“Switching Off for Frogs”

Over the next few months Point Cook College students will be participating in an awareness campaign on frogs. This will involve the Green Gang Teams; Waste, Energy and Biodiversity undertaking various activities around the school and Year levels celebrating frogs in various ways. We will also be having some whole school days such as “Layer up Days” where we will wear “extra clothes to school” and reduce heating across the school for the day to help save Energy and help the plight of frogs which are greatly affected by climate change and pollution.

Why frogs?

At Point Cook we are lucky to have wetland in which many students have contributed to the developing of the habitat through plantings and care.

We are also lucky to have “Spotted Marsh Frogs” especially in spring.

The main threats to frogs are; climate change, habitat destruction, pollution and a deadly skin disease caused by a fungus.

Point Cook Energy ( Electricity) Reduction for March

Congratulations to the Point Cook College School Community for getting our GHG emissions down by 3% in March. Keep up the great work.

GHG are Green House Gas emissions and Point Cook are aiming to reduce ours by Kilograms per person per year by 5% overall. We have a special formula to calculate using the Electricity Bill for each month and compare it against 2011's Energy data. The formula allows for school's growth.

Waterways Heroes  DVD- A Point Cook College Sustainability Action Project

Congratulations Jerry, Darcy ,Sarah, Jasper Aaron and Erin who created our Waterways Heroes DVD which was produced and released at the end of December. This was a Sustainability partnership project with Melbourne Water – Healthy Waterways program. Homerooms are able to use this DVD for student learning on waste and its effects on our Waterways. 

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