Wild Onesie Week

Hurlstone Environment Committee would like to congratulate those who took up WWF's challenge and wore a onesie. You did an excellent job promoting Wild Onesie Week and raising awareness about endangered animals!

Wear One. Save Many.

Are you prepared to head to work or wherever you normally spend your day, dressed head-to-toe as an endangered animal?
That's our challenge to Australians during Wild Onesie Week from Monday 2 – Friday 6 June 2014. By wearing a Onesie and going about your daily business – in a fun way, you’ll get a sense of what it’s like to be an endangered species for a day. Wild Onesie Week is a new national community event designed to raise:

• awareness about endangered species, and
• funds for WWF Australia to continue their critical work.

See more by visiting the link below,

http://www.everydayhero.com.au/event/wowwwf

Vote for the Reef

On 16 June, join millions around the world tweeting and posting using #FightfortheReef, creating a global Social Media Storm that the World Heritage Committee and Australian Government can’t ignore. See more - 

http://www.younesco.org/

National Recycling Week - Influence

National Recycling Week was from the 11th-15th of November and this year, it was focused on the five I's: Inspire, insight, implement, initiative and influence.

Friday's theme was Influence and several Environment Committee volunteers from years 9-11 hosted a Recycling Workshop for year 7 students. The workshop aimed to raise awareness and educate students about the importance of recycling. 
The workshop began with a power-point presentation on different recyclables and was followed by a series of games which promoted recycling and sustainability. The games included creating environmental words using recyclable items, the Big Wind Blows and Pass the Parcel. 
There was also a Vision session where students broke off into smaller groups to brainstorm a list of environmental issues as well as ideas for tackling those issues. 

The workshop was a fun way to get year 7 students active and involved in recycling activities and allowed them to use their creative minds.  

National Recycling Week - Insight

Team SS

Team Agent Orange

National Recycling Week was from the 11th-15th of November and this year, it was focused on the five I's: Inspire, insight, implement, initiative and influence.

Tuesday was insight and Hurlstone's Environment Committee held our very own Trivia.
Five teams participated with great enthusiasm. They were tested on their knowledge about Hurlstone's very own Environment Committee, recycling and the environment in general. Thank you to all those who took their time out to participate!

Congratulations to the winning team, Mariants!

National Recycling Week - Inspire

National Recycling Week was from the 11th-15th of November and this year, it was focused on the five I's: Inspire, insight, implement, initiative and influence.

Monday was inspire and many quotes were placed around the school to help inspire everyone to get up and make a difference to help sustain our environment. 

National Water Week

National Water Week is an annual event held in October, across Australia. This year, National Water Week will be held from the 20th to the 26th. It is a week that is dedicated to raise community awareness about current and future water issues and to encourage the community to take action to protect our vital water sources.  It's also a celebration of water achievements in painting a sustainable future for generations to come.

To learn how to protect, conserve and get involved, or for more information, you can visit this link:
http://www.savewater.com.au/programs-and-events/national-water-week

Country Fair 2013

Finger-print tree

Panda Made Me Do It with Ex-Hurlstonians

The panda made me hug a tree

Daniel Zhao playing the Ping Pong game

Plant A Wish

Vincent and Julia with Kate Ritchie

Hurlstone held its annual Country Fair on the 31st of August. This was a great opportunity for us to have our own stand with many fun awareness games and booths. Our aim this year was to promote sustainable practices and raise awareness in our school and community.

Games included the Ping Pong and Slime game. Many people who tried our games out, found it extremely difficult to win. We also had many booths along with our fun games. A finger-print tree banner was hung at the back wall for people to come by, contribute and decorate our tree with their own finger prints. We had a Plant a Wish Scheme towards the right side, where those who approached us with a plastic bottle which was to be recycled and used as a tree pot, were given a free plant. There was also a Panda Made Me Do It booth where those who came by, could write a message on the whiteboard and take photos with our lovely panda, Jason and Andy. Accompanying the booth was Pin the Nose on the Panda game. The Environment Committee also handed out pamphlets to raise awareness for different campaigns.

We were lucky to have a special guest visit our stand, ex-Hurlstonian actress Kate Ritchie!

Thank you to everyone who dropped by our stand and we hope we've enlightened you to become more environmentally friendly!

Protect the Reef Campaigns

I know this isn't school related, but here are some campaigns you might be interested in taking part in. We can be environmentally active both in and out of school :)

 

Join the global TWITTERSTORM to #FIGHTFORTHEREEF – June 17

The World Heritage Committee is meeting in Cambodia from 16-25 June and will make some big decisions about the future of the Great Barrier Reef.

Join our 24-hour Global Twitter Storm on 17 June and show Australia’s political leaders and the World Heritage Committee that you want the Great Barrier Reef protected!
The Reef belongs to all of us. We need you to tweet your concern about the impact mega ports and shipping superhighways will have on the Great Barrier Reef. This is the perfect opportunity to get the attention of decision-makers at the highest level – let’s make it count.

How to participate:
Tweet #FightfortheReef on 17 June – use one of the below or come up with your own Share the images below on Twitter or Facebook Spread the word – tell your friends, family and networks to tweet for the Reef

Tell Tony Burke to reject dredging at Abbot Point

Within weeks, our government could allow shipping port developers to start tearing enormous holes in the seabed inside the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - a practice known as dredging. Some 3 million cubic metres of sediment (enough to fill 1,200 Olympic-sized swimming pools!) would be ripped from the ocean bed, destroying the homes and food sources of turtles, dugongs and rare snubfin dolphins. Environment Minister Tony Burke has the power to stop this. So we’ve launched an emergency petition to demonstrate massive community opposition to this dreadful plan. Sign on today and we’ll hand deliver the petition to Burke in front of journalists during the UN World Heritage Committee meeting in June.If we act now we can make sure mining companies don’t get away with it.
Take action and sign: https://www.greenpeace.org.au/action/?cid=40&src=EM1

International Compost Awareness Week

Since it is International Compost Awareness Week, here are a few steps to start composting at home:

Remember: We have a worm farm at school. Shortly there will be a poster at school advising you all what you can and can't place in the worm farm. So drop by the sustainable garden and hold onto food scraps, have a look to see if you can compost it, before thinking about throwing your rubbish away!