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We offer programs that help schools to develop a whole-of-school approach to learning about sustainability, and offer teachers support for their classrooms.

Council offers both excursion and incursion opportunities to support sustainability education in pre-school, primary and secondary schools in Bayside.

Waste education session - Early Learning Centres

An interactive incursion that teaches children what waste is, who makes it, where it goes and the effect on their local environment and what they can do to help.

The incursion is delivered by Council's Circular Economy Programs Officer and teaches children which materials go in each of the kerbside bins, the basic rules of sorting waste, where each type of material goes, and what the end product looks like as well as alternatives to disposal.

Target audience: This session is aimed at children between 3-4 years of age.

Duration: 1 - 1.5 hours.

Location: Your early learning centre.

Cost: Free

To find out more or book, contact Lachlan Johansen, Circular Economy Programs Officer on 9599 4798 or via email at ljohansen@bayside.vic.gov.au

Waste education sessions - Primary and Secondary Schools

Council provides free face-to-face sessions for primary and secondary schools through our education partner, Cleanaway. Their education program, kNOw Waste, includes education on the following topics:

recycling right
composting
reducing litter
plastic reduction
circular economy.

kNow Waste Primary School Brochure

kNow Waste Secondary School Brouchure

To express your school or centre's interest, complete the online form.

One of our Waste Education Officers will contact you to discuss further.

Tomorrow's Leaders for Sustainability

Is your school interested in a fully funded program to engage your students, deepen their environmental knowledge, build leadership skills and action a sustainability initiative in your school?

Council has partnered with the Eco Centre to offer this fully-funded program.

In this award-winning program, a qualified educator from the EcoCentre will work with a class of students over one term (one session per week), supporting the development of leadership skills and environmental knowledge. The program culminates in a student-directed sustainability project.

Each program is tailored to the school context, curriculum and student interests, and includes a local excursion.

Submit an expression of interest here .

School Sustainability Festival

The School Sustainability Festival is an annual event organised by the Port Phillip EcoCentre and supported by Bayside City Council, to provide local schools and their communities an opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge their environmental and student leadership achievements.

At this event, environmental leaders from participating schools present a workshop on a sustainability topic or initiative to peers from other schools through a kids teaching kids model. The day also includes an awards ceremony and afternoon of fun activities run by the EcoCentre and special guest organisations.

For more information go to the Port Phillip EcoCentre website.

Support for teachers

We offer a range of support tools for teachers including a professional education and learning network, a sustainability newsletter. For more information, visit the Principals and teachers webpage.