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Young eyes look to the future

By Stephen TaylorSeptember 16, 2019Updated:September 24, 2019No Comments2 Mins Read
Hands on experience: Harley and Esther from Sorrento Primary School with a Parks Forest Fire Management team member. Picture: Yanni
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Hands on experience: Harley and Esther from Sorrento Primary School with a Parks Forest Fire Management team member. Picture: Yanni

THE war on waste, the future health of our natural resources, bushfire preparedness and endangered species were topics of discussion at the Kids Teaching Kids environmental conference at Point Nepean National Park last week.

The Point Nepean event, now in its eighth year, is one of the highlights of the conference which involved 370 students from 14 Mornington Peninsula schools, Thursday 12 September.

Director and founder Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne Arron Wood said: “Our Point Nepean organisers do an amazing job putting on a program that schools look forward to every year.

“The students have been working hard on topics, including the war on waste, the future health of our natural resources, bushfire preparedness and endangered species.”

Mr Wood said KTK was the leading peer education program in Australia. It is free and available to all schools. “Students are guided to teach each other and present their knowledge of a selected sustainability issue to their peers,” he said.

The environmental conference was held at Badcoe Hall (the old quarantine station), at the end of Point Nepean Road, Portsea.

Students from Grade 4 to Year 9 came from primary schools Boneo, Brentwood Park, Crib Point, Derinya, Mornington Park, Red Hill Consolidated, Rye, Sorrento, St Brendan’s, St Joseph’s, St Macartans and Tootgarook as well as Sorrento kindergarten, Mt Eliza Secondary College and Peninsula Grammar. Representatives from Kids Teaching Kids and Park rangers also attended.

First published in the Southern Peninsula News – 17 September 2019

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