Although just currently completing our Water Module now, our journey started back in late 2018 when we installed SWEP water loggers. Straight away we discovered that our school was losing an alarming amount of water overnight, when realistically all our taps and hoses should be turned off. This lead to the business manager and I surveying the school grounds for anything we thought might be causing us to lose water. Little did we know that we had many faulty taps, pipes, toilets and urinals, and over the last few years we have managed to fix and replace all our problems to a point where we are losing no water (0L/h) overnight. Furthermore, we officially looked at our Water Module Actions in 2020. Students undertook STEM units on solids, liquids and gasses, as well as focusing on the water cycle. Other grades conducted inquiries on water saving techniques and ran experiments by putting plastic tubs under taps to collect excess water. The grade 6 i sea, i care team help me conduct a whole school water audit which found previously unknown leaky/faulty taps and urinals. Our final process was to engage and educate the whole of our school on saving water. A small group of teachers formed a team to work on the last of the actions and received a PD talk from our facilitator. While students created and displayed new water saving signage in toilet and tap areas. Overall, our whole Water Module journey has been an amazing experience, through many ups and down and don’t forget a global pandemic. We believe our schools is now set up to be able to reduce our water consumptions over the next few years and continue to strive to one day be a 5 STAR school.

Sustainability Victoria Resouce Smart School Awards
By Clonard College | April 25, 2013
As a result of the work being done at Clonard College, students nominated the school to be represented at the Sustainability Victoria Resource Smart Schools awards. Over 130 schools entered […]

Biodiversity at Nunawading Christian College – 2012
By Nunawading Christian College Primary | April 26, 2013
Every Friday afternoon for the past few months, Year Prep/One and Year Two students at Nunawading Christian College, along with parent helpers, have been involved in a number of hands-on […]

Lumen Christi Churchill – Students Lead School to Save Energy
By Lumen Christi PS - Churchill | May 12, 2013
We helped with an energy audit for the school last year and from it we worked out ways we can help to reduce our energy usage. We had some ‘lights […]

RE-ENERGISING Mount Waverley Primary School
By Mount Waverley Primary School | April 26, 2013
2011 saw MWPS finally survive the last stages of the BER building works and a renewed focus on energy efficiency. We were successful in our application for the Solar Schools […]

Our Energy Audit
By Caulfield South Primary School | February 14, 2019
Undertaking the energy module was very valuable overall. It was very beneficial starting with the Planet Savers report as a place to review our positives and give us a guide […]