An update from our Green Team

GREEN TEAM UPDATE

The Green Team members have been busy over the last few weeks gathering important data about our school. This is a requirement of our participation in the Resource Smart Sustainability program. To complete the Core Module of this program, we need to collect current data related to our school size, how school members travel to school, and what our grounds look like. 

This week, the Green Team members went outside and, using a Biodiversity Audit tool from Cool Australia, we counted the native/indigenous trees, introduced species trees, and the number of rocks and logs we have in the yard. All these features are important for supporting biodiversity in our school.

Here is the data we collected:

Number of native/indigenous trees over 6m tall: 49 (mainly eucalypts, she oaks and melaleucas)

Number of exotic/introduced trees over 6m tall: 10 

Number of native/indigenous trees under 6m tall: 65

Number of exotic/indigenous trees under 6m tall: 16

Number of large rocks and logs: 119

What this means is we are lucky to have a large number of trees, especially native trees. These are fantastic for attracting wildlife such as lorikeets, magpies, wattlebirds, native bees, possums and many bugs.

The areas we need to improve are the quality of our soil, the number and type of weeds we have and the quality and use of productive gardens. We are aware of this and with the assistance of the Gardening Club, as well as plans to purchase bins to assist with the disposal of green waste, we hope to take steps to make these areas more productive.