Clothing: Annabel Pickles and Neisha Davidson with the clothes they gathered from the school community as a part of their “Give Back Day”.
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Moama Anglican Grammar has won two awards as a part of the Keep Australia Beautiful NSW 2021 Sustainable Communities “Tidy Towns” Awards, announced on Saturday, March 5.
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The school’s “We Can Sort It Out” program won the School’s Achievement Award in its population category, and students Annabel Pickles and Neisha Davidson were Highly Commended in the Young Legends Award category for their “Give Back Day” event.
Running nationally since 1990, these awards have evolved to encompass projects and initiatives with a focus on environmental sustainability and resource management to reflect a growing awareness of the importance of community-led environmental action.
The awards recognise the hard work undertaken by regional towns, councils, individuals and groups, encouraging the sharing of best practices and ideas to improve our vibrant rural towns.
MAG’s “We Can Sort It Out” is an initiative that sorts food waste from the general rubbish to add to the school’s compost bins, encouraging rubbish free lunch boxes and reuses the food scraps to feed the school’s on-site chickens.
Early in 2021, Mrs Zweck initiated a Compost Club and the school was thrilled to see so many students wanting to play a role.
Year 3 to Year 6 students collected food waste on a daily basis and learnt how to effectively sort the waste.
In June 2021, Year 5 students Annabel Pickles and Neisha Davidson collected 224kg of clothing from the School community for “Give Back Day”.
The items were delivered to the St Mary’s Parish Hall, complementing the Echuca Moama Community Project’s “Coat and Blanket Drive” and the St Mary’s Parish “Soup for the Soul” community lunch event.
The girls’ Give Back Day was initiated through the school’s Year 5 Religious and Values Education unit called Creation Care.
Students worked on individual projects to identify an environmental issue impacting our world and design an awareness campaign to educate others and encourage them to take action and “live the change”.
Keep Australia Beautiful NSW chief executive Val Southam acknowledged that the past year was a time of great stress for many regional communities who battled natural disasters and the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The hardships faced by many regional communities were at times devasting,” Mrs Southam said.
“Yet, time and time again, these communities showed a great depth and breadth of community spirit, cooperation, fortitude and collaboration, which are reflected in the projects entered in this year’s awards.
“Keep Australia Beautiful would like to congratulate all entrants and winners on the great work being done in the regions.”
Eco friendly: Two MAG students participating in the “We Can Sort It Out” food recycling initiative.
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