🌿New Sustainability Signs Around Our School! 🌱

You may have noticed something new popping up around our school grounds—beautiful Sustainability Signs! These signs have been created to raise awareness and encourage positive environmental practices throughout our school community.

A huge thank you to OGPS parent Morgan Jamieson for her incredible design work.

📸 ResourceSmart Schools Photography Competition Now Open!

Does your child love taking photos and care about the environment? The ResourceSmart Schools Photography Competition is the perfect opportunity to combine those passions!

This year’s theme is:

"Sustainability Through Your Own Lens" What does Building a Climate-Ready Future mean to you?

Students are invited to take a photo that captures this idea and write a short reflection (up to 100 words) explaining how their image shows climate change adaptation.

Photos can be taken anywhere in Victoria—at home, school, or in the community—and submissions can be completed on student iPads in their own time.

To enter: Send your photo and reflection through to Mrs Earle on Seesaw, and we’ll take care of the entry process.

📅 Entries close Friday 19 September

🌱 Help Us Grow! Seed Starting at OGPS 🌱

We’re thrilled to be launching a new seed-growing initiative at Ocean Grove Primary School as part of our sustainability program! Students will soon be getting their hands dirty as they learn to grow plants from seed, care for young plants.

To get this exciting project off the ground, we’re asking our amazing school community for donations of the following:

🌿 1 bag of premium seed raising mix
🥕 2 bags of premium vegetable potting mix
🌱 Mini greenhouses that are no longer being used
🏡 And if anyone has a small greenhouse they no longer need—wishful thinking, we know!—we’d absolutely love to give it a new life at OGPS!

We’re also looking to boost our compost system and are in need of 'brown' materials such as straw, wood chips, or dry leaves. These help balance our compost and keep it thriving.

Donations can be dropped off near the school garden area or at the front office.

🌱 Nude Food Tuesday & 🚶‍♀️ Active Wednesday

A Friendly Reminder!

At Ocean Grove Primary School, we love finding fun ways to stay healthy and care for our environment. Here’s a quick reminder about two of our weekly initiatives that help us do just that!

🥪 Nude Food Tuesday Each Tuesday, we encourage all students to bring a nude food lunch—that means lunchboxes packed with no single-use plastics or wrappers. The goal is to reduce waste and make more sustainable food choices. Think containers, beeswax wraps, and reusable snack bags!

👟 Active Wednesday

Every Wednesday, we ask students to get moving and actively travel to school if they can—walk, ride, scoot, or even park a little further away and walk the rest. It’s a great way to build healthy habits and ease traffic around the school!

-Mrs Earle 🌎

Inclusion Subcommittee