iSea iCare

Hello from our Sustainability Leaders

On Tuesday 13th September our Sustainability Leaders visited Mordialloc Beach to attend a series of workshops related to caring for our environment and learning about Indigenous Australian history. This is the final iSea iCare excursion that our ambassadors will attend and they should be very proud of their efforts. We look forward to Term 4 where Alex, Mia, Kara and Oscar will present at Day 2 of the Kingston Big Green Schools.

On Tuesday the 13th of September 2022 the three iSea iCare Ambassadors went to Mordialloc beach on our last excursion to learn about Indigenous culture and our land, planting new life and learning how to identify sea animals by their fins. When we got to Mordialloc beach Mandy told us how there were three rotations but first we were all going to go watch the clean up tractor that drives along the beach every morning and picks up all the rubbish on the beach. After that we started heading towards our first rotation. My group's first rotation was planting new plants that were local Indigenous plants and that was my favourite activity. After we had a lunch break we headed to our second rotation where an Indigenous man called Dean taught us about our land and how people have been living here for thousands of years and made me think “Wow there’s been way more people here than just me living here.” Our last rotation, Mandy gave us three ambassadors and everyone else some laminated pieces of paper that had foods and countries on them and we had to separate them from worst for the environment to the least amount of damage for the environment. Then a man taught us how to identify a dolphin from its dorsal fin and then he put out a bunch of dolphins with their names and then he put down a bunch of dorsal fin photos and we had to match the dorsal fins up with the different dolphins. I think that being an iSea iCare ambassador was really fun and I hope that the future ambassadors can improve our school and have fun participating.  Alex

It was so much fun participating in another iSea iCare workshop! We learnt a lot about the Indigenous Australians and their culture. We also learnt about how much different countries contribute to emissions of greenhouse gasses. At the start of the day we got to do a really fun activity where we had to plant native plants in a sand dune. This was definitely my favourite activity we did at the workshop since it was very hands-on, and it felt like we were leaving a mark on the beach. Next we listened to a man talk about the Indigenous Australians who lived in this area thousands of years ago. It was really interesting, and we got to look at different maps, pictures and even a hollowed out emu egg. Lastly, we had to organise pictures of countries and foods we thought contributed the most and least to the amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. Then we had to try and identify dolphins from the fins. This workshop was so much fun and really interesting. I loved doing all of it, especially the planting, and I’m so grateful we got the opportunity to do this. Kara 

On Tuesday the 13th September, the Sustainability leaders went down to Mordialloc Beach to attend some workshops. One of the workshops was to plant some Indigenous plants in sand dunes. I managed to plant about four and we even got to water them afterwards. Another workshop we did was to listen to Dean an Indigenous man, as he showed us many posters, maps and items to help us understand the traditions and what it was like thousands of years ago on this land. The last workshop we did was learning about climate change, we had to label countries and foods from the most to least amount of emissions in the air. Surprisingly, Australia was at the top of the list as having the most gas emissions. The second part of the activity was when a man came and gave us a talk about dolphins and how we can tell the difference between them by only looking at their fins. I really enjoyed this experience and my favourite activity was probably the Indigenous planting as I haven't done planting in a while! Mia

Congratulations to 5/6MB who won the first Rubbish Free Lunch Award. Our trophy, ‘Wally the Waste Warrior,’ was very excited to visit his first classroom. Keep up the great work in reducing waste at our school. Which grade will win the award next?

Steve Pertz & Sustainability Leaders