2. ENVIROSCHOOLS 2009
Four-ish Questions
What does being an EnviroSchool
mean to you?
What do you think we are doing?
What concepts/issues do you think
we should be covering within our
programme?
What areas of the school would you
identify as being areas of
environmental concern? Why?
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3. ENVIROSCHOOLS GOALS
1. 25% of HL staff and students undertake
Action for Sustainability in 2009.
2. Each term hold a HL ES network meeting for
sharing, planning, strategising and
reviewing.
3. Create a local EFS/AFS expert list
4. Run 2 workshops in 2009 to support the
vision. One of which is to be an EFS
workshop, to be held sometime in term 1.
5. Form a green-team (with badges), and
taking one trip each term in 2009 to
events, people, places and schools which
relate to current AFS or the vision.
6. Create a vision mapping team to make and
display a final draft of the vision map from
t4 2008.
7. Create opportunities for other 75% of
teachers and students to be involved in AFS.
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4. ENVIROSCHOOLS REQUIREMENT
Each team is required to teach at least one
‘Enviro’ unit during the year.
This is a unit based on the EnviroSchools Action
Learning Model based on Education/Action for
Sustainability.
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6. PROCESS AND OPTIONS
1. Grounds don’t have enough artisitc features.
2. We don’t have healthy school gardens that produce food and
provide learning experiences.
Vision Map Based…
Issues Based… 3. Natural habitats aren’t monitored and used for environmental
learning.
Choose an individual
4. We don’t use recycled paper for stationary in the classroom or
project or adopt a
office.
project area from the
5. We don’t have separate bins for different sorts of waste.
vision map.
6. We don’t practice energy saving in each room.
7. Some windows aren’t shaded from the summer sun by trees.
As a teacher, class,
Identify any 8. We don’t produce our own energy.
team or school,
sustainability issues 9. Our café doesn’t sell a range of fresh fruit.
choose a
associated with the 10. Our school doesn’t celebrate national and local
sustainability issue
project or project area. environmental events (such as arbor day, seaweek,
to address.
conservation week).
11. We don’t encourage staff to carpool or to not use cars.
12. We don’t encourage parents to car pool or not use cars/ use
Either:
buses.
- undertake a project aimed at solving the issue,
13. We don’t organise community service projects top assist
then plan learning around the issue.
other environmental groups and projects.
OR – plan learning around the issue then undertake
14. We don’t make a point of visiting natural places for
a project aimed at solving the issue.
environmental learning experiences.
15. The school doesn’t maximise environmetal learning
Update the vision map with your progress and
experiences.
celebrate what you have achieved.
16. Some areas are under-used, abused, unnecessarily out of
bounds, or not very functional (gully, café area, old skateway
and walkway, old camp ground, pukekura portal, pool – see
more below).
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