Primary school education
We offer a range of primary school level (Kindergarten to Year 6) curriculum-based education programs, activities, and excursions in the Eurobodalla.
Children will explore sustainability themed topics that are designed to inspire care, wonder and connection to the world around them.
If you have a specific topic or interest you would like to cover, get in touch with us to see how we can help.
Sustainability education programs
Clyde the Little Penguin Project
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Clyde the Little Penguin Project aims to improve the habitat of the little penguin colony who make the Clyde (Bhundoo) River and Snapper Island their home.
The project also helps scientists to monitor the Little Penguin colony on Snapper Island.
Students will learn how to:
- remove marine debris
- collect data
- monitor and remove invasive weed species.
Resources
- Little Penguin fact sheet for students (1.4 MB)
- Clyde Penguin quiz for students (468.7 KB)
- Other environmental projects
- YouTube: Clyde the Little Penguin
Marine debris working group and beach clean-ups
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Students will learn:
- how to do marine debris clean-ups using the Australian Marine Debris Database (AMDI)
- why it’s so important to record the debris they collect
- how we can work together to prevent the debris from entering the marine environment.
More information
Botanic Garden botany experience
- This curriculum-based program is designed to cater for Stage 2 students (year 4).
- Students will take part in a botany and biodiversity education session at the Botanic Garden grounds.
- Students will learn through a combination of hands-on activities and guided exploration of the bushland tracks.
Batemans Bay Marine Park
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Students will learn:
- about the marine park’s zones and its benefits
- about the variety of marine species living in the local area
- how to identify, describe and evaluate interdependent relationships between living things and the environment within the marine park’s ecosystems.
Endangered ecological communities
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Students will learn:
- the importance of local vegetation communities such as dune systems, wetlands, littoral rainforests, and bangalay sand forests
- how to mitigate threats and contribute to the conservation of these communities.
Protected and endangered species
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Students will learn about:
- our native species, like the flying-fox, and how we can help to protect them in their natural habitat
- the programs that protect these native species such as responsible cat ownership.
We can:
- deliver this program as a school excursion, educational visit to your school or as a teaching resource
- organise school excursions to our flying-fox camps when flying-foxes are visiting the area.
Native plantings
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Students will learn about:
- plants native to our local area
- how plants help reduce emissions and create habitat for local fauna
- how to create more shade at their school.
Council will:
- provide plants that students can plant in their school grounds or at a nearby reserve
- align this program with National Tree Day, Native Species Day, or another program of your choice, if required.
Water audit activities
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
The water audit activities program provides hands-on experience that complements the literacy, numeracy, and science curriculum.
Students will:
- use water audit kits to learn how to save water
- identify areas at school where water is being wasted
- use the kits and apply what they have learned at home.
Water efficiency challenges
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Students will learn how:
- to evaluate the efficiency of their water usage at home in the kitchen, bathroom and laundry
- much water they can save by using more water-efficient devices.
Keep NSW Beautiful EnviroMentors® (water)
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
- Our water and waste management services sponsor annual visits by the Keep NSW Beautiful EnviroMentors®.
- The incursion-based workshops cover a range of environmental issues such as:
- keeping our waterways clean
- waste reduction
- saving water.
- The workshops are designed to encourage students to become environmental stewards in their households, spreading the message to the wider community.
Setting up a compost at school
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Students will learn:
- about compost and how it works
- what critters they’ll find inside compost that play an important role in our environment
- how to set up a compost at their school.
Introducing co-mingled recycling at your school
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Students will:
- help introduce yellow recycling bins and collection services to their school
- participate in hands-on activities designed to improve their knowledge about correct recycling practices.
Smart Textile Saver Program
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Students will learn about:
- textile waste
- the social and environmental impacts textile waste can create
- Council’s new Smart Textile Saver Program.
How to return and earn
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
Students will:
- learn how to reduce litter and encourage recycling
- help design and implement a return and earn scheme at their school.
Keep NSW Beautiful EnviroMentors® (waste)
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
- Our Water and Waste Management Services sponsor annual visits by the Keep NSW Beautiful EnviroMentors®.
- The incursion-based workshops cover a range of environmental issues such as:
- composting
- waste reduction
- recycling.
- The workshops are designed to encourage students to become environmental stewards in their households, spreading the message to the wider community.
School environment calendar
This program links to the NSW curriculum syllabuses:
All Year 4 students in the Eurobodalla participate in the creation of our annual calendar:
- Students will research a theme and develop slogans and drawings about that environmental theme.
- Twelve entries from each school are selected and these are published in the calendar for the upcoming year.
- Free copies are available for everyone at Eurobodalla's three libraries and at our customer service centre in Moruya.