St Peters Environment Club

ELLA ZEEMAN AND RACHEL HA year 11 students PAST/PRESENT

The Environment Club is the heart of the school’s sustainability activities and helps achieve meaningful change within our community. We inspire, motivate and give students opportunities to build leadership skills, investing in themselves along with the cause; the environment. We started out our 2022 environment campaigning by focusing on raising awareness and maintaining the beautiful environment of our St Peters Lutheran College campus. Beginning the school year, we focussed heavily on campus’ gardens and green walls. This was done through gardening and maintenance duties of the pre-existing greenspace around the school. Sustaining the flourishing greens has helped bring life and vibrance to the campus. In Term 2, a chocolate fundraiser was held for the ‘Save the Frogs’ Campaign. Students were encouraged to purchase $1 Freddo Frogs and Caramello Koalas to raise funds for this frog conservation enterprise. We have continued to promote the usage of the bottle recycling bins located across the campus. Since Term 3, smaller classroom paper bins across Junior High and Senior School have been introduced in an attempt to reduce our mass of waste entering landfill; to induce recycling. Our projects in Term 4 will include our annual textbook swap, enabling students to pick up textbooks for next year and make sure that this year’s books don’t go in the bin. The continuation of great initiatives and sustaining campaigns from previous years is expected. FUTURE

St Peter’s Environmental Committee plans to bring many new ideas and projects to life in 2022+. Such projects include the formal introduction of conventional recycling bins around the school, increased composting avenues, as well as creating more greenspace across campus. Other projects will fill the gaps of the larger excitements. Such may include; • Increased advocacy • Updating school’s lights to be more energy efficient (LEDs) • Soft plastic recycling bins • Composting bins/worm farms • Pen/stationery recycling • Uniform recycling (through wornup) etc.

HOW?

Due to St Peter’s very large nature, it can seem both materialistically and socially difficult to get such large projects moving. However, as heavily enforced by the school’s fortitude; anything is possible. Through further communications between the environmental committee and the school’s heads, logistics and promotions to students will bring these ideas to life, making them seem like just the beginning, because they are. Environmental awareness is an essential practice, especially in our modern time, to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. The environmental committee will continue to find/take opportunities to improve the school’s sustainability and attitude towards such matters. Awareness to students will bring to light the importance of keeping both our campus clean, as well as the rest of the earth. We hope that this influence will carry into the attitudes and motivations of all the young people preparing to form the future of the world. The future is in our hands.

Pictured (clockwise): The initial setup of the green wall in Term 1 (above and right); growth in Term 3 (below and left).

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