Victorian schools invited to share in $200,000 of funding
Two hundred schools in Victoria will benefit from funding under the Powerful Youth Projects funded by Momentum Energy through its partnership with Junior Landcare.
Native Nursery and Teaching Garden
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.
Grossmann Goes Green
With an army of volunteers, the waterway was restored and became an opportunity for students to use when studying environmental sciences and geography, in particular its role in providing students with the chance to water test. The renewed waterway area allows drainage from the school and storm water to flow directly into the Hunter River and provides a home for native wildlife and insects.
Upcycled rainbow garden of succulents
Blackett Child Care Centre has overcome some issues to use the Yates Creative Gardening Grant to create an upcycling tyre garden. The centre researched the most sustainable garden for the centre’s needs and decided on a rainbow garden of succulents.
Recycling up the library bins!
Grade 3 and 4 students at St. Albans Heights Primary School upcycled library bins to create a new garden at the school. The project incorporated both the science and art curriculum through planting of the garden and the design of the bins. Students mosaicked the outside of the old library tubs, and planted native and flowering plants. The project utilised recycled materials to enhance the school’s environment.