School education programs and resources
Pre-school
We offer the online Get Grubby program to early learning, family day care, OOSH and before and after school care centres across Blacktown.
The Get Grubby program encourages children to swap screen time for being outside, allowing them to explore and celebrate the natural world in order to protect it. The program skill sets help children to formulate positive sustainable habits and behaviours in the practical learning and living space.
The Get Grubby Program for Centres and families Includes:
- exploring the natural world
- composting
- worm farming
- being water wise
- edible gardens
- energy wise
- reduce / reuse / recycling
- other sustainability celebrations and messages.
To participate, please contact sustainable.resources@blacktown.nsw.gov.au to request the website and portal access code. From there you can choose units on a range of 10 sustainability topic with kits, teacher notes, unit Pinterest boards and achievement certificates, that inspire children’s participation across a range of indoor and outdoor activities.
Primary schools
For primary schools we offer Eaton Gorge theatre company’s food organics garden organics focused performance incursions. To express interest in this program please email sustainable.resources@blacktown.nsw.gov.au.
We also offer Keep Australia Beautiful Enviro mentors program that sends a facilitator to incursions at primary schools. They discuss topics on:
- what’s in the bin
- recycling
- waste audits
- sustainability
- composting
- schoolyard harvest
- worm farming
- saving water
- keeping waterways clean
- lunches unwrapped
- litter
- food organics & garden organics.
To express interest in this program, please email sustainable.resources@blacktown.nsw.gov.au.
High schools
High schools have access to Cleanaway’s know waste program, hosting excursions at their Eastern creek facility. To book, please email sustainable.resources@blacktown.nsw.gov.au.
You may also find the below recycling educational resources of benefit: