We’re going to investigate insects! Explore your outdoor surroundings to see if your habitat is home to bees and other beneficial insects. Use the field guide to help you get the buzz on bees and other local insects.
We’re going to identify animals in their habitats by exploring either your backyard, schoolyard, a local park or some other natural place. Investigate your surroundings to see which animals are sharing the local habitat with you. Use the field guide to help you identify animals in your community.
The Woolworths Junior Landcare Grants program launched in 2018 and has already engaged more than 400,000 students and supported over 4,900 primary schools and early learning centres to help get children hands-on with caring for the natural environment. Woolworths also supports the Junior Landcare Learning Centre to help educators across the country run Junior Landcare projects that link with curriculum and framework outcomes.
Miami State High School has utilised the Yates Creative Gardening Grant to begin a school-based community project with wide-reaching environmental impacts. The school community feels strongly about protecting the dunes that are located 200m from the school. As such, the school worked with the wider community through the Gold Coast Beachcare to propagate and plant native plants on the dunes. The project created both a teaching garden for use in the study of dunes and helped to revegetate the local North Burleigh/South Nobbys foreshore.
In 2015 the St Agnes Catholic Primary School in Brisbane, QLD received $980 funding for a multi-faceted gardening and sustainability project, dubbed the “Grow to Live – Live to Grow project”. The project involved the construction of two worm farms, 5 organic vegetable gardens and a vertical vegetable garden. This Yates grant allowed children to interactively learn about the importance of environmental stewardship, waste management, recycling and organic gardening.