Tips for a Cleaner Greener School

School:
Local Council:
Enrolments:
Steps towards your Cleaner Greener School Actions: / Focus Areas:
Step 1: / Allocate a committee to drive overall actions.
Environment Club, Green Team, Waste Warriors, Litter Legends, Compost Kids, Power Rangers etc /
Litter

Waste

Water

Energy

Biodiversity
Step 2: / Complete a resource investigation & share findings.
Litter Audits, Waste Audits, Water Audit, Energy Audit, Biodiversity Audit and Other Resource Investigations
Step 3: / Educate and/or create a campaign.
Litter, Zero Waste Free Lunches, Compost, Recycling, Waste, Water, Energy etc
Step 4: / Connect to extra/co-curricular, curriculum and community programs.
Activities, organisations, action days, curriculum units, community days,
sustainable school events etc
Step 5: / Monitor procedures and review actions throughout the year.
Improvements of environmental actions to build on for next year.

Tips for a Cleaner Greener School

Submit your school’s Cleaner Greener Action Plan, concentrating on actions that the school can accomplish within the focus areas. Submit a digital copy to Keep Queensland Beautiful; by email or by mail using a usb. Please do not send ‘paper copies’ wherever possible.

This Action Plan is a template for you (or students, parents, groundskeeper…) to lead and record actions for this year. Use it in committee meetings and revisit it during the year to make changes and to add activites and information to it. Some schools might choose to enter all the information in the action boxes as the actions have already been completed or they are further along in their sustainable journey.

Keep the message and info simple and straight to the point. Restrict your words todot points rather than complete sentences.

Use the Cleaner Greener Resource Kit and Cleaner Greener Schools OnlineResources.

Provide supporting evidence: Use images, photos, graphs, tables, litter/waste audits, media clipping, newsletters, quantitative and qualitative data where ever possible. Be creative and use the technology available to you to enhance your application. Try using YouTube or similar to upload video clips of your projects.

Only include relevant current information as this is an annual accreditation the assessment panel will consider the progress of ongoing activities and any new activities over the past 12 months. However, if you already have programs, activities, campaigns, and actions etc in place that are annual projects you can include those as well.

All material submitted for assessment will not be returned, it is therefore recommended that you keep your own copies

Student, school and community involvement is key in implementing this program. Get the students involved and embedded.

If your school was accredited last year and you have received a 5 star rating, it is not necessary to submit an action plan this year (unless you want to!).If have a lower rating and your school wantsto improve your rating, then you will required to submit an updated action plan this year. Enrolment in the Cleaner Greener Schools Program lapses on the 3rd year for all star ratings if a submission is not entered. So please keep your submissions current.

The format of the Cleaner Greener Action Plan has been developed to save you time, be more relevant and to be transferrable to teachers and schools and can be used for teacher’s professional development plans as well as for any school implementation plans/annual reports or vice versa. Your school can complete all actions with all the focus areas or some of the actions with some of the focus areas to meet star criteria.

Nominate one teacher and a maximum of two students for the Brisbane Produce Market & Wrigley’s Leadership Awards. These are voluntary leadership awards recognising leading teachers and students for their cleaner greener schools commitment (this is quick and can be completed at the end of this submission).

Lastly, please fill out your feedback (found at the end of this action plan) and look over the judging criteria. good luck!

Keep Queensland Beautiful - Consent

All submissions will become the property of Keep Queensland Beautiful and will not be returned unless requested.

Schools must be willing to participate in publicity activities; and information, including photographs, contained in the entrants booklet and taken by the judge may be reproduced for promotional purposes either in print publications or on websites. schools may be asked to provide further material and/or for promotional purpose.

School Contact Details

Contact1: / Position:
Postal Address:
Postcode:
Telephone (Work): / Telephone (A/H): / Mobile:
Facsimile: / Email:
Contact2: / Position:
Telephone (Work): / Telephone (A/H): / Mobile:
Facsimile: / Email:

In case we need further information or clarification, please provide contact details for two representatives:

Cleaner Greener School – Action Plan

Please follow the 5 Steps below and complete youractions for eachspecific focus areas. Schools can enter any or all actions but to be eligible for 5 Star Accreditation as a Cleaner Greener School, you MUST involve your school in some way in the 5 steps. Some of these actions could already be in place at your school. Additional actionscan be added by copying and pasting the action template for that specific area that your school has taken on (if you think they would benefit you application).

1.Allocate a committee to drive overall actions.

Committee/
Subcommittee(s) / Action / Project Management
Allocate a group, committee or subcommittee(s) to drive overall actions
[Please describe)
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Resource Investigation / Litter / Action / Project Management
Perform a Litter Audit (conducted at least twice for data comparison, if one hasn’t been done before)
[Please describehow you shared findings)
Timeframe
Resources /
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure / Email Litter Data Collection Sheets to Cleaner Greener Schools to be recorded and updated for monitoring purposes

2.Complete a resource investigation & share findings.

Resource Investigation / Waste / Action / Project Management
Perform a Waste Audit (conducted at least twice for data comparison, if one hasn’t been done before)
[Please describe & how you shared findings)
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring
Procedure
Resource Investigation / Water / Action / Project Management
Perform a Water Audit
[Please describe & how you shared findings)
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring
Procedure
Resource Investigation / Energy / Action / Project Management
Perform an Energy Audit
[Please describe & how you shared findings)
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring
Procedure
Resource Investigation / Biodiversity / Action / Project Management
Perform a Biodiversity Audit(Please note that this action is optional for 1-4 Star Schools)
[Please describe & how you shared findings)
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring
Procedure

3. Educationand/or create a campaign.

Education / Campaign / Litter / Action / Project Management
Introduce a Litter Campaign
[Please describe how you shared this info]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Education / Campaign / Waste / Action / Project Management
Introduce a waste campaign or educational program (signage, presentations etc)
[Please describe & how you shared this info)
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Education / Campaign / Water / Action / Project Management
Introduce a water campaign or educationalprogram (signage, presentations etc)
[Please describe & how you shared this info)
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Education / Campaign / Energy / Action / Project Management
Introduce an energy campaign or educational program
[Please describe & how you shared your info)
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Education / Campaign / Biodiversity / Action / Project Management
Introduce a biodiversity educational program
[Please describe & how you shard your info)
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure

4.Connections to extra/co-curricular, curriculum and community programs.

Connections / Litter / Action / Project Management
Engage in litter cleanup activities.
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure

Connections / Litter / Action / Project Management
Litter Prevention
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Litter / Action / Project Management
[Other]
[Please describe]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Waste / Action / Project Management
Waste Management Policy or Plan
[Please describe]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Waste / Action / Project Management
Improvements to Reduce Waste
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Waste / Action / Project Management
[Other]
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Water / Action / Project Management
Improvements to conserve water
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Water / Action / Project Management
Infrastructure or practices in place
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Water / Action / Project Management
[Other]
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Energy / Action / Project Management
Improve energy efficiency
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Energy / Action / Project Management
Infrastructure or practices in place.
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Energy / Action / Project Management
[Other]
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Biodiversity / Action / Project Management
Improvements to conserve and protect biodiversity at the school
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Biodiversity / Action / Project Management
Conservation activities
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure
Connections / Biodiversity / Action / Project Management
[Other]
[Please describe & how you shared this]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure

5. Monitor procedures and evaluate actions.

(Please note that you have already provided information on how you will monitor procedures for each action throughout the above steps).

Monitor / Action / Project Management
Improvements of environmental actions to build onfor next year.
[Please describe briefly]
Timeframe
Resources
Responsibility
Monitoring Procedure

Additional comments/info:

/ Please email your completed Cleaner Greener Schools action plan, including all supporting evidence by:
Monday, 24th November 2014 to:

Or alternatively, send your submission on USB to:
Cleaner Greener Schools
PO Box 3260
SOUTH BRISBANE QLD 4101
Please scroll down to nominate student leaders and teachers, provide feedback and review the assessment (judging) criteria and further ideas for focus areas.
CLEANER GREENER SCHOOLS LEADERSHIP AWARDS
(Voluntarily nominated by the school through student, teaching or principal class)
Sponsored by Wrigley’s– Student Leadership recognition in Litter Campaign & Prevention Initiatives, Programs / Sponsored by Brisbane Produce Market:Teacher Leadership recognition inWaste Reduction Initiatives, Garden Projects, Rubbish Free Lunches, Programs

Student Leadership Award:I/We nominate: ______
For recognition in: /
Teacher Leadership Award: I/We nominate:______
For recognition in:

Feedback: Please provide any additional information that you feel will help us continue to improve Cleaner Greener Schools Accreditation Initiative.

FEEDBACK (We want to improve!)
Cleaner Greener Schools has provided our students with opportunities to further manage litter and waste to become a Cleaner Greener School. / Agree/Disagree
Cleaner Greener Schools has useful resources to assist our school (project ideas, videos, partnerships etc). / Agree/Disagree
Our school has improved our practices in managing waste and litter by working through the Cleaner Greener Schools Action Plan. / Agree/Disagree
Our school has reduced our waste and litter which has resulted in cost savings to our school. / Agree/Disagree
The Cleaner Greener Action Plan and Resource Kit have supported me with our actions. / Agree/Disagree
The Cleaner Greener Action Plan and Resource Kit have supported me in recognising areas that I can include for my own Teaching Professional Development. / Agree/Disagree
The Cleaner Greener Action Plan and Resource Kit have supported my school in documenting and recognising areas that our school can use for our overall Implementation Plan/Annual Report. / Agree/Disagree

Are there any additional resources that we could provide you with that would help you with the Cleaner Greener Schools or other programs at your school?

If an Education Officer were to visit your school what type of sessions, learning or workshops would you be interested in?

How can we improve Cleaner Greener Schools?

How can we improve Cleaner Greener Schools?
CLEANER GREENER SCHOOLS ACCREDITATION
5 STARS
Leadership / 4 STARS
Sustaining / 3 STARS
Transforming / 2 STARS
Discovering / 1 STAR
Awakening
Focus Areas
LITTER
WASTE
WATER
ENERGY
BIODIVERSITY / It's time to share knowledge and actively help others as your school community continues to improve its own processes. As a 5 Star school community, you'll maintain the whole school approach, resource reduction as well as previous star requirements, collecting data and the sharing of those findings. You'll also demonstrate significant leadership in all actions of the Cleaner Greener Action Plan in each of the focus areas –LITTER, WASTE WATER, ENERGY and BIODIVERSITY. Leadership for school communities means you've become role models for your wider community and can now show others how to start their own journey. / Sustaining the practices learnt and introduced at your school is the key to becoming a 4 Star School - along with making sure your school's actions are always being shared, monitored and reviewed. This will show how your school community (including staff, students, parents and the wider community) has developed its practices and knowledge along the way. You’ll be able to complete all actions of the Cleaner Greener Action Plan in all focus areas – LITTER, WASTE, WATER, ENERGYand BIODIVERSITY will need to be targeted, while you're still maintaining the previous star requirements along with data collection, analysing data and sharing of those findings. School communities who have completed all of this have now become stewards of their environment, habitat and community. / This stage is when your school community as a whole really starts to change the way it does things day-to-day. You'll be putting further thought into planning for the Cleaner Greener ActionPlan for your school. Two focus areas within the action plan will need to be targeted, while still maintaining the previous star requirements along with your data collection and sharing. 3 Star is a time to look at what else your school community can do to further transform your school and how you can improve on what you're doing. Revisit your data? Do you have an environmental management plan or a waste management policy or plan? Take on further actions in the Cleaner Greener Action Plan and additional focus areas. (It's also time to look to your community for partnerships and continue to build the profile of your school). / The next stage is for your school to discover and actively engage in finding out more about how to be a Cleaner Greener School. Questions arise - what's around you and who might be able to help you on your journey. Students are invited to take on leadership roles, to take on actionsand to investigate and explore issues. The whole school community will now be on board to support your school’s Cleaner Greener Action Plan and is introduced to one of the focus areas: LITTER, WASTE , WATER, ENERGY or BIODIVERSITY or alternatively a number of areas at once (this will vary from school to school). Data collection is important to start at this stage and can be examined by litter audits, lunch waste, paper waste, resource waste and/or water, energy and biodiversity audits. 2 Star is the time to start investigating litter and introduce a litter prevention campaign. / This is the beginning of the Cleaner Greener School accreditation journey for your school. Individuals and groups guide actions and begin to understand and identify issues related to LITTER, WASTE WATER, ENERGY and BIODIVERSITY .The school sees a need to become cleaner and greener and includes this as a focal point for the school and its planning. At this stage your school willengagingin a variety of general actions using the Cleaner GreenerAction Plan keeping focus areas in mind while gathering and establishing what data you want to collect to help you get on track with your action plan. You will track your progress through litter and waste audits and by investigating resources and their recycling value, and how much money you can save by reducing ’general waste’ collection costs. 1 Star is the time to bring everyone along on the journey together.
IDEAS TO GUIDE YOUR ACTIONS IN FOCUS AREAS
LITTER
Litter Campaign: Literature, directional and informative signage, education programs, advertisements, curriculum studies on litter, packaging minimisation, attitudes to litter, impacts and effects of litter on the environment, “Chew it, wrap it, bin it”, other anti-litter programs, Green Land Diary Cleanup 2014, Adopt A Spot (Keep Queensland Beautiful) or council programs
Litter Prevention: Adequate, appropriate, and well-placed bins; adequate collections and maintenance of infrastructure, regular school and/or community clean ups, directional and instructive signage on bins, clean school grounds, fencing or other devices to manage litter blow, litter audits, data collection, present findings in newsletter, assembly, signage
Student and Teacher Leadership Award voluntary nomination completed in Cleaner Greener Action Plan submission.
Partnerships and recognition with community programs, groups, other schools, businesses, associations etc.
Knowledge is provided to community, schools, groups etc through documentation, data, processes
Wrigley’s Education Resource website: educational resources, videos, lesson plans, activities, games and action ideas / WASTE
Management Plan:
School has a Waste Management Plan or Policy at some level. It could be created through the committee describing your waste management, a past School Environment Management Plan, or School Planning Reporting & Review Framework.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & Recovery:
Mulching, composting & reuse of green waste, collection and recycling (electronic waste, glass, paper, cardboard, aluminium, steel, plastic, oil and other materials), energy minimisation practices/devices, water efficient practices/devices, minimise plastic bag use; adequate, well-placed and promoted recycle bins/facilities, locations and events; refuse (avoid), reduce, reuse, recycle & dispose priorities, local council programs
Food & Packaging:
Brisbane Produce Marketvia website: online subscription to their Fresh Source magazine, register for their Kids Education Program: promotions, resources and primary school visits promoting healthy food choices and healthy lunches (zero waste), get involved with the Stephanie Alexander Garden Foundation Schools, school gardens, bottle free days, educational resources dispersed to community
Student and Teacher Leadership recognition within the community, school, businesses, groups etc, Brisbane Produce Market’s Teacher Leadership Award & Wrigley’s Student Leadership Award nomination completed within Cleaner Greener Action Plan submission.
Partnerships and recognition with community programs, groups, other schools, businesses, associations etc.
Knowledge is provided to community, schools, groups etc through documents, data, processes followed / WATER
Increased awareness in the whole school community about the importance of saving water including the use of student communications and promotion
Effective implementation of the Water component of the School Environmental Management Plan including water audits, student-led action planning and water curriculum
Minimisation or reuse of water used such as the installation of automatic shut-off taps, dual flush toilets and tanks or the use of water-efficient grounds practices such as mulching, planting locally appropriate drought-tolerant plants, efficient watering techniques, reuse water
ENERGY
Solar schools program, planning for energy / carbon reduction, education and action programs; student communications and promotion, energy audits, recognition and reward programs, energy conservation lessons, alternative energy sources
Use of relevant education and action programs such as Water: Learn it for life, AuSSi, Earth Smart Science Schools or local council programs
BIODIVERSITY
Weed eradication (WoNS), feral animal management, revegetation, wildlife protection, salinity, dune protection and reestablishment, erosion control, farming
Educational Programs such as Greening Australia, Earth Smart Science Schools, AuSSi, Landcare, Waterwatch, Bushcare, Voluntary Conservation Agreements, Land for Wildlife Commitment, Reef Guardian, International Year of Forests; school based and/or community education programs