Rubbish Rebel Waste 

Sustainability at Somerville 

Rubbish Rebels Champions! 

Congratulations to FG and 1E for winning the Rubbish Rebels trophy over the past two weeks. 

Remember – no rubbish in lunch boxes every day. Rubbish must be taken home in the students’ lunch boxes if it is brought to school. As part of our commitment to becoming a 5-star sustainable school our waste is weighed and tallied each collection, this means we are actively trying to reduce external rubbish into our school bins. Remember soft plastics can be returned to Woolworths or Coles to reduce your home waste, and buying in bulk saves money and waste. 

Enviro Stars

Awesome work Enviro Stars for this week. Lexie has been using our office supplies tub to bring any broken or empty markers, pens and textas back for recycling. Well done Frankie and Willow for collecting some containers to make sure your lunch boxes are rubbish free. Madi for reducing her lunch box waste. Awesome job! 

Clean up Australia day for schools!

On Friday the 4th of March SPS got involved in Clean up Australia Day for Schools. Students in all year levels collected rubbish and sorted it into correct bins. Students learnt about recycling, REDcycling (soft plastics) and landfill. We were able to sort the waste so well that only 1 bag ended up in landfill. Great result! Thank you to Debbie from Bunnings Hastings for helping us at Barber Reserve with our clean up crew. 

Clean Up Australia Day Photos

Grade 4’s walking to Barber Reserve then all students involved in sorting the rubbish we collected, including a trolley! 

Miss Dunstan with Caroline & Jura.            

Students from FL getting involved. 

Students in 3D & FM teamed up to clean up. 

Repeat Plastics Australia - REPLAS excursion 

On Monday the 7th of March students in Grade 4, 5 and 6 travelled to REPLAS to explore the impact of waste on our environment and the journey of soft plastic recycling through REDcycle at Woolworths and Coles. 

Students entered a tunnel tour, in each room of the tunnel there was a different learning experience. Students saw the impact of plastics on the ocean, the types of plastics there are, what the process of recycling soft plastic is and the end products of recycled plastic. Everything in the showroom was made of plastic - from the benches to the jenga, the sandpit edges to the fitness equipment, the students loved playing with all of these.