Clean Up Australia Day - Sunday the 7^th of March.

Our sustainability teachers are working with our students to develop the knowledge, skills, values, and world views necessary to contribute to more sustainable patterns of living. While our students are learning, exploring, and acting on making a change within our school, we encourage our St John’s community to step up and help make a difference also. Head out to local gardens, parks, playgrounds, rivers, and bushland to clean up and collect rubbish polluting our environment. Invite your friends and families to join you so we can all make a difference. Remember to wear safety gear such as gloves, closed shoes, sunscreen, and hats. If you would like to share photos of you and your family participating that we could include on our school Facebook page or Newsletter, please send them to us by email to office.sjaps@cg.catholic.edu.au. You can find out how to join a local community clean up by going to the Clean Up Australia Day website.

School's Clean Up Day

St John’s will be holding their own Clean Up Day as a whole school on Friday the 5^th of March. Students will be cleaning up any rubbish within our school and our surrounding footpaths, serving our community and environment.

Students must bring:

• School hat
• water bottle
• sensitive sunscreen if required

In an effort to be more sustainable and reuse items, we would really appreciate if students could bring in:

• plastic bags
• old gardening or rubber gloves
• tongs
• Any other items useful to assist students with safely collecting and picking up the rubbish found around our school

This will help reduce the number of disposable gloves and plastic bags purchased and reuse old items instead.

Students will be washing their hands with soap when returning to the classrooms after the big clean up and there will be sanitiser available.

After the event we will be compiling the bags of rubbish and looking at how much was collected as a whole school. Throughout this term there will be further discussions with students during their sustainability lessons about how we can pledge to make some changes at reducing waste at St John’s and within our community.

Rebecca Neiberding & Allison Lock

Sustainability Teachers