Murray Cowper MLA has nominated North Dandalup Primary School for the CSBP Environment and Sustainability Award in this year’s round of Regional Achievement and Community Awards. 

He visited the school last week to learn more about the school’s environmental endeavours, and to get a few organic farming tips from the children. 

The school won the Premier’s Education for Sustainability Award in 2005, and Mr Cowper is hoping to recognise their ongoing achievements with this latest nomination. 

“I was extremely impressed by the knowledge that the children have retained, such as biological names of native flora and fauna species, and the enthusiasm with which they talk about the huge efforts the school is making to protect the planet’s vital resources,” he said.

The school has a number of environmental programs, including a protected bushland area containing rare and endangered plant species, a recycling compound which the community also uses, worm farms, native plant nurseries and permaculture gardens.  Students work on the programs as a whole school activity every Monday afternoon. 

The school’s principal, Merrilyn Jones, says that “the degree of environmental awareness in our students is a fair measure of how basic understandings can change behaviour and develop life long held beliefs, which will create a more sustainable world.” 

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Photo : Murray MLA getting some organic farming tips from North Dandalup Primary students.