All students participate in a weekly Sustainability program for one semester.  At Templestowe Park PS, we are committed to educating our students about the importance of being environmentally sustainable and embedding practices that will reduce our school’s impact on the environment.  We believe that children benefit highly from interacting directly with their environment and should be provided with opportunities to engage in outdoor learning to develop a sense of responsibility for their natural world.

To ensure that we provide our students with the highest standard of sustainability education, Templestowe Park Primary School has proudly constructed an Outdoor Eco Education Centre (OEEC).  The outdoor learning space consists of a number of raised garden beds for teaching and learning about food production and healthy food choices, an outdoor classroom formed around a community garden space, a chicken coop connected to a free ranging orchard area, as well as numerous worm farms and compost tumblers to reduce the amount of food waste that we are sending to landfill.

Our Sustainability program is designed to provide students with a deeper understanding of how to adopt sustainable habits into their daily lives and to support the students in becoming environmentally responsible leaders of the school.

Our Sustainability program is linked to the Victorian Curriculum and covers a range of topics including:

• gardening skills;
• seed propagation;
• composting and worm farming;
• practical application of the “Reduce Reuse and Recycle” initiative;
• water saving initiatives; and
• exploring energy sources and reducing our energy use.

Please click on the link below to keep up to date with everything our amazing school and students are doing to make Templestowe Park a sustainable school. Click on the 'Home' section on the top right hand of the website to learn about all the things our students and school community do. 

Sustainability @ TPPS

Resource Smart School

With the assistance of Eastern Alliance for Sustainable Learning (EASL), we are also working towards becoming a “ResourceSmart School”.  ResourceSmart Schools is a Victorian Government initiative that helps schools to become more sustainable.  We have completed the ‘Core’ and ‘Biodiversity’ modules and are now working on our ‘Waste’ module.