School environmental management plans work across the key learning areas of the curriculum and the whole school community.
We start with local sustainability and over time develop student understanding of how their work contributes globally.
Students and staff manage, observe and monitor our school's resources, waste and physical surroundings, then take on activities to protect and improve our school and the local environment.
Your child will develop an understanding about:
- the relationship between human activities and natural systems
- sustainable management of the earth's resources
- the inter-related nature of processes in the natural environment
We encourage you to support your child's 'going green' activities, and to help them to learn to care for the environment as part of their everyday lives.
Sustainability at KPS
At Kiama Public School we are constantly finding new and innovative ways to be more environmentally friendly and stick to sustainable practices.
In 2018, we worked closely with our Kiama Community of Schools to ensure we all achieved great success in our sustainable efforts, which were recognised by the Governor General of Australia, Peter Cosgrove.
We are now collectors of Return and Earn items that are produced from our canteen, packed lunches and staff waste. By collecting these items, we have not only saved funds on waste disposal, but also have made money on recycling our products in a more environmentally friendly way. We encourage members of the community to donate their items or funds to our school through the supplied barcode so we can continue to make great sustainable choices.
Our school has had a wonderful composting process for many years where our scraps from the students' Crunch and Sip go into our compost piles and to our chickens, which again reduces our waste and lowers our costs.
In 2019, we will be introducing compost bins in our playgrounds as well, to further our efforts in recycling.
Later in the year, we will also be trialling nude food days, where we encourage students to bring their lunch without any single use plastic and/or wrappers.