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Pre-school, primary and secondary schools

Waste education officer teaching children about kerbside bins

We offer programs that help schools to develop a whole-of-school approach to learning about sustainability, and offer teachers support for their classrooms.

Council offers both excursion and incursion opportunities to support sustainability education in pre-school, primary and secondary schools in Bayside.

An interactive incursion that teaches children what waste is, who makes it, where it goes and the effect on their local environment and what they can do to help.

The incursion aims to teach children which materials go in each of the kerbside bins, the basic rules of sorting waste, where each type of material goes, and what the end product looks like as well as alternatives to disposal.

Target audience: This session is aimed at children between 3-4 years of age. 

Duration: 1 hour.

Location: Your early learning centre.

Cost: Free 

Waste education incursions are heavily booked for the remainder of 2024. Unfortunately, we have limited availability and cannot guarantee that we will have the capacity to fit in any further incursions for the remainder of the year. 

To express your school or centre's interest, complete the online form

Register your interest

One of our Waste Education Officers will contact you to discuss further.

Council provides free face-to-face sessions for primary and secondary schools through our education partner, Cleanaway. Their education program, kNOw Waste, includes education on the following topics:

  • recycling right
  • composting
  • reducing litter
  • plastic reduction
  • circular economy.

Please read the below brochures before completing the registration form. 

Waste education incursions are heavily booked for the remainder of 2024. Unfortunately, we have limited availability and cannot guarantee that we will have the capacity to fit in any further incursions for the remainder of the year. 

To express your school or centre's interest please complete the online form below. 

Register your interest

One of our Waste Education Officers will contact you to discuss further.

Is your school interested in a fully funded program to engage your students, deepen their environmental knowledge, build leadership skills and action a sustainability initiative in your school? 

Council has partnered with the Eco Centre to offer this fully-funded program.

In this award-winning program, a qualified educator from the EcoCentre will work with a class of students over one term (one session per week), supporting the development of leadership skills and environmental knowledge. The program culminates in a student-directed sustainability project.

Each program is tailored to the school context, curriculum and student interests, and includes a local excursion.  

Register your interest

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The School Sustainability Festival is an annual event organised by the Port Phillip EcoCentre and supported by Bayside City Council, to provide local schools and their communities an opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge their environmental and student leadership achievements. 

At this event, environmental leaders from participating schools present a workshop on a sustainability topic or initiative to peers from other schools through a kids teaching kids model. The day also includes an awards ceremony and afternoon of fun activities run by the EcoCentre and special guest organisations. 

For more information go to the Port Phillip EcoCentre website.

ResourceSmart Schools is a Victorian Government program that assists schools in embedding sustainability into their campus, curriculum and community, proudly supported by Bayside City Council. 

The program provides practical support to schools to reduce resource use, make cost savings, integrate sustainability into the classroom and share learnings beyond the school gate.

It’s free for Victorian schools and designed to work in school ecosystems, inspiring students of all levels to get involved. Bayside teachers are supported by CERES, who have helped hundreds of schools implement sustainability programs and make an impact.

If you're interested in making your school more sustainable, register your interest below. 

Learn more and register your interest in ResourceSmart Schools

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We offer a range of support tools for teachers including a professional education and learning network, a sustainability newsletter.  For more information, visit the Principals and teachers webpage.