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Our very clever Grade 2 students worked on an Inquiry unit with the focus on Our Future, Our Problem. Students brainstormed current problems facing our society and practical solutions to combat these.

They finished the unit of inquiry with a sustainable city, highlighting the need for public transport, green spaces and sustainable homes.

We think the future is in safe hands with these innovators.

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Recently our Grade 1 students were tasked with creating an innovative way to solve our schools waste problem. Students came up with a range of innovations including rubbish fueled PacMans that ate more rubbish to fuel themselves and a robotic 'go go gadget' style car that had extendable arms to collect rubbish as well as a fan for clearing debris from the pathways.

We discussed while these were incredible innovations the best thing we can do is to not need them in the first place because we didn't have any waste to begin with. We are working hard on Waste Free Wednesdays to limit single use plastics and increase awareness of buying in bulk.

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The grade 3s at Reservoir West primary school have been learning all about Flying foxes. They are critical for pollination and seed dispersal (which they spread through their poop!!).

We read the book 'Flick The Flying Fox' by Deborah Ladd which highlights the important work the Friends of Bats & Bushcare volunteers do to care for bats.

We were saddened to learn of the great loss of flying foxes during the January heat wave at Brimbank park.

We are thinking of ways to raise money for Friends of Bats & Bushcare to help all the orphaned pups.

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In 2025, The Learning Sanctuary kindergarten students created posters about endangered animals. See their work below.

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In 2025, Templeton Primary School visited Healesville for their inquiry unit What is special about Australia? and encouraged families to purchase conservation tote bags. More than 70 bags were sold, raising over $700 to support the Grassland Earless Dragon.

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In 2025, students engaged in group work to explore a variety of endangered species and using their STEM skills developed improvements to help support conservation efforts toward them. Read about their work below.

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In 2025, St Mary’s Primary School took action for threatened wildlife through research and fundraising, even sharing their Grassland Earless Dragon project with the wider community in their local newspaper.

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In 2025, St Joseph’s Catholic School used their creativity to adapt their favourite games to focus on threatened wildlife.

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In 2025, Stella Maris Catholic Primary School participated in the 2025 Love your Locals Day, raising awareness for the Golden Sun Moth. Read about their work below.

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In 2025, Springhurst Primary School acted for wildlife by creating an elephant stop-motion animation. See their work below.

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In 2025, Shine Bright Kindergarten committed to making ecofriendly changes around their school in 2026.

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In 2025, students explored how local birds nest in their area. They observed nests and then through using natural resources had a go at making their own. Students explored the challenges of STEM design at its most basic form and had some great success while learning about the importance of so many natural resources.

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In 2025, Resurrection Primary School engaged in various learning opportunities to explore the impacts of plastic on Port Phillip Bay and the seals that call it home. Students created amazing posters and videos to share their knowledge and had Nude lunch week (lunches with no single-use plastic). Read all about their Saving our Seals campaign below.

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In 2025 Mount Egerton Primary School engaged in a campaign called 'Exercise for Extinction' created by the school to raise money for the Brisbane National Park to help support the Phascogale. The students raised $360 that was donated to the National Park

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In 2025, Melbourne Girl’s Grammar advocated for the Swift Parrot through celebrations, creative learning, conservation campaigns, and a student‑led fundraiser—all helping raise awareness for this endangered species. Read about all of the amazing work they have done below.

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Melbourne Girl's Grammar School, Morris Hall

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In 2025, Hillsmeade Primary School took action for wildlife through a range of hands‑on projects. They explored First Nations Science by building Mia Mia shelters, celebrated World Oceans Day with ocean‑themed learning, designed games to understand human impacts on the Earth, and embraced sustainability through their Bubbles Not Balloons celebration. Read more about their projects below.

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In 2025, Year 4 students from Grey Street Primary school became Wildlife Warriors by raising awareness about Devil Facial Tumour Disease and organising a fundraiser to support Tasmanian Devil recovery.

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In 2025, Wendouree Primary School did a range of amazing Wild Week fundraiser and student‑designed recycled key‑rings (social enterprise) linked to wildlife themes—students practise design, enterprise, and community engagement. They raised over $600 for wildlife!!!

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In 2025, Warrnambool East Primary School's Girls As Leaders in STEM (GALS) group led a Pookila conservation project (artificial habitat design, 3D‑printed fundraiser, awareness campaign) and published whole‑school murals (e.g., Hooded Plover Day)—integrating leadership, STEM, and communication.

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in 2025, Melton Primary School's Year 3–4 students co‑designed Swift Parrot nest boxes and partnered with the local Men’s Shed to fabricate and install designs—applied engineering, community partnership, and biodiversity learning integrated into class projects.

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In 2025, Eltham North Primary School were part of the FE Schools Mentoring program. Working with their Mentor, their enviro club did a habitat restoration project. to attract local birds (planting, water, nest boxes) with explicit links to Safe Cat, Safe Wildlife behaviour change—students apply ecological knowledge to school grounds.

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in 2025, Daylesford Primary School years 3-4 students did an integrated sustainability, conservation and animal welfare unit. As part of the unit, every student designed animal enrichment for an Australian species.

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In 20255, Dallas Brooks students created habitat designs for endangered species. They used their coding and technology skills to bring these designs to life for the FE Schools Showcase.

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In 2025, Christ the King, Newcomb, created a campaign where they sold student-designed keyrings to raise funds for wildlife.

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In 2025, a student independently worked on a Baw Baw Frog campaign. Their post can be read below.

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In 2025, Briar Hill Primary School ran their Junior Rangers program again. They planted Indigenous plants, reduced their waste and even installed bat, possum and bird boxes.

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In 2025, Barry Becket continued their wildlife gardens project, expanding their focus from the local ringtail possum to include reptiles! They planted habitat for local lizards and made a lizard lounge.

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In 2025, Badger Creek Primary School established a student “Sanctuary Leader” role to sustain an annual FE Schools project; students initiated a school newsletter conservation column and planning for a student‑authored FE27 book fundraiser, all anchored in visits and mentoring at Healesville Sanctuary. These activities develop literacy, civics, and science capabilities.

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In 2025, Avoca Primary School worked with our Threatened Species biologists to plant Creeping Boobialla in their school. This is the food source of the Golden-rayed Blue butterfly. Not only did they provide habitat for this species, but they also educated their local community about the species. Read about their work below.

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In 2025, Aitken College's year 4 students did the STEM Enrichment program. Students created and shared enrichment designs for Little Penguins. Read about their work below.

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Today I finalised our key chain fundraising efforts with Zero Plastics and sorted out our donations.

Our amazing efforts resulted in the students selling 255 keychains, which saved around 1300 milk bottle lids from going into landfill. In total we raised just over $600 that I have now distributed out over the three organisations we chose to assist.

We donated $122 to Birdlife Australia, $100 to the Jane Goodall Memorial Fund, $200 to Zoos Victorias Fighting Extinction Program and we decided to join the adopt and animal program.
We have chosen to support the Detection Dogs Squad for the next 12 months at least and will raise more funds next year to continue funding this awesome program.

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Small steps help make big changes in 2026

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Small steps help make big changes in 2026

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To help the environment we are removing the use of plastic bags from our rubbish bins and making sure that we use eco friendly toilet paper and paper towels. All our paper towels go into the compost and we are making sure we seperate our rubbish. We aim to reduce the amount of waste from two red bins to one red bin a week.

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We had an amazing time last week at the Fighting Extinction Showcase Day. It was so great seeing all the amazing things everybody is doing and networking with other schools and organisations. We had a great response to our Zero Plastics keychains and are so pound of our students.

We are already looking forward to next year!

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We love to put updates on our butterfly garden progress in our school newsletter. This is this weeks. We also put in a weekly fact just for fun.

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We love butterflies but we also love looking for Christmas beetles! We are getting ready for the count! We have now done it for the past three years.

Sharon our office lady is so creative with our article don' t you think?

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With all the beautiful rain our native garden is growing at last! 'From little things (small tube stock ) big things grow!

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Eastern Blue Tongue Lizard, Lizard Saviours

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Eastern Blue Tongue Lizard, Lizard Saviours

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Dear Zoo Of Victoria Education, my name is Zena, and I've made this with my partner Annika. We have created a tracker for the Eastern Blue Tongue Lizard which has many special features. We are very intrigued on how to save all our animals from going extinct. Annika and I chose the Eastern Blue Tongue Lizard because we wanted to challenge ourselves on this specific animal because as you know we can't attach a tracker to a lizard without hurting it when it sheds. We are very honoured to have this opportunity to help save this majestic creature from extinction. We hope you will like our project!

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Hello this is grace and Emma from St Paul apostle south school , and we are writing to let you know about our project on making nanotags to fight the extinction of the precious species known as the orange bellied parrot.

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Today we conducted the Aussie Bird Count with our orange bird feeders. We saw birds such as the Common Myna, Australian Magpie, Spotted Dove but unfortunately we didn't spot a Swift Parrot

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The Grade 3 and Grade 4 students at Daylesford Primary School completed an integrated unit that focused on broadening our knowledge of sustainability, animal welfare and conservation. The unit incorporated problem solving, design, technology, numeracy and literacy. Every student researched, designed and created a model of an animal enrichment item and an animal enclosure for one of these four fabulous creatures: Lion, Penguin, Echidna and Dingo.

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The Year 4 students at Aitken College participated in a lunchtime STEM club and using the Zoos Victoria resources, we learnt about Little Penguin- their features, habitat and life-cycle. We then designed a prototype of an enrichment toy that could be used to stimulate and engage Little Penguins at the zoo.

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My team made a presentation about the Leadbeater's possum to educate the grade 5/6's about the species before we had the opportunity to plant them a new home at the Sanctuary. It was a great day and a fun opportunity to get out in the sun.

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As part of our program plan we were talking to the children about understanding their surrounding and one part of that was knowing our birds. The children noticed that our garden has an artificial bird nest in the shape of a hut hanging over one of a tree, but its has been empty for a while. They got curious about why the nest was empty and they started to suggest ideas about how we can make a better place for the birds to survive and keep their families. This brought us to develop a planned experience where they sat on the table to build a nest for the birds. The children collected twigs, leaves, grass and tried to glue them together to make a nest which will be more comfortable than the artificial hut shape. Everyone tried their own way to make a nest using natural resources. Some children had some failed attempts while other could make their nest by working with precession and care. It took them a whole while week to come up with some final work.

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The Green Team created bird feeders out of oranges today in preparation for the Aussie Bird Count next week with the hope of spotting a Swift Parrot.

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Melbourne Girls Grammar School - Morris Hall 

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The Grade 3 and Grade 4 students at Daylesford Primary School completed an integrated unit that focused on broadening our knowledge of sustainability, animal welfare and conservation. The unit incorporated problem solving, design, technology, numeracy and literacy. Every student researched, designed and created a model of an animal enrichment item and an animal enclosure for one of these four fabulous creatures: Lion, Penguin, Echidna and Dingo.

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Today we started our campaign to sell recycled milk bottle lid animal key chains to raise funds for fighting extinction campaigns. Each keychain recycles at least 4 lids and some as many as 7 lids. The swift parrot is a personal favourite as we designed it from scratch and had it made specifically for this campaign. It also doubles as an orange bellied parrot!

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In 2025, St Joseph's Catholic School has focused on creating educational game linked to an endangered species. The students adapted their favourite games or activities while incorporating the key information about the species they chose and the developed key messages to seek support for these wonderful animals. Four projects have been selected to showcase their designs on the Tasmanian Devil, Mountain Pigmy Possum and the Golden Rayed-Blue Butterfly.

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An example of one of our 3D printed bunker. This is called Gcode.

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The favourite pic

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This year our team decided to focus on the Pookila. They were drawn to this species as it's cute and is located in Victoria. The girls worked on three projects as the same time.

"Safe Space'". First they designed and printed multiple 3D designs that the Pookila can fit in, but black rats can't. They have both above ground and underground designs.

"Food and Habitat". Secondly they created an information leaflet to be posted out to various locations. These included sun flower seeds and a note asking for them to be spread in the area to provide both food and possibly a habitat.

Lastly they created a Kahoot and paired it with a 3D printed fidget mouse for each classroom at our school as an awareness program.

This was part of their GALS projects this year and it has been presented at a local theatre alredy.

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Luna's Legacy: Saving the Lowland Leadbeater's Possum

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Luna's Legacy: Saving the Lowland Leadbeater's Possum

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Luna's Legacy follows a Leadbeater's possum named Luna as she faces threats like habitat loss and bushfires in Victoria’s forests. The story highlights efforts by scientists and communities working to protect her species and invites readers to take part in conservation.

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Our Sanctuary Captain, Evelyn, has been a driving force behind our book creation and has written this beautiful poem to complete our book.

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The Badger Creek Grade 5/6's have finally completed the draft for our 27 Endangered Species Book. All species are featured with a story and facts. We used the Zoo Victoria's Education resources for all of our facts. To be published very soon!!!!

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HeHo the helmeted honeyeater needs your help to find his special helmet, which gives him and his friends protection from habitat loss and extinction, of which this little Victorian bird has been battling with for a while. Can you help HeHo find his helmet?

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The Conservation Conversation: let's talk about the Golden-Rayed Blue Butterfly

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The Conservation Conversation: let's talk about the Golden-Rayed Blue Butterfly

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Learn about the endangered golden-rayed blue butterfly and how we can help save their habitat

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In Ella’s Friendship Book & Karl the Bat, Ella introduces you to her newest and most unusual friend - Karl, a Southern Bent-wing Bat. With curiosity, she shares what she learns from her mom, a conservationist at Zoos Victoria, who works to protect Karl and his family.

Through Ella’s eyes, you’ll uncover the secret life of these fascinating bats, from how they hunt moths in the night sky to how they huddle together to raise their tiny pups. Along the way, you’ll learn why Karl’s species is critically endangered and how even small changes humans make can help him survive.

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The Last Leap: The Southern Corroboree Frogs Fight for Survival

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The Last Leap: The Southern Corroboree Frogs Fight for Survival

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Meet Captain Corroboree, a bold little frog with a big story to tell. Through their eyes, discover the struggles of the Southern Corroboree Frog, from sneaky diseases to a changing climate, and the heroes working to bring hope for their species' survival.

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The tale of the Southern Corroboree Frog

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The Robbery of The Corroboree: A Story About The Southern Corroboree Frog

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The Robbery of The Corroboree: A Story About The Southern Corroboree Frog

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Learn all about the Southern Corroboree Frog! Their troubles, triumphs and what Zoos Victoria is doing to help them.

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In 2025, our group has created an innovative idea for observing the critically endangered species, the Plains Wanderer, we came up with the idea for capturing these type of bird species and creating a safe and sustainable habitat ensuring our birds stay protected from any harm. Find out more by clicking on our presentation of the Plains Wanderer.

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In our S.T.E.M group (leaders for leadbeater's)we are raising awareness for leadbeater possums by making a device that tracks all the things leadbeater possums do, including location, heartbeat, and much more information that can potentially help conservationists by giving them much more information to help fight extinction and help more animals thrive in their natural habitats.

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Our amazing , creative idea is to help lessen the extinction of Plain Wanderers by making a Solar Power Ankle Brace. We also came up with an app to track the location and wellbeing called Wander-Track.

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Check out this Presentation designed by Olivia Kariuki.

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our Stem Group has decided to lend our voices to the iconic Australian symbol short beaked echidnas to help save them in the wild.

our solution to save them was to create a canva presentation and Google site to raise awareness about the endangered short beaked echidnas

sincerely our team hope,Tia,Lydia,Xavier,leo

visit our site and presentation to learn more about short beaked echidnas.

https://sites.google.com/spsendeavourhills.catholic.edu.au/encyclachidna/home

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGrVNjjvOA/-Ezzfnq7IwTSsf0jv8dqsg/view?utm_content=DAGrVNjjvOA&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=haf7618815b

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Our group, T.E.S.T., made up of Seha, Teneeseha, Eshana, and Thisen, came together because we were deeply concerned about the Leadbeater's Possums, which are critically endangered. We wanted to make a real difference, so we started researching ways to help these possums survive and thrive. We realized that they needed better protection and support, which led us to come up with the idea of creating a smart home for them. This would not only help the possums but also allow scientists to study them in a safe and controlled environment.

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Our Grade 1 students have been learning about Mia Mia shelters. Mia Mia's are temporary shelters used by our First Nations people to take shelter when out hunting or traveling on Country. Our Grade 1 students used natural resources like bark, leaves, rocks and twigs to create small structures that could double as great safe spaces for animals to hide. We discussed native animals in our area and how those animals may also seek shelter in our school yard. Animals like the Pookila and Bandicoot were front runners to use these shelters while other students suggested snakes and lizards might enjoy a break from noisy students in these shelters.

We discussed only using the natural resources that were available on the ground and that First Nations Peoples showed respect and sustainability for Country by only taking what was needed.

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We will save the Leadbeater's possum!!!

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St Paul the Apostle South Primary School

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This is the website, made by Zara and Emmanuel, made to spread awareness about the Baw Baw Frog.

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This is our entry for the Fighting Extinction Schools showcase 2025.

‘’I’d like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the land on which we meet today.

I would also like to pay my respects to Elders past and present.’’

For our term 2, 2025 S.T.E.M project we decided to raise awareness for the Baw Baw frog and how it is critically endangered.

Since July 4, 2019 the Baw Baw frog has stayed critically endangered so we decided to raise even more awareness to the Baw Baw frog with a new idea to help them.

We made a prototype of a wall that will sit on the entry point of the water. The Baw Baw frogs will live in stopping sticks,rocks and other large objects to enter that habitat that may cause diseases or other injuries to the Baw Baw frog.

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Year 4 Students for their Home Learning created a brochure/ flyer to help encourage people to Wipe for Wildlife by buying recycled toilet paper to help animals such as the Swift Parrot from extinction. The students did a wonderful job designing eye catching and informative brochures. Clever slogans such as 'You can be a real ROLL model' or' A swift wipe will prevent a swift wipe out'. We look forward to sharing these at the Zoo Showcase

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Melbourne Girls Grammar School - Morris Hall

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The Year 4 Students read the picture storybook Swifty the Super Fast Parrot and came up with a list of questions they could ask a Swift Parrot in an interview.

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Melbourne Girls Grammar School - Morris Hall 

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Our Prep to Year 4 students have been participating in a Wipe for Wildlife design competition creating their own recycled toilet paper roll. We have had so many wonderful entries it has been so difficult to find a winner.

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Melbourne Girls Grammar School - Morris Hall 

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Our Grade 6 Regeneration Leadership Team took part in the 2025 Love your Locals Day. An incredible day where we showcased our learning about the Endangered Golden Sun Moth

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In 2025, students worked on incorporating the use of technology to fight extinction by designing and constructing simulated habitats aimed at supporting endangered species. Students integrated coding and tools such as light sensors, temperature sensors, and automated doors to create responsive, intelligent environments.

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Baw Baw Frog - Lets work as a team to make its survival a success!

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Baw Baw Frog - Lets work as a team to make it non extinct!

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Some examples of the great Nude Lunches students in grades prep, ones and twos brought to school! So proud of them! 🦭

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We collected data analysing how much single-use plastic we could find in our lunchboxes. These are our results.

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Our final total is in for Wild Week and we are so proud ourselves for raising over double our original target! The week was not just about raising money for us though, it was also about raising awareness with our students and our wider school community about the plight of critically endangered animals. We are going to use this as a stepping stone and continue on with activities around this theme.

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Wild Week Walk!

More wandering animals!

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Wild Week!

The grade six students partnered up with foundation students to make animal masks which they wore as they walked the nature trail today!

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Design a hoodie!

Our new display in our school office which is proudly displaying our grade six students designs!

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Our final day of celebrating Wild Week has kicked off and its dress up day! Students have been encouraged to wear something that celebrates animals and the joy they bring us. This might be an animal t-shirt, animal ears, a fun hat or go all out and paint your face!

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Our staffroom table this week as we raise awareness and funds for Wild Week!

Feel free to donate at -

https://wild-week.raiselysite.com/stephen-mc-neight

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Just some of the entries into our platypus themed colouring competition!

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As a part of Wild Week the grade six students had to design a hoodie that they would sell to raise money for endangered animals. These are only a snippet of the amazing creations that have been designed.

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As part of our Wild Week celebrations, we are excited to release the new animal designs we have been creating with Zero Plastics Australia. These animals represent the Orange Bellied and Swift Parrots, as well as numerous endangered frog species. We will also use some of Zero Plastics other animal designs, including the turtle. We are still playing with some colour combinations and working out our marketing campaigns for Term 4 when we will be selling them to raise awareness and funds for conservation campaigns.

A really exciting project that is coming together!

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Our students created a poster to educate grade preps, ones and twos about the importance of having Nude Lunches.

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Our students did research on marine food chains. They found different food chains that included seals in them and created a food chain using Scratch.

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As part of our learning, our students created the life cycle of a fur seal, writing information about the most important milestone they reach in each phase of their life.

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Resurrection Primary School, Kings Park 

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Saving our Seals - Port Phillip Bay needs our help.

Grade 3s and 4s this term are learning about the impact of plastic in our bay. Port Phillip bay is home for 16000 fur seals, and the Melbourne Zoo Marine Response Unit attends around 472 cases involving harmed seals every year. Our students took action and created a campaign to raise awareness and educate our younger students, as they are the future of our country. They did research on important facts about seals, such as their life cycle and how seals participate in a food chain/web. They also watched videos about how seals get easily tangled in fish nets and plastic that is in the ocean. Then, they did research and collected data on how much single-use plastic they could find in their lunchboxes. After that, they created posters and recorded videos to show other students the importance of their campaign and in the last weeks of term, they had a Nude Lunch week, where they encouraged the grade Preps, ones and twos to bring Nude Lunches (lunches with no single-use plastic) to school, for a week. In exchange, the younger students received a free sticker for their lunchboxes.

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This year Barry Beckett we have continued our gardens for wildlife project. Our Ring tail possums are doing well in their hanging basket dreys we made them and have kept warm all winter snuggled up inside. We regularly monitor them with the children and are hopeful there may be some baby ring tails soon. We received our plants from Merri bek council and have begun creating habitat areas in various spots around our yard. We have planted some native grasses in our rocky area to create a lizard lounge. We would love any advice on what would be good to plant for lizards such as blue tongues. Also be great to know what not to plant. We are working with the council to do native planting at our Bush kinder site along the Merri creek and have more creek clean-ups with Merri creek management committee planned soon. We have also found out that right next to our bush kinder site is home to the Tussock Skink https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/37747-Pseudemoia-pagenstecheri It appears to be listed as endangered and this is one of the few sites around the area that it is living. we would love to work this into our project some how and maybe raise some awareness and fund for our new skink friend. Does anyone know any more about this lizard? Also we are planning a nature/wildlife themed art show for later in the year as a fundraiser for some our our projects.

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Here are some of the entries from our junior students for our Wild Week Colouring Competition. We focused on the platypus as August is Platypus Awareness Month.

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Today we kicked of our week of walking every day for wildlife. The whole school came together to walk around our Nature Trail network and see what animals we could find. We've already raised $80 towards our $200 target!

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We have chosen Yarn'n toilet paper to promote as part of our Wipe for Wildlife. We have been learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture through sustainability, dreamtime stories and exploring language. 50% of Profits go to First Nations Education.

All our Year 4 students took home a roll of Yarn'n toilet paper and other students won rolls as a prize from our recycled toilet paper quiz.

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Melbourne Girls Grammar School- Morris Hall

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The Green Team hosted a QUIZ at assembly to encourage the switch to recycled toilet paper. Each student who answered the quiz correctly got a roll of Yarn'n recycled toilet paper. The Green Team also introduced the details for our design/ colour recycled toilet paper competition.

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Melbourne Girls Grammar School - Morris Hall 

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Our Year 4 students are leading and designing a Wipe For Wildlife Campaign to encourage our community to use recycled toilet paper to help save the Swift Parrot from extinction. We talked about advertising tips and students will make a flyer/ brochure to spread awareness and to encourage all families to use recycled toilet paper.

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Melbourne Girls Grammar School - Morris Hall

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Taking Action - Care for Our Common Home

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Taking Action - Care for Our Common Home

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During Term 2 in RE, year 5/6 students reflected on how we experience God through the beauty of nature and our responsibility to care for our planet, our common home. To put their reflections into action, they created Fighting Extinction Campaigns for endangered animals. As part of this project, each student designed a keyring featuring a slogan to help their chosen animal. The keyrings were created using our laser cutter machine.

We sold our keyrings to our school community 50% of all funds raised will be donated to Zoos Victoria to support their conservation efforts for these animals in need, and the other 50% will go to materials and resources purchased to make the keyrings. We have already raised $500 with more orders still coming in!

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This year at Briar Hill the Junior Rangers have worked on multiple projects to promote conservation and the environment.

We revegetated a part of our school grounds with local indigenous plants and have been caring and monitoring them.

We also conducted a waste audit and looked at improving how we manage our waste, including making sure we put the correct waste in the correct bin. The Junior Rangers presented our findings at assembly to share our findings and remind the students and staff which waste goes into which bin.

Our next project is to install bat, bird and possum boxes in our school grounds and local community that were made at the school.

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Wendouree Primary is celebrating Wild Week !

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Wendouree Primary is celebrating Wild Week !

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Next week we are celebrating Wild Week across the whole school and have a target of $200 to try and raise.

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Up Date: We planted out our lovely plants a day after we received them but we noticed that a few were dying due to the large rainfall and frosts. So we decided to dig them up and will re plant when the ground dries out and the frost is over. Meanwhile we are getting our area ready with active weeding! We have also ordered more natives and boobialla plants.

To keep everyone interested in the mean time we a posting a fact about the Golden rayed butterfly and what people can do to attract insects to their garden in our newsletters.

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2025 Eltham North Primary School Enviro Club

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2025 Eltham North Primary School Enviro Club

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We are getting ready to clean up the existing garden. Then, it'll be time to plant!