This is the information collected from the Waste Audit conducted on 10th June at school. What can we do to change how much recyclable waste, organic and non-organic, is going straight to landfill? Please reply to this post with your thoughts and ideas here.
School Waste Audit
On the 10th of June, our class and Room 5 went to the Junarium to meet Mr Plumb and Mrs MacIndoe from the City of Bunbury. They discussed the different kinds of waste and how it’s affecting the world.
Our objective was to sort out the garbage from our school bins and put them in the right buckets. The activity was pretty messy so we had to wear gloves.
The year sixes rummaged through the garbage first while the year twos relaxed. After a while we swapped places but only if we wanted to. Even though it was pretty gross, we had a lot of fun.
Johannea & Anthony
On Tuesday the 10th of June Room 11 and Room 5 did a school wide waste audit. We had to sort food and rubbish from the school bins into categories. It was gross but at least we got to wear gloves. At the end of the session with Mrs MacIndoe and Mr Plumb, we counted how many things were in each category. We also recorded how much each bucket weighed.
In the end we tipped all the food and rubbish back into the bins and said thank you and goodbye to Mr Plumb and Mrs MacIndoe. It was interesting to see how much whole fruit and food gets thrown in the bins!
Zoe and Ben
Year 6 students at Cooinda Primary school have produced an outstanding winning video entry into the hotly contested 2nd annual National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) short film competition. Their winning entry will now be showcased at the prestigious 2014 International Kids Teaching Kids Conference being hosted in Mandurah October 29th-31st.
Cooinda Primary had two show stopping entries into the competition illustrating just how passionate the students at the school are about environmental learning and sharing of knowledge. The winning entry has provided a grant to help 8 students attend the award winning International Kids Teaching Kids Conference. Both teams of students thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of the task. They followed the Kids Teaching Kids methodology for the challenge and gained valuable skills and new knowledge on groundwater.
Anne Fletcher, Principal of Cooinda Primary School has said “I am delighted to see our students taking initiative through the Kids Teaching Kids program, the work they have produced is to be applauded and each student should be congratulated on their undertaking of this task.”
The Kids Teaching Kids Learning Model connects students with local environmental issues such as carbon farming, food futures, wildlife, solar technology and the urban water cycle to name just a few and it offers them the skills to develop their learning to educate peers and local community members through interactive student led workshops. Students learn with their head, heart and hand. In other words they are encouraged into thinking, feeling and developing practical ways to respond to the challenges facing our environment.
Founder and Director of Kids Teaching Kids and former Young Australian of the year Arron Wood congratulated the Cooinda students “It’s always an inspiration when you see young people taking up the environmental challenge, the Cooinda students have done a brilliant job capturing the importance of Ground water to our environment.”
Both film entries from Cooinda Primary School will be shown to the Conference audience of over 400 student delegates from across Australia and overseas. Cooinda students will take part in the three day conference event, participating in student led workshops, enjoying a gala dinner and being involved in the Environmental Project Day.
The National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training has been created by the Australian Government to help build groundwater knowledge and expertise so it can be better managed.
Scientists are investigating:
– How groundwater moves in different soils and rocks
– How groundwater interacts with rivers, lakes and the ocean
– How trees and plants use groundwater
– How models can better show what happens underground
– The environmental, economic and social value of groundwater
Two Year 6 teams have put together 2 minute films on the theme of Groundwater for entry into a Short Film Competition. Congratulations to Sharmin, Kane, Jack and Madison, and Aditi, Zoe, Savannah and Phoebe for putting their films together. A challenging but rewarding experience.
Enjoy some shots from the Year 6’s visit to Newton Moore Senior High School to undertake an investigation on Wind Turbines.
The Cooinda Mangrove Mariners National Science Week event has again been successful in receiving national funding in what was once again a very competitive grant round that attracted applications worth a total of more than triple the $500 000 of available funds. 39 applicants across Australia received funding, with 5 in Western Australia, of which 2 events are based in Bunbury. Cooinda Primary School is the only Primary school in Australia to receive funding, a great achievement.
National Science Week (http://www.scienceweek.net.au/) will be held from 16–24 August 2014 and is a focus of Inspiring Australia which aims to engage Australians in science.
In science this term at Cooinda…
Room 1 are studying flight. How cool would that be and Room 2 are studying water ways. Cool hey.
Room 4 are studying how tadpoles turn into frogs. We would love to learn about that! Room 5 are focussing on veggie gardens and recycling. We hope it doesn’t get too messy!
Room 6, Room7 and Room 15 are studying life cycles. We wonder what their focus is on?
Room 9 are studying nature/animals and they’re doing a power point on it! Room 10 are studying physical earth winds. We hope they don’t get blown away. Room 11 are studying physical and chemical changes in everyday materials.
Room 12 and 13 are studying chemical science and separating solutions. Cool!
Wow, we would love to see all these things and we wish them the best of luck.
