by Gina Dempster | Aug 18, 2015 | At School
Outlook for Someday is a fantastic film-making competition based around sustainability for students Yr 7-13. Students can register for a free all day workshop at the Outlook for Someday website (numbers limited). They’ll learn film-making and editing techniques,...
by Gina Dempster | Feb 11, 2014 | At School
I have been working on a newsletter to showcase some of the amazing work our local schools and early childhood centres are doing as they journey towards sustainability. In this issue read about; Enviroschools reflection sessions at Queenstown Primary, Wanaka...
by Gina Dempster | Jan 12, 2014 | At School
Community Networks Wanaka always put on a fantastic school holiday programme. It’s been a while since I’ve run a session for them, so as you can imagine I was rather...
by Gina Dempster | Oct 29, 2013 | At School
One of the challenges I face in my job is supporting schools that are geographically far away from where I’m based. Thankfully the Internet is really coming to the party to help me out with this. Room 12 from Queenstown Primary introduced me to Padlets a few...
by Gina Dempster | Jan 30, 2013 | At School
Queenstown Montessori are a very committed Enviroschool, even before they joined the programme they were dong lots of work in order to create a more sustainable future for their centre and students. The were the first Bronze early childhood centre in the Queenstown...
by Gina Dempster | Oct 5, 2012 | At School
One of the things I’ve come to expect as working as an Enviroschools facilitator, is to expect the unexpected. It was most definitely the unexpected when I received an email from the National Team informing me that the new Minister for the Environment, Amy...
