Bushcare School League

The Bushcare School League is a great program that aims to provide students with educational environmental experiences by guiding them through the process of restoring degraded areas.

Led by experienced horticulturalists (and supervised by Miss Wheatley) this program will run during Friday Interest Group time between 12:20pm and 1:10 pm each week beginning in Week 9 term 3 2006. By participating in this program on an ongoing basis we aim not only to get our Green Zone Garden up and running but also to learn about biodiversity, sustainability and to learn different techniques to improve other areas within our school grounds.

I would like to thank Bankstown Council for coordinating this program and for providing the materials we will need. If you have some free time on a Friday and would like to help with this program, or if you have any gardening materials you would like to donate, please contact Miss Wheatley.

The staff and students at GHPS are looking forward to reporting to you the progress we make through our participation in this program. Watch this space!

Miss Lauren Wheatley
Garden Coordinator

Green-Zone Garden

In an effort to become a more environmentally active school (in line with recommendations cited in the DET Environmental Education Policy For Schools, 2001), Georges Hall Public School is committed to establishing what we will refer to as our ‘Green Zone Garden’ (GZG).

In order to make use of this excellent facility, teachers, students and members of our school community are looking towards developing an area that incorporates native plants (to attract native wildlife), vegetables/herbs, animals (a frog pond), a greenhouse (for growing and nurturing plants in), a compost bin and a water tank.

It is our goal to ensure that the school’s students take as much responsibility for the garden as possible and that they be involved in all decisions and actions from the planning stage, to implementation and maintenance. We believe that it is through student interest and sense of ‘ownership’ of the GZG that this project will achieve long term success.

Bookmark this site to keep track of our progress!

Miss Lauren Wheatley
Garden Coordinator

Click here for a student report.

Click here for more information about our native flora and fauna.

I was very excited to meet the mayor of Bankstown Tania Mihailuk when she came to our school with a plant donation for our gardening club.  I was really happy when I was chosen to be in a picture with the mayor.  She was really nice.

By Nadia, 4W