Sustainability education for life

The Australian Curriculum places emphasis on Sustainability as a priority for study that connects and relates relevant aspects of content across learning areas and subjects.

Cross-curriculum learning is fundamental to:

• understanding the ways social, economic and environmental systems interact to support and maintain human life

• appreciating and respecting the diversity of views and values that influence sustainable development

• participating critically and acting creatively in determining more sustainable ways of living.

Through the priority of Sustainability, students develop the knowledge, skills, values and world views necessary to contribute to more sustainable patterns of living.

Education for sustainability develops the knowledge, skills, values and world views necessary for people to act in ways that contribute to more sustainable patterns of living. The establishment and ongoing development of our urban farm enables the school community to reflect on ways of interpreting and engaging with the world. 

Sustainability education is futures-oriented, focusing on protecting environments and creating a more ecologically and socially just world through informed action. Actions that support more sustainable patterns of living require consideration of environmental, social, cultural and economic systems and their interdependence; the urban farm is an excellent classroom in this regard.