Illustrators for Sustainability

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On the first week of June, 2EB collaborated with Eric, a Year 9 student at Caufield Grammar School. Eric had written a book about Climate Change and how we can be more sustainable, and asked 2EB to create some illustrations to complete the picture story book.

2EB were definitely up to the task and created some fantastic illustrations showing the story of Snowy the Polar Bear and his plight to save the ice caps from melting.

Here’s what the class thought about it:

“I learned about the different things we can do to be more sustainable and it made me feel included because I like drawing.” - Siyan

“The book was about climate change and the hole in the ozone layer down in Antarctica because of the greenhouse gasses. It made me feel important and I enjoyed being so creative and colourful.” - Aarahn

“It was pretty fun because we got to be creative and do drawings. I felt a bit nervous because I didn’t want to mess up, but we did really well!” - Chloe

Bins around School

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Thank you to everyone who brings in items to be recycled!

Miss Richards and Mrs Bartleton took a trip to Monash Council Recycling Centre to drop off all the items that we can recycle through them. It was great to see just how many items can be recycled, which stops them from going into landfill!

Just a remindere of the bins we have on site.

In the Staff Carpark, we have:

  • Small electronics

  • Clothing

In the small bins in the Sustainability Hub in A Block (outside Mrs Spicer’s office), we have:

  • Batteries

  • Mobile Phones

  • Light globes (twisty ones only can be recylced through Monash Council)

  • Pens and Markers

  • Bread Tags

  • Ink Cartriges

  • Bottle Caps

2024 Sustainability Captains

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2024 Sustainability Captains

Hello, Elvin and Ellie here! We are the Sustainability Captains for WHPS 2024.

I am Ellie and I wanted to become Sustainability Captain because our planet is heading into a time of crisis, we only have one earth and taking care of our planet is essential. I thought I could do my part by becoming sustainability captain and lead our school to a more sustainable future.

I am Elvin, and I wanted to become Sustainability Captain because during my time as a waste warrior I realized that making the world a more sustainable place should be everyone’s top priority.

We would love to do many things for our school as Sustainability Captains. To be able to reach a 5-star sustainability rating would truly be amazing. We would immensely appreciate it if the school could organize a day dedicated to sustainability. We could organize fun events all while learning about human impacts on the world. That concludes this week’s Sustainability blog. Just a friendly reminder for all students to bring Nude Food every day; as we said, the future of our planet lays in our hands.

Water Saving Tips

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Over the last 12 months, we have been raising money to fix out water tanks around the school.

Our Waste Warriors created some incredible tips for saving water at home and around the school.

SUSTAINABILITY CAPTAINS

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Hi! We are Hayley and Sophia the 2023 Sustainability captains.

“I first got interested in Sustainbility at home and i wanted to have a role in helping Wheelers Hill Primary become more sustainabile”. Sophia

“I enjoyed doing some of the Sustainability jobs last year to help out so i thought it would be great to be the captain so i can help out even more”.

At Wheelers Hill Primary we have lots of Sustainable practices. These include

  • Composting

  • Nude Food Tuesday

  • a Five-bin system in each classroom

  • Recycling - hard and soft plastics

  • Paper recycling

  • Indigenous garden

  • Community recycling - batteries, mobile phones, bread tags, markers, light globes, ink cartridges

  • Clothes and electrical bins for community use

  • Water Warriors in each classroom who are responsible for ensuring lighs are off, composting

  • Sustinability leaders in Year 6

  • Recycled benches and tables