Environmental Team

Environment & Sustainability 

Earth Hour

Last Friday was Earth Hour for Schools and we did our part by turning

off the lights, screens and electrical devices for 1 hour, to show our support for the planet. Schools all around Australia participated too. Well done everyone. Did you switch off at home on Saturday too?

Classroom Composting

Composting is well underway in the years 3-6 classrooms and in the staffroom. All the food scraps that we are putting into the compost bins are not going to landfill. Great work everyone!  We are asking if everyone can reduce the amount of packaging that they bring to school as much as possible by using small reusable containers or lunch boxes with built in sections for different foods. Let’s see if we can make a difference right here at school.

Wonder Recycling Rewards Program is back!

The Wonder Recycling Rewards Program is returning with a new recycling partner APR Plastics. For the remainder of this term and all of term 2 St John’s will be participating in the program, so start saving your bread bags. The rule of thumb is that if it has contained bread of some sort and is a soft plastic, then it’s a bread bag. If it hasn’t contained bread, then it’s not a bread bag. Bread bags should be as free from crumbs as they can be to keep the recycling process free from contamination (there is no need to wash them, just give them a good shake out).

There is a box in the office area to deposit your clean bread bags. Please do not put anything else in this box other than plastic bread bags. The more bags we collect the more credits we receive to redeem free sports equipment for our school.

More information will be coming soon.

News from the Coop

Watch this space…

Thanks for your support,

The Environment Team