JEM - Sustainability and the Environment

Joint Environmental Mission Program (JEM)

Our JEM program educates our school community to  understand environmental issues and to implement environmentally sustainable practices. Through our JEM program, students have the opportunity to participate in exchanges with our sister schools in the USA (Pennsylvania and Hawaii), and St Petersburg (Russia). We also work with other students and teachers from our sister schools every four years at the Earth Summit in Pennsylvania. A small group of our students  visited our fellow JEM school, Kamehameha in Hawaii. We  participated in learning experiences, such as taro farming, attending school lessons and visiting Lolani Palace to experience the culture of Hawaii and contemporary Honolulu.

Our main objective within the JEM program is work through the ResourceSmart Schools Program ( an initiative from the Victorian Government to help schools to implement more sustainable practices).

The ResourceSmart program is made up of 5 modules, each has a number of tasks that must be completed to achieve the module star . So far we have achieved two full modules and half of the third module.

The  modules are built around the following areas:

• Waste 

• Biodiversity

• Water 

• Energy

The JEM team are constantly looking for ways to improve and are open to community feedback and suggestions. If you have any ideas about how we could improve our sustainability practices please contact the school.

 TERM TWO CHANGES TO OUR WASTE MANAGEMENT

Please read the attached information regarding the changes that we will be making from term two onwards. We thank you for your cooperation.