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A successful Saturday shovelling session!
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St Columba's Greenies start work on our bird garden
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...
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Wild Melbourne and making polluted water clean
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 ...
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St Columba's community participates in Love Our Street 3184
Last Saturday 5th August, members of the St Columba's community participated in Love Our Street 3184. Thank you to the Taylor and Ilott families who helped to clean up a lot of rubbish around the St Columba's precinct!There were a total of 17 volunteers from the school and wider community, including 5 champion children, who together collected 23.78 kg of litter, which is equivalent to about 20 shopping bags!
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Eco Warriors explore the environment
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...
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Learning science for the environment
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...
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