Monthly Archives: March 2013

HAPPY BILBY EASTER COLOURING COMPETITION

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BILBIES NOT BUNNIES

 

Our bilbies are thrown a lifeline:

 

Australia’s endangered bilby has been thrown a lifeline. On 6 March 2013 at Dreamworld Queensland, Melbourne Chocolate Bilby Manufacturer Fyna Foods Australia Pty Ltd (Pink Lady) will meet with the Save the Bilby Fund to present a $10,000 cheque to help save the bilbies from extinction. For more bilby information go to

SAVE THE BILBY FUND WEBSITE

You too can help by buying BILBIES not BUNNIES for Easter this year.

COLOURING COMPETITION!!!!!

Click on the picture or the link below to download and print the colouring competition.

 

STBF EASTER BILBY COLOURING ENTRY FORM

INTERNATIONAL EARTH HOUR 2013

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 MAKE A PLEDGE TO HELP THE

PLANET

Earth Hour – the phenomenon that was started in Australia and embraced by the world – is returning at 8.30pm on 23 March.

 

Earth Hour is a gathering of the global community to show what one simple idea can achieve, and what one person’s actions can inspire. Thanks to your support, it has become the largest global movement for the environment. It is much, much more than a symbolic action of switching off lights for an hour; it’s a continuous movement driving real actions, big and small, that are changing the world we live in. From new legislation in the Russian parliament to better protect seas from oil pollution, to the initiation of two huge reforestation projects in Africa – the impact of Earth Hour is widespread and real.

 

In 2013, Australians are leading the world again. This Earth Hour, we aren’t just switching off their lights as a show of unity in protecting the planet. We’re taking action into their own hands, and pledging to switch on to renewable energy.

The reason – our planet is in serious need of our help. As energy demands and carbon emissions continue to rise, and the negative impacts of climate change increase, we must stop burning fossil fuels to meet our energy needs. And with electricity prices skyrocketing, there’s never been a better time to switch to clean, renewable energy.

 

For more information click on the link below or on any of the pictures:

http://earthhour.org.au/

 

 

Rubbish Free Lunch Winners Week 7

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Rubbish Free Lunch Day Winners Week 7 Term 1

Congratulations to our winning classes for last week’s Rubbish Free Lunch Day. The winning junior class was 2C with 96% rubbish free lunches in their class and the winning senior classes were 6B and 6D with 95% rubbish free lunches in their class. Our winning classes are rewarded with 15 minutes extra recess! Congratulations!

CLASS

SCORE

CLASS

SCORE

CLASS

SCORE

CLASS

SCORE

PA

89%

1C

79%

3B

69%

5B

73%

PB

75%

1D

86%

3C

87%

5C

75%

PC

90%

1/2Y

78%

3D

58%

5D

75%

PD

78%

2A

84%

3/4Y

57%

5E

88%

PE

80%

2B

No result

4A

Camp

6A

65%

PF

61%

2C

96%

4B

Camp

6B

95%

1A

64%

2D

79%

4C

Camp

6C

73%

1B

76%

3A

84%

5A

No result

6D

95%

SUBWAY LUNCH

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SUBWAY RUBBISH FREE LUNCH

Congratulations to both SUBWAY and MWPS on joining forces to reduce the amount of rubbish generated by SUBWAY lunch days. Nearly all of the sandwich wrapping, serviettes and cookie bags were able to be recycled, all of the drink containers were recycled and SUBWAY collected all of the rubbish that couldn’t be recycled. This meant that our SUBWAY Lunch Day became a Rubbish Free Lunch Day as well! Quite an achievement! Well done!

REGULAR PROGRAM DAYS AT MWPS

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REGULAR PROGRAM DAYS

  Target Tuesdays 

An announcement will be made at 2.20pm on Target Tuesdays. All students will stop play and proceed to their allocated area in order to pick up rubbish. The target will be located  on the basketball courts as per the announcement.

 

EARTH HOURS

Earth Hour Conditions and Process

  • There will be at least two Earth Hours per term, the dates of which will be decided at the beginning of the term and added to the term planner.
  • Earth Hour will be run on Fridays in the 2.30-3.30pm block.
  • If temperatures are extreme, an announcement will be made to change the time and date of the Earth Hour to ensure heating and cooling may be used.
  • Data will be collected in order to compare usage on a normal day and on an Earth Hour day.

   BRING IT IN – TAKE IT HOME PROGRAM

& RUBBISH FREE LUNCH DAYS

  • Food wrappings must not be taken out into the yard.

  • Food wrappings must be taken home.

  • Food may be consumed outside but wrappings are to be removed first.

  • Brain food is to be encouraged in class.

  • Students are to be given 5 mins before recess and 10 mins before lunch to consume food.

  • These points apply to snacks and lunch food, including lunch orders and Subway orders (although now SUBWAY has agreed to take their rubbish back to the company…..a small win for our Rubbish Free community).

  • Rubbish Free Lunch days will be held weekly on THURSDAYS.

  • All classes will  participate and number of rubbish free lunches are recorded and sent to co-ordinator of program.

  • Results of classes are tallied and published in school newsletter.

  • Winning junior and senior classes will be announced at assembly and awarded the trophy andcertificate.

  • Winning class will receive 15mins extra recess. Class teacher will supervise class during this “free time”.

 

Clean up Australia Day

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Clean Up Australia Day at Mt Waverley PS

 Sunday (March 3rd ) was Clean Up Australia Day. This event is held every year around Australia and tonnes of rubbish is collected and disposed of by volunteers. Mount Waverley PS participated again this year in this program as we aim towards being an environmentally friendly, waste-wise school and community. We cleaned the school on Friday 1st March as part of our contribution towards cleaning up Australia. All of the children were involved and we collected almost 18kgs of rubbish.  This amount of rubbish is quite small for a school of our size and we should congratulate ourselves on keeping MWPS relatively rubbish free. This is an excellent effort by staff, students and the whole school community! Thank you for your support.