Hello Cloverdale Schools! Dan Luxton here, communicating with far too many exclamation marks! The Green Team have been treading water during the Primary School’s senior swimming, just quietly making 'PAPER ONLY' posters for the classroom recycling bins. Last Thursday, we put out five, almost full, 240 litre blue bins of paper suitable for recycling. Each 240 litre paper bin weighs about 50 kilograms when full. Yep, on average, the Cloverdale Primary and Ed Support Schools together produce about 50 kg of waste-paper every week - which is recycled, thus saving trees, the 'lungs' of the earth!

The EMRC did their first battery collection on TUESDAY 9th March, the next one is in June, so please, bring in your AA, AAA, AAAA, button and computer batteries. Last year, the EMRC determined that Cloverdale PS were the most improved battery collection school (for our size). The EMRC will present Cloverdale with our rewards: a 'trophy', two cubic metres of wood chips, and a $100 voucher which has contributed to the Cloverdale Primary and Ed Support school's membership of REmida. REmida collect materials from 70 businesses across Perth that can be directly repurposed for arts and education programs. Being a member allows Cloverdale's teachers to walk in, select materials they can imagine a use for, and at no additional cost, walk out with their arms full!

A champion of recycling within the Cloverdale teaching community is Ms KNUIMAN. The adjacent photo shows an accumulation of recycled materials in the library - and that's not the half of it - there are BOXES AND BOXES of caps under the library desk ready for recycling. So please, keep on collecting your ring pulls, bread-bag tags, and clean bottle caps.

Until next time

Dan Luxton, Science Teacher