Active at school
There are many things you can do in your school to help keep our rivers healthy. These include:
- Organise a visit and learn more about your school’s local wetland or river
- Compost garden and canteen waste and plant native gardens in your school grounds
- Keep the playground free of litter
- Stencil stormwater drains surrounding your school
- Discover where stormwater from your schools goes and find out how to reduce nutrients flowing into it
- Hold a water festival at your school, with lots of fun activities about water, wetlands, and rivers
- Adopt your local waterway or wetland and help to monitor and look after it
- Get involved in the Swan River Trust’s Ribbons of Blue Program.
The Ribbons of Blue Program provides schools with water quality monitoring, games, demonstrations and curriculum to educate students on how to protect our precious Swan and Canning rivers.
The program runs Catchment Activity Days (CADs) which teach students in Years 5-9 about the river ecosystem and how our activities impact on it. The CADs are delivered in the Swan Canning Catchment priority areas and students from surrounding schools are invited to attend. To ensure students receive the most educational benefit possible from the day, teachers attend a half-day professional development session where curriculum materials are provided for pre and post-excursion activities.