At Happy Valley school we have a strong environmental focus, which is reflected in our actions throughout the year.  To better reduce, recycle and reuse, we:

Over the past few years, on World Environment Day, we have involved the whole school in tree planting in the Panalatinga Environmental Reserve.  This year we planted acacias indigenous to this reserve.  We propagated over 400 acacias from seeds collected in the reserve by the Friends of Panalatinga Environmental Reserve.

This year we decided to plant lower down in the reserve along the creek line, in an area, which badly needed regeneration.  Planting was done in buddy classes.

A special thanks to members of the Friends of the Panalatinga Reserve who also came to dig holes last weekend and who spent World Environment Day assisting with the planting. These people included Veena and Phill Parker, Dianne Gordon, Kaye Dennert, David Lithgow, Neil Cook, Sharon Nash and Marie Szeitz. Because of your efforts our reserve will look better and have an understorey, which will encourage birds to the area.

The school thanks all involved in this great demonstration of our environmental values.  At an assembly on 6th June, Jacqui Brettig, who did a wonderful job of coordinating the event again this year, presented all classes with certificates of recognition.

  At the assembly we also presented the results of a waste audit conducted at our school by Sharon Stott from Onkaparinga City Council.  Sharon talked about how we could go about reducing the waste we put into our big bin twice a week.  She invited ECO Ant to come along to the assembly to help get the message across.  Students found this very entertaining and informative.
Left: At a school assembly, Eco Ant and Sharon Stott from Onkaparinga City Council talked about how to reduce, reuse and recycle our plastic,  paper and cardboard.