Gulf Harbour
School has become a WasteWise School. We
would like to reduce the amount of waste that we send to landfill each year so
in order to do this we have become part of the WasteWise Schools Programme.
This means that
we will:
·
Engage
in a whole school approach with the WasteWise Schools
Programme for a minimum of 2 years.
·
Involve
all school groups including students, staff, parents and
Board of Trustees
·
Engage
with the community where appropriate
·
Develop
a long-term waste reduction strategy
·
Annually
provide waste audit data to Regional Coordinator
·
Annually
review actions to reduce waste.
On Tuesday 27
March, Mrs Vrettos and Miss Cassidy attended a workshop on ‘Introduction to the
WasteWise Schools programme and how your school can reduce its ecological
footprint. Strategies to successfully
implement the programme’.
On Thursday 29
March, Shelley Hackett from WasteWise came to school to help us with our waste
audit. She spoke to the year 1 classes
from Rooms 18 and 20 about waste and the different types of waste found in our
schools and homes. Then they headed out
with Shelley to conduct the waste audit.
It was quite a job, but the little ones were great at sorting out the
various types of waste.
Our next step is
to develop a long-term waste reduction strategy.