04 November 2026
Greenwood College students are being encouraged to become sustainable leaders thanks to student-run initiatives such as Green Week.
Green Week encouraged students to think about their environmental footprint.
Running this year for the first time, Green Week encouraged students to think about their environmental footprint and take active steps towards a greener school and life.
Students in the school’s Sustainability Club took the lead, organising the event for the entire school, with the help of staff members.
Students and staff took part in a battery competition, to see who could collect and recycle the most batteries, the green door competition, to decorate their class doors, an Amazing Race, with sustainability-themed questions, and book swaps.
A spokesperson for the school said the week-long event was a great success.
“As a school, we prevented 61.2 kg worth of batteries from ending up in landfill in one week,” they said.
“This included power tool batteries, phone batteries, e-scooter batteries and headphones.
“Over 200 books were collected [during the book swap].
“In the future, should we accumulate too many, a donation will be made.”
The green door competition included meaningful messages of environmental support and encouraged students to be the change.
The Amazing Race involved 20 sustainability-themed multiple-choice questions placed throughout the school. The questions incorporated content from various learning areas, including HASS, science and design and technology.
During recess, 10 student teams raced to answer the questions, with the winning team answering 16 of the 20 correctly.
The sustainability initiative at Greenwood College was started by Jodie de Jersey, head of the technologies learning area, before becoming a whole-school, student-led movement with the help of sustainability captains.
Students recently helped establish a vegetable patch in their new community garden, with design and technology teacher Antonino D’Agostino helping students each week.
The garden has created STEM learning opportunities where students apply classroom knowledge in real-world contexts through soil testing in science, data gathering in mathematics and digital technologies, and infrastructure and signage design in design and technologies and art. They also use the produce in home economics.
School staff and students continue to focus on building a sustainable future through various projects, such as Containers for Change and paper recycling bins in the classroom.