Sustainability & Gardening Program

Our Pre School supports children to develop their awareness of sustainability principals and how our actions can have an impact on the world around us.  Through hands on learning experiences we engage children in learning knowledge, skills and values which develop their ability to maintain their own wellbeing – and that of their community and the planet.

Sustainable practices are embedded across the kindergarten, through growing our own vegetables in our garden, composting fruit and vegetable scraps or learning to sort our recycling from landfill waste. 

Our programs also provide opportunities for children to engage in learning about sustainability through the wider community, such as our excursion to Edendale Farm where children learn what farms produce and how animals, plants and insects contribute to our environment.

Please help us to look after our environment by implementing sustainable practices in our every day life.

At Kinder you can help by:

• Rubbish free lunch – buy yoghurt and cheese in bulk and pack it in washable containers.
• Ensure we have your email details so we can email out newsletters rather than printing them.
• Bring in empty boxes, milk bottles, cream and yoghurt pots, card board cylinders (except toilet rolls), bottle tops, corks, etc that the children can use in their art and craft.
• Bring in old toys that might be appropriate for Kinder.
• Purchase our Worm Juice fo r $2 …. your plants will love it !
• Helping us with gardening projects, or other sustainability activities ….

At Kinder we:

• Have a water tank for the children to access fo r water in the sand pit and to water plants.
• A worm farm where the children put their food scraps. The child ren also help pour the worm wee into bottles for us to sell and to put on our garden along with the worm castings.
• Enjoy gardening and planting flowers.
• Sort our morning tea and lunch ‘rubbish’ into containers – food scraps, recyclables and rubbish.
• Have solar hot water
• Turn the lights off when we are outside (when we remember!)