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Brimbank City Council Schools Education Programs Brimbank Schools Inner North-West of Melbourne 70 schools, 25 suburbs Over 150 countries represented Range of low to high socio economic Introduction to

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Brimbank

City Council

Schools Education Programs

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Brimbank Schools

Inner North-West of Melbourne
70 schools, 25 suburbs
Over 150 countries represented
Range of low to high socio

economic

Introduction to ‘sustainability’

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Brimbank education package

Schools Sustainability Resources Kit
Teacher Environment Network
Kids Teaching Kids conference
Biodiversity workshops
Guidance for Green Teams
Growing Food in Brimbank Schools

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Brimbank Teacher Environment Network (BTEN)

Run every term
Over 200 teachers invited
90 teachers attended last 12

months

Group size ranges from 15 – 30
Topics include:
Waste audits
Growing school vegetable

gardens

Sustainability in the

curriculum

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Kids Teaching Kids Conference

5 years running in Brimbank
Six local schools
130 students
Future environmental leaders
Think Eat Save

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Conservation education

Walk and talks along local

creeks

Planting days
Learning about our local

species

Life cycles and food webs
Clean Up Australia Days

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Brimbank Schools Sustainability Resources

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Resources

5 topics linked with

national curriculum

Introduces key terms
Links up with other great

resources

PowerPoint ‘the story of’…
Electronic and hard copy

versions in schools

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Three year levels, with

relevant activities for each year level.

Aligned with AusVELS, and

national curriculum framework

Sustainability as Cross

Curriculum Priority

Available for other

Councils to adapt for their communities

Presentations for classroom

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Success so far

Teachers using the Resources as their

intro into their topics

Schools have increased food waste

audits, composting, recycling

Teachers unfamiliar with ‘sustainability’

are finding it easy to introduce the topics

Teachers finding it easier to embed

sustainability into their curriculum

Five Victorian Councils keen to adapt

Resources for their school communities

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