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NSBHS Environment Committee Meetings
Environment Committee Meetings are held every Tuesday lunchtime in Laboratory 6. The Committee makes decisions based on the principle of consensus. To quote wikipedia:
Ideally, achieving consensus requires serious treatment of every group member's considered opinion. Those who wish to take up some action want to hear those who oppose it, because they count on the fact that the ensuing debate will improve the consensus. Action without resolution of considered opposition will be rare and done with attention to minimize damage to relationships.
SENS - Sustainable Educators North Sydney
Sustainable Educators North Sydney (SENS), an initiative of North Sydney Council provides support to teachers of sustainability and environmental education in the North Sydney Local Government Area. A key feature of the network is to build capacity for teachers and school environment committees, provide links to professionals in the field, and facilitate information exchange between schools and education organisations.
For more information about SENS go here
Lane Cove West Public School
In 2010, North Sydney Boys High and Lane Cove West Public School will be working together in order to implement their School Environmental Plans. The senior students will be mentoring the younger and visa versa!
Minutes 18/11/09: Introductory Workshop
| Energy | Water | Biodiversity | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|
| Using natural lighting and putting posters up to remind students to close lights | Installing rankwater tanks/water tanks | Getting more native plants | Using plastic bags to make yarns |
| Opening windows instead of using air-conditioners and assigning jobs to people to do so | Installing automatic urinals (for flushing) | Getting pets for classes | Giving reusable bags to children |
| Using renewable power such as hydro, wind or solar power | Placing taps above gardens | Posters to stop people walking through gardens | Recycling cans and paper |
| Decreasing the power usage in general | Repairing/Upgrading pipes to not leak water | Getting more grass/synthetic grass | Using less paper |
| Writing letters to the government for funding for power alternatives | Upgrading bubblers so that they will turn off automatically after a time period | Growing food | Using scrap paper |
| Getting energy saving lights | Reusing water | Planting more trees | Promoting the use of bags for things |
| Turning off computers before/after school and when they are not being used | Checking the water meter constantly | Getting possum boxes | Giving everyone bags for canteen use |
| Changing the appliances in the school to energy saving ones (fridges, microwaves etc.) | Getting better taps that save more water and do not leak | Creating fruit trees for animals/birds | Buying recycled materials like paper and cardboard |
| Not using heating | Limiting the amount of water used a day | Feeding wildlife | Developing a compost bin |
Tuesday November 9
Draft Agenda
1. Planning meeting follow up
2. Waste brief
3. Lane Cove West Public School Request
Minutes
Planning Meeting
- Group leadership positions are rotational
- Assigned new members to groups
- Planning time for groups
- Groups need to work on wiki
Mrs Hughes
- Mrs Hughes would like to have a meeting with the entire group
- Concern regarding the state of the grounds
- Meeting scheduled for 17/11/2009 (please note this was finalised after the meeting - FM)
Leadership Day
- Meeting between leadership groups, environment group is sending members
- Representatives were voted in on Planning day
- Names are currently on the wiki
Plastic Bins
- Bins are ready; have been rolled out to the playground
- Possible mediums for promoting the bins: Intranet, Daily Bulletin; Posters
- Communication group needs to work on this
Plastic Bottles
- 3 for 1 scheme - via Brita
- Need final quotes for cost of stainless steel and nalgene bottles
- Possible joint venture with NSG
- Possible incorporation into the year 7 pack, placing NSB logo on bottles; need P&C funding (rfer Thomas Suo); joint venture with Prefects
Cans
- Possibly just have a can locker, where people can throw cans in instead of visiting the committee - near B4
Awards
- Congratulations to the Matthews for winning regional sustainbaility award
- Possibility of spectators from environment committee at awards presentation; McCrossin to follow up
2010 PLANNING MEETING OCTOBER 29
The planning meeting will be looking at 2009 outcomes and working out 2010 priorities. If you want to attend you must put your name on the following list. Please include name and year group.
List of Environment Committee members who will be attending the planning day
Staff and Co-Ordinators
- Fiona McCrossin
- Tanya Hofler
- Fiona Douglas
Students
- David Xu Year 10
- Daniel Chen Year 10
- Kenny Ng Year 10
- Alex Peng Yr 10
- Raymond Shi Year 10 (Soz won't be able to make it anymore)
- Navid Behzad Year 10
- Stephen Wu Year 10
- Nathan Isaacson Year 10
- Jonathan Au Year 10
- James Tian Year 10
- Marvin Law Year 10
- Paul Mai Year 10
- Ben Ma Year 10
- Hubert Wan Year 10
- Leo Dong Year 10
- Charlie Huang Year 10
- Wenxi Liang Year 10
- Jonathan Zaharias Year 7
- Thomas Zhou Year 7
- Kartheek Garikapati Year 10
- Daniel Huynh Year 10
- Charly Chen Year 10
- Trevor Wang Year 10
- Thomas Suo Year 10
- Alistair Herschel Year 10
- Anthony Leung
- Alexander Cornish
- Edward Chang
- Marvin Law Year 10
- Dennis Xin Year 10
- Alexander Greenbank Year 10
- Anthony Chan Year 9
- Tim Green Year 11
- Jaidan Stevens Year 11
- Richard Wang Year 10
- Allen Huang Year 10
- David Hwang Year 10
- David Ji Year 10
- Stanley Tong Year 10
- Jeff Che Year 10
- Ike Bai Year 10
- Lucas Bui Year 10
- Brian Xiong Year 10
- Steven An Year 10
- Nicholas Na Year 10
Outcomes/ Minutes
1. Committee debriefed on their 2009 acheivements: 350; recycling bins and education about these; YouthDecide; making learning about the environment fun; better management; EnviroDocs; increased membership; increased awareness; greater school involvement; represented Northern Sydney Region at opening of Education Week (met Minister for Education and D-G); E-waste recycled; teamwork; Open Day; Ultra-Eco Tour; SENS; badges; curriculum entrenchment - Grime Scene Year 8; Water mmeters; solar panels; enviro friendly gym lights; retrofitting junior boys toilets; Environment Committee on school promotional materials e.g banners
2. Committee decided to have coordinators for each working group - based on the NSBHS SEMP. When members are asked to represent the school they will rotate the responsibility in order to maximise their leadership training.
3. The following boys were elected to represent the Committee at the NSBHS Planning Day December 14: Justin Chen; Charlie Huang; Wenxi Liang; David Xu; Edward Chang: reserves R1 - Alex Peng; R2 Hubert Wan
4. Working groups were declared open for membership.
5. Members elected to join working groups based on a) the 2007-2010 SEMP and b) tasks that have been identified as needing specific groups based on monitoring the Plan's implementation. This complied with the need for adaptive management in environmental management/ planning.
6. The groups are: Research; Energy; Water; Biodiversity; Materials: purchase; reduction; reuse; Learning Spaces; Networking/ Communication; Planning and Management/ Executive Liaison; Competitions; Email; Wiki; and Finance.
7. Working groups discussed and recorded expansion of SEMP strategies and actions
8. With their knowledge of the 7-10 curriculum, working groups discussed environmental foci in current NSBHS programmes
9. Working groups discussed and recorded how SEMP actions could be incorporated into the 7-10 curriculum.
10. Groups asked to record their outcomes on the NSBHS wiki by next Tuesday.
Draft Agenda Tuesday October 20
Apologies
All of the people in Yr 10 doing HSC IPT this Thursday.
Allocation of tasks
- Facilitator:
- Minutes
Acceptance of last meeting's minutes
Team Updates
- Planning Day: members present at this meeting will be asked to come to our planning meeting, date and venue to be confirmed - currently October 29. Will need to check availability of rooms as HSC in progress.
Minutes: NSBHS Environment Committee
Minutes for 22nd September 2009
- 350 - Possible events/locations for 350 include: Opera House, Sports Tournament, Art Instalment, and Dance. It will be held on 24 October 2009 (or other date if this not possible – team to investigate
- SENS meeting – occurring between 4pm and 5 pm today at North Sydney Dem. Students are to meet at the science staffroom. Ms McCrossin; Dr Hadjichari; Alex Peng to attend.
- Nagalene Bottles – are hard plastic bottles which so not contain PBA. The enviro group is looking to order 150 of these to give to year 7 2010. We will also ask other Year groups to nominate whether they would like to buy one. Other alternatives to nagalene include steel bottles. Refer to relevant pages of enviro forum
- Possum Boxes – NS council bushcare program have given environment group possum box designs which should go to Mr Hunt. Possum boxes can be put up around our school but not St Leonard’s Park. More information on the Wiki. We need a group to work on biodiversity.
- Group Restructure – The group will choose leaders for various working groups on October 29. This will be a planning day. Ms McCrossin to post draft agenda on the Wiki “Events” page. ALL members can post proposed agenda items; brainstorm ideas. Only those boys listed on the “Participant” list will be able to attend. Also need to think about your proposed working group affiliation.
- Solar Schools – Solar panels will be installed on gym roof this or next holidays.
- Research Group – Need people to look at certain articles and to report findings to group. Groups will also be allocated research tasks as concensed by the Committee e.g. what is PBA and how does it impact on human health? Why is “350” a significant number wrt climate change?
- Fundraising: need to work out a way to raise funds. Need to liaise with Charitees; SRC and think of other methods e.g. cake day.
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Minutes for September 15
YOUth Decide
- Process finalised. Team to continue to network to school via visiting classrooms, posters etc.
EnviroDocs
- Sessions continuing; some problems with Friday afternoons for some students. McCrossin will mention at next session. Poster to be finalised wrt wording and placed on wiki. File to be emailed to McCrossin for networking to other schools.
GCS
- Stephen Wu, Alex Peng and Kenny Ng to lead this; making sure that GCS process is followed
P&C working Bee
- 9-1 this Sunday - arrive when/attend for as long as you can
- Following members said they could come: Kenny Ng; William Chen; Stephen Wu; Edward Chang (subject to consultation with parest); Marvin LaW (to confirm)
Plastic
- Stainless steel bottles V Nalgene plastic
- Team reported information obtained re best cost for stainless steel
- Team to contact both for best price; request energy consumption in production per unit - carbon footprint.
Assembly
- Committee will have a permanent spot in the assembly. Need to be prepared and carry over if assembly cancelled.
Research Team
- Each member assigned to a magazine/ source
- Info to be used to spark idaes
- Cadmus assigned to popular science
Planning Day
- to be held second week back Term 4
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Minutes for 2/9/2009
Facilitator: Alex Greenbank
Minutes Yuchen Lui
- Energy group to report on activities next meeting
- Water group to report on activities next meeting
- GCS meeting (members needed who can stay behind certain Fridays)
- EnviroDoc member who is also in GCS needed to facilitate between the two projects
- E-Waste project was a big success but the group wishes to consider strategies to have it on a more regular basis (biannually or annually?)
- Australian Youth Climate Change Coalition wishes to have a YOUth Decide vote on Climate Change actions to be taken. Volunteers needed to facilitate it at school.
- Assembly announcements was big success
Team Updates
- GCS - CEE visit and follow up NB Rotary and wiki
- EnviroDocs - poster and impending meeting September 4
- Community - posters; assembly processes
- Wiki - issues wrt NSG; SENS; need for some work on pages NB SEMP priorities; forum summaries - rotated
- Water - monitoring use
- Energy - meeting with Mrs Hughes?
Other updates
- YOUth Decide - what are we going to do for this?
- P&C Working Bee September 20 - what are our priorities; The Green update
- Posters
Badges
group consensus on Year 7-10 recipients
SEMPtember 2008 Workshop
online survey to determine progress?
Planning Day
end of Term 3 - proposed date and foci
Other business
SENS (Sustainable Educators North Sydney) Meetings
These meetings are held every two months and allow you to share ideas with other students working on sustainability in the North Sydney LGA (Local Government Area). Any member of the NSBHS Committee is able to attend.
Next SENS meeting
The date and time for the next SENS meeting is:
TBA
If you want to attend this meeting; just add your name to the list on the SENS page ie at:
http://nsb-enviro.wikidot.com/sens
Just click the edit button at the bottom of the page and add your name!
25/08/2009
Team Update – Waste
Facilitator – Alex Greenbank
Timekeeper – Ike Bai
Waste
- Phase out plastic
- Haven’t set time frame – end of year or later
- Main place
- Canteen
- Drink cans
- Work on recycling plastic bins
Wiki
- nsb-enviro.wikidot.com – check bing
- necessary to sign in
- give out merit awards for good posts
- Wiki -> Badges
- Sign up – make account on wikidot
- Join up on environment group forum – important announcements, email
Communication
- Join and make ideas
- Expand group
- Innovative ideas -> environment wallpaper
- Primary school -> education
- Wasteland -> redevelop
CEE Visit
- NSB -> GCS
- Envirodocs -> GCS
- Pilot for programs
- Ties in school with India
11am Thursday 27/09 Representative
- Sign up on Wiki
Scots
- Cancelled unil next term
Youth Decides?
- Create change
- Pressure government
- Youth under 25
- Note inside schools
- Climate change
- Related to Copenhagen summit on climate change
- Tell Australia what young people want to do about climate change
Badges
- Rolled out for Yr 11 & 12
Assembly
- Four topics
- Waste
- Recycling
- Envirodocs
Posters
- Envirodocs
- Stephen Wu
18/08/2009
The role of meeting facilitator will be rotated very meeting in order to allow members to increase their skills base.
Waste
- Recycling is still on this Friday (3:15pm to approx. 4:00pm)
- We need to work on E-waste (we’ve essentially been given a 2 week deadline)
- Action: Members involved in plastic recycling, including ‘Plastiki’, will give an update next meeting
Wiki
- Planning to put a ‘draft agenda’ section on the wiki where we can decide on the issues we would like to discuss in the next meeting
- Decided to have an ‘Apologies’ section in the wiki to inform the group if you’re unable to attend the meeting
- We need members to monitor the forum and collect the ideas mentioned in the forum (this role will be rotated)
- Thinking of having a ‘recent updates’ section
Communication
- Action: Members will give feedback on progress next meeting
GCS
- We really need to start uploading content onto the GCS website
- CEE India CEO to visit next week
Multimedia Group
- Sunny Pack (Yr. 10) is in charge of that, contact him if there are any questions or check the forum. The group will be working on the EnviroDocs project and sharing their skills base
Competitions
- Recognition awards for the North Sydney region regarding the environment. We are considering nominating some students.
Grants
- Regarding the solar grant, the panels for our school are waiting to be approved
- The water meters are being installed
- "Schools First" application completed last Friday – the application will be posted on the Wiki
Badges
- Procedure next meeting.
11/08/2009
SENS
all SENS schools now able to access and use Wiki.
EnviroDocs
agreed to hold competition within the Committee to create a flyer/poster advertising for participation. This will be used by North Sydney Council in order to encourage other students in the North Sydney LGA to participate. Also media use (e.g. Mosman Daily). One merit point for students who enter. Four merits for winners. Entries due Friday August 21. Committee meeting on that day will decide winners. Go to the EnviroDocs page on the wiki for information on the project
Need to include:
- About?
- Where?
- When?
- How to register etc.
Global Communities for Sustainability
if you're in this working group please complete the GCS survey. Ms McCrossin will be uploading more information onto the GCS page of the wiki tonight.
Badges
have arrived. Distribution has begun. Badges to be based on merit as discussed in meetings.
++05/08/2009
- We need to try and keep active on the wiki as many announcements will be placed on the wiki.
- For Envirodocs and GCS: we are thinking of possibly having meetings and working on those assignments during Friday afternoons (4pm – 6pm). Post on the wiki if you have any suggestions.
- Recycling: please go to the wiki to sign up for recycling duty which is during Friday afternoons (approx. 3.15pm – 4.00pm).
- Matthew Kwan has suggested that we make a calendar which would indicate important environment group events. If anyone is interested or have any suggestions, please post it on the wiki or contact Ms McCrossin.
09/7/2009 - Planning Meeting
- An introduction to the group modus operandi (McCrossin)
- Individual interests discussed in round table session (refer Justin Chen for list)
- Nominations for working groups
- Wiki training (M Kwan; M Chong)
Energy
- Trevor Wang
- William Chen
- Alistair Herschel
- Raymond Shi
- Kenny Ng
- Carl Gao
- Charlie Huang
- Wenxi Liang
Waste
- Jonathon Zaharias
- Alex Cornish
- Nick Wyche
- Edward Chang
- Kevin Chong
- Abhisht Gupta
Technical/ Website
- Richard Wang
- Hubert Wan
- Daniel Lee
- Kerry Qin
- Stephen Wu
- Ike Bai
- Loui Lu
EnviroDocs
- Hubert Wan
- William Chen
- Trevor Wang
- Stephen Wu
- Daniel Lee
- Loui Lu
- kenny Qin
- Carl Gao
- Kenny Ng
- Charlie Huang
- Wenxi Liang
- Raymond Shi
- Ike Bai
- Richard Wang
Communication
- Daniel Chen
- Marco Lee
- Alex Kim
- Anthony Chan
- Yuanshun Fan
- Lawrence Sun
- James Tian
- David Xu
26/06/2009
Members present
- Calvin Tam
- De Jian Wu
- Ike Bai
- William Chen
- Cadmus To
- Nathan Isaacson
- Justin Chen
- Edward Lee
- Charly Chen
- George Xue
- Andrew Lin
- Anthony Chan
- Marco Lee
- Vincent Pan
- Damien Pan
- Dickson Yip
- Patrick Lee
- Kevin Wen
- Jason Borgeest
- Mike Fan
- Jaidan Stevens
- Daniel Trist
- Jonathon Zaharias
- Alex Cornish
- Alastair Herschel
- Calvin He
- Eric Zhu-Liang
Minutes
- Justin Chen to create an Excel file to facilitate records
Leadership Assembly
- On Monday 6/7/2009
- We will show PowerPoint presented to Education Week Showcase; shall be talking about what we’ve done e.g. Charly Chen and Alexander Cox will speak about recycling (Justin Chen to mentor); Jonathan Zaharias and Alex Cornish will speak about Plastiki; Nathan Isaacson will talk about Mobile Phone Re-use; Martin Stonis and Alex Williams - Environment Song
- Could include Calvin Tam's Quiz?
GCS
- We need more people to become involved in GCS
- Currently the people involved include: Andrew Lin, Anthony Chan, Edward Lee, Vincent Pan and Marco Lee
- The work we do for enviro-docs will be included in GCS so the two agendas will be interconnected
EnviroDocs
- Jaiden Stevens, Tim Green, Daniel Trist, Nathan Isaacson, Damien Pan and Dickson Yip have currently expressed interest in working on the project; the project will be networked to other schools in the LGA next week
- If interested in working on EnviroDocs, please see Ms McCrossin; refer wiki
Recycling
- Starting a roster and you can reply or get involved with it via the wiki
- Usually occurs on a Thursday or Friday afternoon and takes about 45 min – 1 hour
Working Groups
- Currently we are planning on having a meeting on Thursday, 9th July which will last for 2 periods to sort out the working groups (Periods 3 and 4); Ms McCrossin to confirm
16/06/2009
Members Present
Complete list not available (can you help?)
- Fiona McCrossin
- Matthew Kwan
- Matthew Chong
- George Xue
Minutes
Wiki
- Each group needs to make a page about their group and everyone needs to start posting on the wiki
- The two Mat(t)hews are going to later allow other schools to become involved in the wiki – initially SENS schools.
- We need to link the wiki to the NSBHS Intranet
Envirodocs
- Information will be posted on the wiki; McCrossin to speak to assembly this Monday
Plastiki
- We would like to get some people involved in this. Google “Plastiki” to find out about this project. Jonathon Zaharias will begin to coordinate NSBHS involvement
VISY
- Thanks to Justin, Steven and Abhisht we’ve had our first successful collection
- We really need more people to help (approx. 12 people). 30min – 45min sometime after school (Monday, Thursday or Friday) is all that is required
- A roster for collection needs to be established –Yu Chen is working on this
- People who have confirmed that they are collecting on Friday: Justin, George, Yu Chen and Cadmus. If you’re interested in helping, please contact Justin Chen, Yu Chen Liu or Ms McCrossin.
Assemblies
- Monday (Week 9) assembly. Peter Yang and Nick Goh have stated that they would be talking about waste - Alex Greenbank and Daniel Chen also nominated to do this. Ms McCrossin to talk about Envirodocs.
- Monday Period 3 (Wk 11) there will be a student leadership assembly- Ms McCrossin to inform Mayor.
GCS Global Communities for Sustainability
- Andrew Lin (Year11) is in charge of GCS, which will be tied to EnviroDocs. Contact Andrew if you like more information about it or would like to get involved
Mrs. Hughes
- We are planning to discuss waste and electricity with Mrs. Hughes when we have lunch with her on Tuesday, 30th June – Meeting Room - located between Mrs Hughes and Mrs O'Brien's offices.
09/06/2009
Members Present
Complete list not available (can you help?)
- Fiona McCrossin
- George Xue
Minutes
- We need to make a roster for the paper recycling wheelie bins. We then need to make a roster for the co-mingling bins (Yuchen Liu to organise)
- We need to make a start on the enviro-docs soon - first meeting planned for the end of this term (McCrossin to set date)
- Ms McCrossin to send the website address for the Wiki tonight.
- Alex Cox to see Mr. Pillay about hyper linking the environment Wiki to the school Intranet.
- Andrew Lin and Daniel Chen are organising Global Communities for Sustainability (GCS). - will tie into the Envirodocs project
- Assembly of June 22nd, Alex Greenbank, Daniel Chen will talk about co-mingling during assembly; Nathan Isaacson to talk about mobile phones reuse; Ms McCrossin to talk about Envirodocs
- Daniel Chen needs a group for Enviro Inspiro.
- Mrs Hughes: request for celebratory lunch and talk to Committee about waste - dates to be determined (McCrossin to advise)
- Proposal to have a working day Thursday June 25 P 2 - P5 to consolidate working groups and their roles for the remainder of the year; Justin Chen, George Xue to check with Mr Ovens.
26/03/2009
Members Present
Complete list not available (can you help?)
- Fiona McCrossin
- Matthew Kwan
- Mathew Chong
- Darren Lau
- Martin Carroll
- Daniel Leung
- Jun Leem
- George Xue
- Alex Kim
Minutes
- The ‘IT Group’ is currently working on the wiki which should be up and running in approximately 2 weeks at this stage.
- Earth Hour is on Saturday 28 March at 8:30pm, remember to turn your lights off and conserve as much energy as possible; school to do this on Friday – all day
- We are currently going through with recycling with Visy regardless of the fee which is $707.50
- We should decide on where a possible NS Council $3,000 grant should go towards. Some suggestions include:
- Refitting Lights
- Fix blinds
- Taps
- Bubblers
- Water bottle filling station
- Ventilation – builder to be employed to audit state of windows
- We need to apply for funding from either DET or North Sydney Council in regards to funding a regional SEMP workshop.
- Martin Carroll, James Fan and Abhist Gupta to proof read the grant application from Ms McCrossin – to be written this weekend
- 31 July there is the Planet Ark Schools Tree Day. Darren Lau and Martin Carroll are currently in charge of that.
- Yuchen Liu is going to contact Amanda Lambert in regards to the NSW Environment Trust
- ‘Yes, We Can’ event at Sydney University, 14 April 5:45pm – 7pm. Please see Ms McCrossin if interested
- Australian Museum Eureka Prizes. Entries in by 1 May. Currently Alex Kim is the only person who’s shown interest, but please see Ms McCrossin if interested.
- Still deciding on whether the Environment Committee will participate in the ‘Education Week 2009 Showcase’ on 25 May. AV presentation is required for it. Perhaps we could refer it to the IT department?
- Currently there is no assembly showcasing the achievements of the committee – group concensed to postponing until more changes have been implemented
- James Fan is to contact Mr. Ovens about environment committee badges.
Minutes: SENS
8/11/2009
Present Schools
- North Sydney Girls High
- North Sydney Boys High
- Sydney Church of England SHORE
- Monte
- Loreto
Outcomes
1. NSG worm farms
- Too much food scraps
- Holidays? esp. 6 week holiday
- 3, going on 5 worm farms
- Collection: Buckets (rostered collection daily) - must be clearly marked
- Used: Garden, but there is too much compost
2. Compost bins
- Grass clippings
3. YOUth Peace Initiative
- Hosted by Sydney Peace Foundation
- Friday December 4th approx 12pm-1:30pm, tba
- Involves Video conference at Abbotsleigh, on issues such as climate change, climate racism (?)
- AYCC guest speaker present
4. SHORE hosting own EnviroDocs
- Video competition
- Integrate into curriculum
5. NSG Gardening
- Weeding
- Y7s incorporated during class time on last week of term
- Free Native Plants to school, 40~50 plants from Council
6. SHORE "Turn the Lights off"
- Posters around school near switches
- Classroom "timetables" (highlight last period) so teachers know when to shut lights/fans/air-con (yes… they have air con in classrooms) on last period of the day
7. Monte "Pond"
- Y9 Science: Ecology -> native wildlife
- Identification of native species, sketch
8. Ideas for Recycling
- Most schools have difficulty encouraging students to put right things in right bins
- One idea: "plastic tubes" on the side of the bin, inside: squashed cans/bottles… i.e. what can go into the bin
- Effective because its not just a sticker with pictures
9. Blue Lace Day
- Specifics TBA
- NSG SRC thinking about buying Blue Laces - to replace laces on shoes - for awareness?
- NSG/NSB joint project?
- May correlate with Walk against Warming Day supporting strong action on climate change, Sat 12 December 1pm Martin Place
10. Monte Water Bottles
- working on encouraging use of reusable water bottles
- New refill stations
- Designs for "Monte" school-specific designs
11. Other Events
- National Solar Schools Program: suspended until further notice
- EnviroDocs project: have extended invitation to present schools, need more pronounced advertising, e.g. in local papers
- Wiki: have extended invitation to present schools, need more community action to Wiki - may change name to "North Sydney Environment Groups?" "SENS Groups" or something similar
12. Next Meeting
- North Sydney Girls High School
- Week 4: Monday 22nd February (around 3:45pm) - date to be confirmed
- Students discussion first
20/5/09
Members Present
Listing only NSBHS attendees
- Fiona McCrossin
- Andrew Hadjichari
- Andrew (student)
- James (student)
Minutes
Summary only; complete information available here
- Posters up from the Poster Competition:
- North Sydney Climate Challenge – Awards Night
- Green Schools Grants 2009
- Council’s Bushcare & Native Havens programs
- North Sydney Boys High programs that SENS schools can get involved in
- Hearing from students
- Upcoming events
- Next SENS meeting: Wed 5 August, 4:30 – 5:30pm, at Neutral Bay Public
11/3/09
Members Present
Listing only NSBHS attendees
- Fiona McCrossin
- Andrew Hadjichari
- Andrew (student)
- Shraven (student)
- Justin (student)
- Vincent (student)
- James (student)
Minutes
Summary unavailable; complete information available here
Minutes: YOUth Decide
YOUth Decide Meeting
Minutes: Stephen Wu
Organising
- YOUth Decide to be held on Thursday and Friday at recess and lunch in B4.
- Need to find a teacher to cover both Thursday and Friday recess.
- Mrs McCrossin will supervise during lunch for both days.
- Need to buy raffle tickets - different coloured raffle tickets for different year groups.
- Organising paper boxes - Daniel Chen, Navid Bezhed, Kenny Ng.
- Prizes for each year group.
- around $30 prizes - McCrossin to organise.
- Warcraft?
- Solar powered mobile phone chargers.
Promoting
- Enviro Song
- Rock Band/Guitars - playing in B Quad during lunch to get people to vote.
- Organised by Mr Eastburn, Charly Chen, Alex Kim, Marvin Law.
- Promote the band with people walking around school telling people to go to B Quad.
- Facebook page/advertisement
- Intranet calender
- Today, some students will go around the school telling students about YOUth Decide.
- Posters have been put up around the school.
