Environment & Sustainability at GPS

Hello everybody in the GPS community!

This year we’re looking forward to continuing our celebration of natural environment and our dedication to sustainability. 

This week, the Senior Campus billabong is being cleaned out, relined and refilled. It will be interesting to see how many yabbies we currently have. We don’t think any of our female yabbies have given birth over the summer but we might be surprised! All yabbies will return to the billabong after this upgrade.

Our Bunjil Garden at the Junior Campus is in ‘good nick’ and planting of more herbs and vegies will commence soon. Our Wominjeka Garden at the senior campus has struggled over the summer and we shall import some new soil to compliment our own organic composting program before we do any more planting in that garden however some of the tomatoes we planted late last year are bearing fruit and might survive the hot patch of weather in early February. 

We’ve done such a great job with our rubbish-free protocols over the past decade at Gardenvale Primary School and we are committed to having no outdoor bins Mondays – Thursdays. Most students have been completely rubbish-free but if any child brings any food wrappings/packaging these pieces of waste must return home in the lunch box/bag that day to be binned at home.

Let’s keep encouraging and inspiring our kids to save our planet and rejoice our beautiful natural environment.

Yours in Education

Tim McRae, co-ordinator for Environment and Sustainability at GPS