Growing a Greener Future Across Our Campuses
From preparing garden beds and planting seedlings to learning about pollinators and composting, students across our campuses have been embracing hands-on sustainability initiatives with enthusiasm and care.
At Canowindra, our Junior Rangers Club has enjoyed getting their hands dirty in the vegetable garden each Tuesday, discovering worms and beetles while preparing the soil and planting beans, chives and spinach seedlings supplied by Brimbank Council. Students also learnt about the important role pollinators play in healthy gardens, planting colourful groundcover flowers to help attract bees and other beneficial insects.
Meanwhile, Middle School students involved in Waa’s Helper Lunchtime Club have been hard at work revitalising garden spaces by preparing beds for planting, establishing a compost system using canteen food scraps and refreshing the gardening area with student-designed posters created over the holiday break.
It has been wonderful to see students working together, learning new skills and developing a deeper connection to sustainability and caring for the environment.
We acknowledge and pay respect to the Marin Balluk people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the Land on which Overnewton Anglican Community College stands. We respect the knowledge that will be forever embedded within the Aboriginal Custodianship of Country and remember the loss of cultures, languages and Lands they have endured. Like the Marin Balluk people, we at Overnewton want to respect the Land, the cultures and the heritages, and learn from those who have come before us in the passing on of knowledge and the teaching of life skills, as well as continue with wise stewardship of our buildings and grounds. We honour their custodianship of this Land and offer them our deep respect.