Learning for Sustainability
Learning for Sustainability recognises the types of teaching and learning that use connecting experiences to develop holistic and ecological perspectives, foster student enquiry, decision-making, action, and reflection, and create sustainable outcomes.
Learning for Sustainability recognises the types of teaching and learning that use connecting experiences to develop holistic and ecological perspectives, foster student enquiry, decision-making, action, and reflection, and create sustainable outcomes.
At Milford School all of our learning links to the Guiding Principals and Learning for Sustainability.
At Milford School all of our learning links to the Guiding Principals and Learning for Sustainability.
We ensure that we continue to make links and give environmental perspectives and awareness through our actions, practices, processes and across all disciplines.
We ensure that we continue to make links and give environmental perspectives and awareness through our actions, practices, processes and across all disciplines.
Some examples of these are shared below.
Some examples of these are shared below.
Garden Club
Garden Club
Milford School has had a garden club for more than a decade. Run by dedicated teachers it is a popular lunchtime activity for a range of enthusiastic children. Sowing seeds, looking after the gardens and using the produce: teaching children about the importance of home grown goodness.
Eddie the Penguin
Eddie the Penguin
Our junior Productions are regularly environmentally themed. Teaching the children about sustainability through song and dance.
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Conservation Volunteers New Zealand
Conservation Volunteers New Zealand
Year 5 had the opportunity to learn about the Long Fin Eels in a conservation day in 2019.
Tread Lightly Caravan
Tread Lightly Caravan
We try to ensure that experiences the children have at school include access to external environmental providers.
Monarch Butterfly Show
Monarch Butterfly Show
A visiting show about butterfly survival for Years 1 & 2