P & C Environment
Committee
Working Bee
1st November, all welcome 
Click for larger image
We support the school staff and students in enhancing an attractive, functional and sustainable environment in the school buildings and the surrounds.
For more information or to get involved
in the activities of the Environment Committee please contact Greg
Cooper on 9979 3747
2006 we cleaned up the environmentally very valuable
bushland behind the school. We have received a grant for further
environmental work. Scroll down for more pictures.
The area is used for science, art and photography classes.
2005 50th Anniversary Garden in the area between
the school bus stop and the TAS block where staff currently
park their cars.
2004 Clean up the area near the school bus stop on Harbord
Road. This frontage of the school is the visible face of the school to the
busy passing traffic.
2003 A new garden planted outside the main entrance of
the school
2002 The school foyer area was redecorated
Bush land Photos courtesy of Mary-Anne
Yeldham
Ongoing Campaigns
- Create and maintain an Environmental Management Plan (EMP), based on a research project and how it could be incorporated with the requirements of the DET initiative - "Environmental Education Policy for Schools".
- Identify and pursue grants for funding of environmental improvements including the EMP.
- Upgrade the area around the school canteen.
- Plan and undertake an annual "Working Bee" (and Duke of Edinburgh scheme) to implement campaigns.
- Consider the future of the Abbott Road land, opposite the school site.
Completed Projects
Finds included Christmas lights and woolworths trolleys
- Use a video tape presentation to encourage environmental awareness. Video edited by students now stored in Library.
- School entry gates areas paved with concrete.
- Upgrading of the basketball court area.
- The Duke of Edinburgh scheme was launched for students, and continues to be supported by staff.
- Pursue removal of the graffiti from the demountable building opposite the School gate on Abbott Road - and the building has now been removed.
- The Hall Sound system was installed in 2004 for the recent Concerts and musicals at the school ($26,000).
- Hall Lighting system. The former lighting system was insufficient to meet current stage lighting requirements or current OH&S occupational health and safety standards. As part of the overall hall upgrade the P&C called for tenders for lighting upgrades. Mostly complete ($15 000).
- School Environment Management Plan (SEMP). All schools
in New South Wales should have a SEMP plan. Our
draft plan, created with students and staff, led us to undertake
an "Eco Snapshot
Day" with
with Year 8 students and a group called SCRAP .This may include
some further projects and opportunities for sponsorship from
groups such as the AGL Sustainable Living
Program at the School of
the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales
and Warringah Council. The SEMP can be based on GIS (geographical
information systems)
placed on the web by Warringah Council.
- Eco Schools Grant 2003 for $2500 on Snapshot Day and also prizes of shower heads, and skylights and free tickets etc. Eco Schools Grant for 2005 was also won by SRC/P&C entry.
- Volleyball court and nets were funded and installed..
- The top oval was top-dressed and the goal posts were repaired ($2500).
- Investigated the desirability and feasibility of providing bus
shelters near the school bus stops, with the school staff and
Warringah Council. It is difficult to fund shelters for school
use only. School staff felt that shelters on the footpath would
get dirty, and unable to
shelter the numbers of students involved.
Future Projects
Most of us were completely unaware of this idyllic bush
enclave
- P&C has offered to help with funding for upgrading
the bushland area above the top playing field.
- Cricket practice Nets
- Shade Structures
- Lockers for students belongings
- Identify and apply for Eco Schools grant and other grants
- Seats for students around basketball court area
- Olive Tree of cultural/languages significance
Download
the Environment Committee Statement as a Microsoft Word document
|
