programs next year.

2026 Planning Day

A big part of the Climate Canons is continuing to update and review the sustainability programs and projects that run at the College and this year’s accreditation to the Wastesorted Schools Program means that the reflection of our processes is carefully looked at and planning for more robust sustainability strategies in 2026 is underway. The Yr 7 - 9 Climate Canons had the opportunity on Monday to review 2025 and plan for 2026. It takes everyone’s involvement to ensure St Norbert College is an environmentally conscience and sustainable workplace for all and we thank all staff and students who are supporting the Climate Canons in this goal. We invite more students to join us in achieving these goals in 2026 by becoming part of the Climate Canons, using recycling bins in the classrooms and around the school properly, consider their lunchbox waste, participating in Climate Canons events and sharing the strong messages of sustainability.

Miss D Pisconeri

(Climate Canons Co-ordinator)