Equipped with gloves and garbage bags, senior Centaur primary students headed off to their local sports field in support of this year’s National Clean up Australia Day.
Although keeping their school environment clean is a daily practice, the students raced to see who could collect the most papers.
The Junior school members scouted around their own school grounds to get the school into peak ship-shape.
“It is messy all over the world so we have to clean our country up,” kindergarten student Timmy Gullickson said.
Centaur students and staff manage and monitor their school’s resources, waste and physical surroundings, then take on activities to protect and improve the local environment.Being involved in the biggest environmental event, students learn about the impact of rubbish on our natural environment while performing a great community service. “We encourage and support our students ‘going green’ through numerous activities and help them to learn to care for the environment as part of their everyday lives,” Going Green team member Misha Ivers said.
“ The aim is to develop positive values and attitudes about themselves, others, the world that they live in and their future”.“We don’t want our school environment to be a rubbish dump,” senior student Martin Xiao said.
