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Saturday saw a determined group of St Columba's students and siblings, 3/4 Eco Warrior representatives and Green Team parents successfully shovel 7m3 of soil into our soon-to-be Indigenous garden. The team got to work at 10.30am with shovels, wheelbarrows and rakes and managed to get their morning work out in minutes before the rain came! The garden is located outside the front of the school, and the aim is to install locally indigenous tubestock with Boon Wurrung significance to dev...

An energetic group of St Columba's students, 3/4 Eco Warrior representatives and Green Team parents rolled up their sleeves on the weekend and started work on the new Indigenous garden area for our birds.

The garden is located outside the front of the school, and the aim is to install locally indigenous tubestock with Boon Wurrung significance to develop a supporting habitat for bird species.

We spent the afternoon clearing the existing garden and filling bags and wheelbarrows with...

Students from years 3-6 participated in the Wild Melbourne incursion on Wednesday. The story about the journey of the Yarra River was told and the pollution humans cause to the river and other waterways.

They participated in a challenge to learn about the tragedy of the commons. This was all about fishing and why being sustainable is important for resources. This has tied in with our classroom learning across the school during Inquiry and Earth Sciences. The message was about sustainability ...

Last week the 3/4s went to explore the different habitats and creatures found in and around the canal and beach.

First we explored the birds in the Elwood canal; some birds were swimming in the water and we found out that one part of the canal is made up of seawater and fresh water.

We saw a Grey Egret which only hangs around during the colder months.

Next we drew what we think Point Ormond looked like and after the settlers people came and the after. As we were drawing Gio (from th...

Over the past few weeks, our 3/4 Eco Warriors have been lucky to have some pre-service teachers from ACU come in to run some science lessons with us. Here's what they had to say about the lessons:

Audrey: In our workshop, we have been learning different ways to reduce our water and power usage. We used an app to work out how much water and power over the course of the year we would use. We presented our findings to the class and then gave some solutions on how we could become more sustain...