SMPS Family iNewsletter

Sustainability

Making the world a better place, one action at a time

Winners of your Discovery Art Competition

A big thank you to all of our art competition submitters. What talented students we have at SMPS! 

 

Our winners:

  • Ronil - Prep E
  • Elias - Grade 1
  • Hendrix - 2D
  • Sasha - 6

Runners up:

  • Jacob - Prep A
  • Kiyomi - 2B

 

A big congratulations to these students! (winners please read below to see your prize!) You can see the wonderful creations we received in the window next to the library as you walk through the main door.

Sustainability Incursion

We are fortunate to have our local council supply educational virtual sessions on sustainability. We have been granted limited spots for some students to participate this year. The students who have been chosen are students who have actively participated and thrived with our missions over the last semester. The students below will be attending this virtual visit on 9th of December. Thank you for supporting and learning with us this year with sustainability! We are looking forward to more opportunities next year for our whole school to participate in similar educational sessions.

 

Liam Prep F

Aarya Prep B

Saumyaa in 3/4C 

Shanaya 2C

Meet Prep E

Spruha Prep E

Sanvi 2C

Shreyam 2C

Navya 2C

Aadya 1C

Adam 1D

Ananyaa 1C

Lucas Hui 1D

Raphael Sim 1C

Aditya 2C

Mathivathani Prep C

Haruka Prep E

Spruha Prep E

Amal Prep E

Siddh Prep B

Nishal Prep B

Ashwath Prep B

Hayato Prep B

Sonakshi Prep B

Akshaz Prep E

Jiyaan (Prep B)

Isabel 3/4A

Ronil - prep E

Elias - grade 1

Hendrix -2D

Sasha - 6

Jacob -prep A

Kiyomi- 2B

Our Next Mission - Indigenous Australian Food

Australian Indigenous people have a deep emotional connection to Country – they care for and nurture Country; visit Country; talk to Country; sing for Country; and feel sorry for Country. Country defines identity and with identity comes obligation to oneself, to others past, present and future, and to nature.

 

Over the past couple of weeks students have been learning about NAIDOC week and different Indigenous Australian cultures. This includes how people have sustained the land we live on for over 65,000 years before European settlement.

 

Indigenous peoples of Australia are very resourceful and only take what they need from the land. 

 

Traditional Indigenous people ate foods that they were able to find on the land, as they did not have shops or supermarkets like we do today. The types of foods available depended greatly on the group’s location in Australia (desert or coastal areas) and on the seasons (summer, autumn, winter and spring).

 

Most foods eaten in Australia are not native to our country but were introduced by British settlers or brought in with later waves of immigration from Europe and Asia. Many of the staples grown, such as wheat, soybean and barley crops, have suffered lower yields following the substantial increase in temperatures as a result of climate change. Yet for more than 65,000 years Aboriginal Australians cultivated and domesticated crops that were native to the continent, and therefore better adapted to its temperature and environmental pressures, providing great amounts, nutrition and diversity of food to Indigenous communities. Why local flora and fauna has not been embraced as a food source, and the knowledge of Aboriginal peoples revered and preserved, very much ties into the country’s history of colonisation. A native Australian food sector has been slow to emerge but is gaining traction and is likely, in the coming years, to rewrite a more authentic local and sustainable food paradigm.

 

What can we do to acknowledge the traditional Indigenous Peoples sustainability within food?

 

Your mission:

Send through any photos or videos of you completing these tasks to your teacher by the 9th of December.