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Mary Immaculate school environmental leaders receive badges from Anthony Carbines15 August 2017

Anthony Carbines MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, recently visited Mary Immaculate Parish Primary School, Ivanhoe, to present the school environment leaders with their badges. The leaders, known as the Green Rangers, are 16 students from Prep to Year 6 who are responsible for managing the school's waste, protecting and enhancing the school environment and acting as environmental stewards. The students already have lots of ideas about how to make a difference in their local environment to create a more sustainable ‘future earth’.

 

‘I’ve been watching the War on Waste documentary and the amount of plastic has shocked me! I think that the school should only bring nude food because that would reduce the amount of plastic found in the school yards by a lot’ – Joseph, Year 3.

‘If I become a Green Ranger I will make our school a more sustainable place for students’ - Estelle, Year 5.

‘I think I would make a good ranger because I want to increase the amount of platypuses in the Darebin Parklands. I also want to decrease the amount of rubbish in the school’ - Xander, Year 3.

‘I am very interested in helping the environment and taking care of our school’ – Ivy, Year 3.

Mary Immaculate Parish Primary School Ivanhoe are celebrating National Science Week with rotating workshops on Monday, a visit to CERES on Wednesday and a whole-school excursion to the ReThink Centre on Friday.

National Science Week 2017 continues until Sunday 20 August.