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Voiceover (Male): Coogee Public School is a NSW government primary school located in
the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Our oldest building dates back to 1876. Sustainability
issues for us were a challenge both in terms of what we could to work with the space that
we have, and work with the structures and facilities that we had. We worked really closely
with our students to improve energy usage within the school. If our lights have to be
on because our buildings are old and dark, then we need more efficient lighting.
Voiceover (Young Male): So we got a grant and we installed plenty of energy efficient
lights that use eighty per cent less energy and they lasted four times longer.
Voiceover (Male): They also then came up with a range of behavioural strategies about how
they used the energy we currently had within the school.
Voiceover (Young Male 2): My job is to do a weekly carbon audit where I go around to
all of the classrooms and making sure that their lights, fans and interactive whiteboards
are off. Voiceover (Female): My role is to make sure
that I guess that the staff and students are all being educated in sustainability. How
best we can incorporate that into our teaching and into the children feeling part of the
whole sustainable message. Voiceover (Young Female): Our canteen is a
green canteen which means that our containers and cups are compostable or recyclable.
Voiceover (Female): We couldn't do it, obviously without the support of the principal and the
strong parent body and the staff backing it all the way, and of course the children who
are our main message. Voiceover (Male): It's really been a bit of
a project in how do we turn a concrete jungle into a much more sustainable and green space.
We had no space to create gardens, we've had to construct them, so there's lots of little
things happening across the school to try and create an ethos of sustainability about
everything that we do.