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STUDENT ENVIRONMENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

The Student Environment Leadership Program allows students’ inner leadership qualities to shine and help students develop and deliver sustainability projects.

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PROGRAM DETAILS

YEAR LEVELS

Years 7-10

cost

Dependent on school region
+ program option.

Please contact us at studentprograms@ceres.org.au for pricing details.

delivery

4 x one-hour sessions

location

At your school or at CERES.

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The Student Environment Leadership Program (SELP) is a hands-on program that guides students to lead sustainable change at their school. Across four one-hour sessions, they learn about sustainability, set goals, and plan eco-friendly projects in a fun and challenging way. They gain knowledge, skills and capabilities, ready to implement their green initiatives.

PROGRAM INCLUSIONS

A CERES educator will guide students through:

  • Building knowledge in the environment in one focus area of either waste, water, energy, or biodiversity
  • Setting clear and achievable goals 
  • Research and documentation creation
  • Communicating this ideas to the wider school community

The incursion is divided into four one-hour sessions completed over the course of a single school day. The students will:

  • Recognise and define the qualities of a leader and how they create change.
  • Understand important information about the environment to inform project planning.
  • Construct a vision and goal for a project informed by group collaboration.
  • Analyse their goals to identify its opportunities and barriers. 
  • Collect information from a range of sources.
  • Assemble a timeline of tasks to inform a project plan.
  • Evaluate the project planning process to inform future decision making.

STUDENT ENVIRONMENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM incursion

A CERES Student Programs educator will guide students through leadership training, problem solving, research and completion of an energy, water, biodiversity or waste audit. 

Your incursion will include 4 x 1-hour sessions (in-person), structured as follows:

Secondary Students on an excursion at CERES learning about sustainable farming

social & environmental issues

  • Learn about current social and environmental issues and solutions (e.g. climate change, habitat loss and or pollution).
  • Explore personal and social capabilities
A facilitator walking through lush bush with a primary school group

Explore Student Voice & Agency

  • Explore student voice, agency and leadership by creating an action plan to create change at school.
  • Participate in group discussions and hands-on activities

Design & Build Sustainability Project

  • Complete an audit to find out what’s happening at your school.
  • Design and build a project to improve sustainability at school (e.g. an insect hotel).
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hear from the ceres community

Our school participated in the council funded schools environmental leadership program and both the student event and staff PL provided some fantastic directions for where we want to see improvements in our footprint and general practices, as well as looking at how we can influence the wider community to follow suit, largely under the direction of student interest. All the activities were engaging and worthwhile, and delivered by people who clearly knew their stuff! I’d like to thank CERES, Moreland Council and Resource Smart Schools for providing this great opportunity to build on our journey towards greater sustainability
John Hughes (Sustainability Coordinator)Oak Park Primary School
Bethal Primary School has recently been involved in a Staff PL and Student Incursion for our RSS Water Module. The Staff PL provided us with a great opportunity to reflect on our professional practice and collaboratively brainstorm a range of great ideas for our 2021 planning. Our facilitator Leah shared a range of valuable resources and information with us and was very engaging. All staff walked away with a new level of enthusiasm. The students involved in the incursion had a fantastic time learning about the water cycle, problems with our water supply and water usage around the world. The activities, including a Kahoot!, school water audit and recyclable bag making, were very engaging and our facilitator Tom had a fantastic rapport with the students – even via Zoom. The information presented to the students was easy for them to understand and relate to, which had a big impact on their learning and understanding.
Jacqui MicallefBethal Primary School
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