Environmental Programs

Wildlife Show & Tell

One of the positives of spending more time at home is being able to slow down and appreciate the wildlife in our own backyards. A new page has been created on My Aitken (click here to visit page), dedicated to sharing photos, videos and stories of wildlife you have seen in your own backyard or front porch, on walks near your home, or even from your windows. So far, only a few posts have been made. Let us continue to share and celebrate the beautiful Australian environment and all the creatures and critters that live here.

Iso-Eco Bricks

Did you know that you can fit almost a kilo of soft plastic into a single plastic bottle?

Many of us were doing a great job of recycling our soft-plastics at school before COVID-19 sent us all home for remote learning. It is not as easy to recycle soft plastics from home since it is not part of the regular Council collections. Our only option is to collect it separately from other types of waste and take it to a participating REDcycle drop-off locations, until now!

Instead of contributing to landfill during this time of isolation, let's put our soft plastics towards something BIG - Iso-EcoBricks! This will be a fun way to minimise landfill by collecting soft plastics into compact EcoBricks as described in the dedicated My Aitken page (click here to visit page), and later bring them all together at Aitken to build something in commemoration of this memorable time in history.

We will not only be celebrating being back at school, but also celebrating how much plastic we have rescued from landfill to put towards something useful and long-lasting. So get started on making those Iso-EcoBricks. We will decide what to build with them once we are back at school.

Ms Cristy Herron

Head of Environmental Programs

Cows Create Careers

On Monday 20 April, the Aitken College Year 10 Agriculture class were introduced to their Cows Create Careers calves: 'Bright' and 'Future'. At the time, Bright and Future were three-week-old Holstein calves, born on the Loughridge family Holstein dairy farm, in Wilbrae, Gippsland. The students have engaged in online learning modules, following the calves for five weeks through online videos and activities. Students have learnt how Bright and Future have grown and the differences in their personalities. They are receiving 2kg of milk twice a day, in addition to a calf meal to promote growth. The personalities of the calves are beginning to develop: Bright is a confident and dominant calf, never shying away from the lime-light; Future is still continuing to find her confidence and is a little timid. Students and staff alike have enjoyed being a part of Bright and Future’s progression throughout the program.

Miss Hayley Dench

Agriculture Teacher