Mother Teresa Catholic Primary provides students with the opportunity to engage in a range specialist classes each week. Each learning space will engage in Language learning (Japanese), Physical Education, Visual Arts, Sustainability and Digital Technologies.
Japanese
Physical Education
Visual Arts
Digital Technology
Sustainability
There is a nobility in the duty to care for creation through little daily actions, and it is wonderful how education can bring about real changes in lifestyle. (Laudato si’, Pope Francis no.211)
Education in environmental responsibility can encourage ways of acting which directly and significantly affect the world around us, such as avoiding the use of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse, cooking only what can reasonably be consumed, showing care for other living beings, using public transport or car-pooling, planting trees, turning off unnecessary lights, or any number of other practices. (Laudato si’, Pope Francis no.211)
Mother Teresa Primary School is a package free environment. Through engagement in an inquiry focusing on waste in 2009 our learners decided that as an action to reduce paper and plastic that they should not bring packing to school. This initiative has resulted in a package free environment and the reduction of our school’s waste for landfill.
SAKG Kitchen/Garden
Students love kitchen and garden classes because they’re fun. Pleasurable food education is about children experiencing the joy of digging in the garden, picking fresh veggies, smelling and tasting the food they prepare, and sharing the experience with their classmates and helpers.
Our Kitchen Garden provides time and opportunity for learners Foundation – Year 6 to engage in gardening and cooking. All learners engage in planting, mulching and caring for our garden. Seasonal vegetables and herbs are harvested providing fresh food to our kitchen.
Organic waste from the kitchen and our brain food scraps (organic fruit and vegetable waste) are used to feed the worms in our worm farm. Fertilizer harvested from our worm farms is used on the vegetable gardens and also bottled for sale. Profits from our worm tea sales are used to purchase vouchers for the needy in the wider community.
https://www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/content/pleasurable-food-education
