The Sustainability Hub

At St Joseph’s Black Rock the students are very careful with the use of electricity. As part of the Grade 5 /6  currriculum every second year, the students learn about sustainable energy types and practices. On a Wednesday afternoon the Green Team visit every class […]

This year our Year 5 P.Y.P. Unit of Inquiry for How the World Works was about energy. Each student looked into an individual energy source. We were asked to create a plan for an energy efficient house on our block of land, which we looked […]

In Term 2 2017, the sustainability student action team conducted a Cool Australia Energy Audit at Roxburgh Rise PS. The main purpose of the audit was for the students to understand the relationship between energy use at school and at home. Some of the findings […]

CERES and Mark Smith from Planet Savers have joined forces to re-launch the years 5 – 12 school energy auditing program! Mark is an extremely passionate champion for the environment, dedicated to using education to create an awareness of effective energy saving strategies and products. […]

Our Environmental Education course is back again for 2017!

The attached document is the kids review of our energy audit with Planet Savers last year.

SOLAR BOAT CHALLENGE On Tuesday May 2, St Therese students from year 5/6 participated in a challenge to build and race a solar boat. The students elected to participate in the program, supported and run by Surfcoast Energy Group, and spent time designing and building […]

  The Sustainability Team has been planning a new, whole school project. OOOOOOH! This project’s purpose is to reduce energy consumption. But what does that mean??? Hmmmmm…. As a whole school we aim to reduce the amount of energy or electricity we are using when […]

The future is bright for green jobs with skills sets such as biofuels research, wave energy producers, solar cell technicians, next generation battery engineering, plant genomics, wind energy workers, and urban food growers to name a few jobs among the estimated 15 – 60 million green jobs that may be on the horizon.

The Human Powered Classroom is an exciting new education space being developed at CERES!