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Developing a School Environmental Management Plan (SEMP)

Studentholdingchook This workshop aims to show how the development of a SEMP can be a simple process.

This workshop will:

- Outline the processes involved in developing a SEMP

- Showcase school SEMPS and hear from others who have completed one

- Commence the development of your SEMP

When: Date to be advised

Where: Centre for Teaching and Learning, Freemantle Drive, Stirling

Time: 4pm - 6pm

RSVP: Jenny Dibley on 6207 6430 or

jenny.dibley@act.gov.au

Programs for ACT teachers!

A sustainable schools toolkit has been distributed to all ACT schools to ensure teachers had access to resources to educate for sustainability.

The toolkit contains 2 parts:

1. Educating for Sustainability through the ACT Curriculum.

Programs for P-10 on water, energy, biodiversity, waste and climate change.

2. Your Operational Guide to becoming a sustainable school

Step by step guides to establishing a sustainable school in water, energy, biodiversity, waste and curriculum

Sustainable Schools officers worked with many local organisations in 2007 to provide schools with this curriculum resource aligned to the new ACT Curriculum Framework from P -10.

The following programs will be made available to schools in 2010.

ACT Aboriginal Curriculum program
ACT Wetlands Curriculum program (Later Childhood 3-5 and Early Adolescence 6-8)

The toolkit contains ten week programs on water, energy, biodiversity, waste and climate change containing local information and supporting resources from our local experts that is relevant to our ACT schools!

Many teachers develop fantastic units of work on areas such as water, energy, waste, biodviersity and climate change. If you have developed a unit of work focused on any area of sustainability and are happy to share it with us, please email it to vanessal.whelan@act.gov.au and we will place it here on this website for all teachers to enjoy and use.