The Green Schools Program is structured and delivered using a whole school approach.  This approach seeks to employ all key learning areas, all year levels, and engage the wider community in achieving more sustainable practices and values in our society. Whole school approaches include many aspects of school life, such as curriculum, culture, professional development for teachers, policies and procedures.

 

 The Green Schools Program works with school communities to ensure that environmental issues are addressed whenever possible, in both the formal curriculum, and in the day to day practice of the schools’ informal education.  There exists a mistaken assumption that if people simply learn about environmental problems they will act for their resolution, however, we believe information education is not enough. The whole school approach is used so that we may address environmental concerns and issues in classroom lessons, as we simultaneously model these concerns in the practices of educational institutions, in order to send a consistent message to our young people. 

 

Using a whole school approach in this program, schools begin a transformation - from conductors of information to active agents of change.  Values and attitudes advocated in the classroom are reflected in the day to day actions of teachers, pupils and support staff.  Thus, schools practice what they teach, values are reinforced by action and in this way values are embraced, not just taught.