Climate Choices Schools Awards

This award is for a person in the school community that, through:

• leading by example,
• motivating and enabling others,
• being innovative and reflective, and
• setting and achieving goals

has effected school-wide behavioural change towards improved sustainability.

Awards:

• Primary student
• Secondary student
• Primary staff member
• Secondary staff member

This award is for a team in the school community that, through

• leading by example,
• motivating and including others, and
• being collaborative and innovative

has raised awareness, shared knowledge, and promoted participation in sustainability activities. The team’s leadership has effected school-wide behavioural change.

Awards:

• Primary school student team
• Secondary school student team

This award is for an innovative project completed between July 2022 and the end of Term 3, 2023. The project may have been completed by any part of the school community. Student-led activities will have played an important part in the project. The nomination should show how the whole school community:

• contributed to the project, and
• will benefit from its completion.

This project will

• help reduce emissions,
• improve resource management, and
• improve sustainability for the school community.

Awards:

• Primary school project
• Secondary school project

This is an award for a school that has innovated to improve their energy efficiency and reduce fossil fuel emissions. Student-led activities will have played a part in energy focussed initiatives. The whole “Energy Transformer” school community is involved in their energy efficiency plan. The school’s approach considers actions across its:

• workplace and operations,
• learning and teaching, and
• whole school community engagement.

Initiatives will lead to:

• increased energy literacy,
• reduced energy use,
• reduced emissions from fossil fuels,
• improved energy resource management, and
• a plan towards a net-zero emissions school community.

This award is for a school that has significantly increased their focus on sustainability during the year. They will have made improvements to their sustainability practices in ‘leaps and bounds’. There is not a separate nomination category.  Schools are assessed for this award if they have nominated in the following award categories:

• Leadership,
• Project, or
• School of the Year.

This award is for a school where school-wide behavioural change has led to sustainability outcomes. The School of the Year demonstrates their commitment to sustainability through active leadership

• across the school, and
• holistically, across the Sustainable Schools Program focus areas.

They have identified areas of improvement to inform and implement effective changes. The school community embraces sustainability and includes it across the curriculum.