Around the School

Year 7 Geography

Yr 7 Geography is studying world resources and water usage. As part of the unit Mr Salisbury took 7J and 7C around the school to see how Ringwood Secondary Colleges uses sustainable practices.

Here is the report by Chloe Fisken 7C

RSC is one of the best schools in the state for water usage as every student uses under one litre of water per day. What an achievement! How do we do this? When it rains, our new building captures the water in the gutters, and brings it down towards a 105,000 litre tank. The water in this tank is used to water the oval in summer and to flush the toilets. There are also secret bladders under the 500 that hold around 35000L.

You should notice when you walk into our amazing school that there are not many pretty flowers or large flowering plants. The reason for this is because we want to plants trees and grasses that need less water. This means plants get a fairer chance of staying alive.

Our new junior school block is a masterpiece that includes very sustainable double-glazed windows, LED lights (very energy efficient) and one of our major successes is our 63 kilowatts of solar powered energy. 32 of these solar panels rest on the top of our multi-million dollar building and the other 31 are on the RTTF building. These solar panels created 120 kw of power yesterday just off the school roof. At Ringwood we create 10% of our energy pa. That is magnificent!

Ringwood is such a sustainable school and we really appreciate all the choices made.