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Premier’s Sustainability Awards 2016 – We’re a finalist!

We are excited to announce that CERES Community Environment Park has been selected as a finalist in the Education category for this year’s Premier’s Sustainability Awards for our program CERES Education and Training: Teaching all Generations for Future Read more...
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Why switch to Fairtrade School uniforms?

In Australia, parents spend well over $1 billion per year on school uniforms, but only a very small proportion of this is on Fairtrade (or even ethically sourced) uniforms. Our partner Etiko writes about why schools should consider making the transition Read more...
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CERES Incursions – New Biodiversity Programs

Our new Biodiversity Land Incursion programs are now ready for bookings and feature activities available to students from Prep to Year 12. New activities include how to designing and starting a school kitchen garden, constructing new outdoor spaces and Read more...
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What Inspires Me – Sarah Nedelkos

This month we interview Sarah Nedelkos, Sustainability Coordinator at Banyule Primary School. Sarah has implemented a Whole School approach to sustainability. Banyule Primary School is currently at 4Star, but with support from the whole school community, Read more...
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CERES Training – Sustainability for Organisations

Our new ‘Sustainability for Organisations’ section of the Hub has been created for learn local organisations to support embedding sustainability into their education and training and organisational practices. Visit the page now to access resources Read more...
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St Joseph’s School Story

15th September 2016

St Joseph’s School Story In 2014 St Joseph’s became a Resourcesmart School. ResourceSmart is a Victorian Government program that helps schools benefit from embedding sustainability in everything they

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People, Behaviour Change and Community Engagement

14th September 2016

Event date : November 22, 2016

This workshop is part of the CERES Environment Education Course but has been designed for special interest, single PD days for teachers and other individuals who can't commit to the full 8 weeks.

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Water Use, Quality and Sensitive Urban Design

14th September 2016

Event date : November 15, 2016

This workshop is part of the CERES Environment Education Course but has been designed for special interest, single PD days for teachers and other individuals who can't commit to the full 8 weeks.

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Waste, Organic Recycling and Life Cycle Analysis

14th September 2016

Event date : November 8, 2016

This workshop is part of the CERES Environment Education Course but has been designed for special interest, single PD days for teachers and other individuals who can't commit to the full 8 weeks.

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Energy Use, Climate Change and Renewable Energy

14th September 2016

Event date : October 25, 2016

This workshop is part of the CERES Environment Education Course but has been designed for special interest, single PD days for teachers and other individuals who can't commit to the full 8 weeks.

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Biodiversity & Sustainable Food Systems

14th September 2016

Event date : October 18, 2016

This workshop is part of the CERES Environment Education Course but has been designed for special interest, single PD days for teachers and other individuals who can't commit to the full 8 weeks.

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Environmental Education Course

14th September 2016

Tuesday 11 October – 6 December 2016 8 sessions from 10:00am – 4:00pm Interested in creating change for sustainability through education and communication? CERES has been in the business of

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September 2016 Sustainable School of the Month – St Augustine’s School, Frankston South

12th September 2016

To celebrate Frankston City’s status as Australia’s Sustainable City of the Year 2015, each month from June to November a local school will be chosen as the Sustainable School of the Month and be featured

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National Tree Planting Day

11th September 2016

Below is our newsletter article for National Tree Planting Day at our school. 

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Energy Expo

10th September 2016

Our 3/4 Energy Expo For Term 3 the grade 3/4‘s focused on Energy. During the term we learnt about energy and all of the different types. We focused on Heat Energy and how it is generated around our home.

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Our Waste Journey

8th September 2016

Please see attached PDF for out waste journey story.

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Naranga’s Clean Up Day

7th September 2016

                                                     

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Global_Samoa

CERES Global Update & upcoming trips

7th September 2016

Over the mid year winter break, we’ve been busy in Timor, China, Arnhem Land, and Samoa. It has actually been our busiest period to date, and we’re delighted to see so many people engaging

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Why switch to Fairtrade School Uniforms?

7th September 2016

Etiko is the Australian pioneer in ethically sourced garments, footwear and sports equipment. Etiko was the first company in Australia to be granted Fairtrade certification for a non-food product and has

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Enviro Week

6th September 2016

This week Valkstone Primary School celebrated Enviro Week. We started the week off at assembly with tips to the school community on Sustainability. At our Team Green Meeting we had fun with a Environment

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Etiko Case Study – Waterfull Gully Pre-School (Rosebud)

6th September 2016

Waterfall Gully preschool approached Etiko in 2015 for 600 kids tops (short and long-sleeved) and 25 teacher t-shirts. In 2016 they came back for a repeat order, and are now also considering kids zip-up

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CERES Community Environment Park – finalist in the Premier’s Sustainability Awards 2016

2nd September 2016

We are excited to announce that CERES Community Environment Park has been selected as a finalist in the Education category for this year’s Premier’s Sustainability Awards for our program CERES

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Water, Waste & Biodiversity at the bay

31st August 2016

Mentone Primary School students participated in a DRI workshop and created this presentation to educate about keeping waste out of the bay for water health and marine life as well as improving biodiversity

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Save the bay

31st August 2016

  Mentone Primary School students wrote this song and made the presentation to educate about keeping the bay clean for marine life. The whole school learnt the song!    

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Water buckets under drippers

31st August 2016

Empty containers into collection buckets and students then have fun watering the plants with the watering cans. It is amazing the amount of water that would otherwise go to waste.

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