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.
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.
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.
