This year at New Farm our sustainably projects has taken us on an amazing journey of discovery. We have been working on a variety of projects with our class crew. Below are some items we have achieved for 2024:

Students have been learning about upcycling recycling. By using clean recycled items, we can make new products and gain a second use before recycling. These items include:

• single sided photocopying can be cut down and stapled to create a note book
• milk or juice bottle can be repurposed into a scoop or bailer
• tissue boxes can be cut to make a book mark
• coloured scrap paper and cardboard can be used for collage materials
• using empty plastic veggie packaging can we repurposed into seedling trays
• glass jars, particularly passata jars, can be used to create vases for water plants, add some wrapping paper or scrap fabric around the jar for decoration.

* We held our first annual Go Green for EcoMarine competition during October.

* We conducted our annual bird audit. With some surprising data. We have seen a decrease in pigeons since last year and an increase in native birds.

Our major project this year was simplifying our waste system. We have developed a 3 bins system. Yellow for all recycling, green for Containers for Change and red for general waste. Through this we have seen a reduction in the amount of general waste across the school and believe this has also contributed to the reduction in pigeons at our school.