Frederick Irwin Anglican School has launched a recycling drive at the Meadow Springs Campus Primary School, which is teaching students the importance of sustainability.
To help Australian kids champion recycling and sustainability, Colgate, Chemist Warehouse and TerraCycle have launched the 2018 Colgate Community Garden Challenge.
This gives primary school students the chance to win one of five recycled community garden sets to grow their own vegetables.
Eco-Committee leader and Year 3 teacher Mrs Katrina Wade said that the inspiration to join the Colgate Community Garden Challenge came after a small group of Primary School teachers went to a Sustainable Schools Meeting for Educators in the Peel Region.
“While at the meeting, we saw a need for Frederick Irwin to review the way we dispose of our rubbish at the school,” she said.
“We decided on the Colgate Community Challenge as it was a little bit unusual, and we loved the idea of competing for an opportunity to win a new Community Garden, while recycling as well.
“Our school would love to win a recycled community garden set as we are looking forward to teaching everyone where food comes from, that it’s not grown on the supermarket shelves.
“We would love for our Frederick Irwin Community to come together to tend to a garden.”
Mrs Wade’s keen eco-warrior students have embraced the program wholeheartedly, insisting on making suitable storage containers for the collections, and wanting to visit other classrooms to spread the good news about the competition.
“They check in daily to count the number of items in our new red recycling bin and have calculated the points we are earning,” Ms Wade said.
The initiative is running until October 31. For more information visit www.terracycle.com.au/en-AU/contests/colgategardenvoting.
Gareth McKnight
Gareth McKnight is Mandurah Mail's editor.
Gareth McKnight is Mandurah Mail's editor.
