• Vegetable patch allocated to each room for each room – Children engage in planting vegetables and herbs relevant to the season. They are encouraged to explore and water the plants.
• Worm Farm – The children are encouraged to collect their food scraps and feed the worms. They are also supported to understand complex concepts of our eco system through our worm farm. The worm tea which is harvested is used in our Veggie patches.
• Rearing chickens – At our service we have two pet hens. Coco and Karva were the names given to our chocks by our 2018 graduating batch. The children engage in recycling their food scraps for Coco and Karva, collect the eggs from the hen’s house each morning and further understand the process of composting their feces.
• Yellow recycle bin and rubbish bins in each room – We encourage the children to use the bins correctly which in turn supports building their knowledge on recycling and waste minimization.
• Separate bins in the kitchen – to support a service wide approach to sustainability and support children through a role modeled approach.
• Recycle resources area in each room – We encourage children to bring lids, paper towel rolls, empty plastic bottles and small cardboard boxes from home. At the Centre we are collecting boxes, paper toilet rolls, empty milk bottles and anything that is possible to recycle.
• Craft activities made with recycle resources – educators follow this practice in the attempt to reduce environmental impact.
• Group discussions and educational videos about sustainability practices – We engage children in discussions about sustainable practices through our projects and morning and afternoon meetings, such as noticing how the rubbish bin is full, how scraps and left over after meal times, how sustainability practices is at home, etc.
• Display poster about recycle and non-recycle – These are placed in Dolphin, Seahorse room and in the kitchen.
• Meal area – We use a worm farm, composting, leftover food container to reduce food waste within the service. We encourage children to place worm farm, fruits scraps and left-over food into separate containers.
• Save water, Save energy – Staff are role model of energy and water conservation practices within our service. We ensure we turn off lights and aircons when room the is not in use, we empty water play containers into the garden and explain to the children its benefits. We support the children to understand water saving habits (eg. turning taps off, using half flush) and we add mulching to our gardens to reduce water needs.

Promote sustainability practice every single day, children will grow in caring for our environment.

• Constantly remind and revisit current practices such as supporting the children to understand how to sort out waste in to the three bins.
  • Red lid for general wasted
  • Yellow lid for recycled material
  • Green lid for fruits and veggie scraps, cutting grass, pruning trees, etc.
• Introduce environmental dates: Earth Day, Walk to school day, National Recycling Week, Backyard birds Survey Days every term.
• Build Up recycling bin in each room, compost bin and worm scraps bin (involve all children)
• Restriction of printing / Recycle tray in the office for printing.
• Involve older children in discussion about the weather (air quality, pollution levels and drought).
• Using recycling resources and stimulate children to participate in a recycling programs (carefully sort out paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, tissues, or paper towel).
• Get: “Energy Savers” and “Water Savers
• Provide families of sustainability messages that should include locally relevant issues and information (local plants and wildlife, local bin colours and recycling systems etc.)
• Add a sustainability section to the newsletter. Included experiences with the children and events.
• Buy books with environmental content to share with the children.
• Add Sustainability as a standing item in all staff meeting agendas
• Use only natural or green cleaning products.
• Get a rainwater tank for water play and gardening.