2005-06 School Project Grants
In 2005-06 twelve school projects were successful with a total of $17,790 allocated to this component.
Alice Springs Region:
Bradshaw Pre-School
Region: Alice SpringsSub Region: Alice Springs
Focus: Awareness
Amount: $2,000
Project name: To create a Preschool environmental awareness garden and learning area.
Description: The parents and children will help create a garden area to use to learn about growing plants and the needs of plants. Children will be involved in all steps of creating this garden, planning, preparing, planting and nurturing and will learn about sustainability, and how we can save water in Alice Springs by creating arid lands gardens
Bradshaw Primary School
Region: Alice Springs
Sub Region: Alice Springs
Focus: Water conservation
Amount: $2,000
Project name: Bradshaw School Water Conservation Project
Description: This project will transform a number of grassed areas that require a lot of water into native, arid gardens - desert rivers, sand country, etc. to reduce water use in the school.
Irrkerlantye Learning Centre
Region: Alice Springs
Sub Region: Alice Springs
Focus: Arid bush tucker and vegetable gardening
Amount: $2,000
Project name: Indigenous bush food and sustainable arid zone garden
Description: A productive arid zone garden will be established to demonstrate horticultural processes including propagation and arid environment water management (irrigation installation and mulching).
Darwin Region
Tipperary Station School
Region: Darwin
Sub Region: Daly
Focus: Native species
Amount: $550
Project name: Going Native: Establishing Tropical Woodland Species at Tipperary Station School
Description: The school will establish plantings of tropical woodland species in the school grounds and the childrens research used to develop a library resource documenting their unique features and known uses.
Wanguri Primary School
Region: Darwin
Sub Region: Darwin
Focus: Sensory garden
Amount: $1,260
Project name: Multi-Sensory Environmental Garden
Description: A multi-sensory garden will be constructed including a riverbed with running water, mosaics and sculptures to increase students awareness and appreciation of environmental issues.
Berry Springs Primary School
Region: Darwin
Sub Region: Litchfield
Focus: Toads
Amount: $1,700
Project name: The Berry Happy Frog Sanctuary and Magical Garden
Description: Students and staff will develop a habitat suitable to support native frogs and to protect them from the impact of cane toads by building a 3.5m by 7.5m frog landscaped enclosure including a pond and waterfall.
St Francis of Assisi Primary School, Humpty Doo
Region: DarwinSub Region: Litchfield
Focus: Native species
Amount: $2,000
Project name: Calendar Garden
Description: A garden will be planted that is designed to demonstrate seasonality in the tropical savannah and the local Aboriginal calendar with flowering and fruiting native plants grouped according to seasonal displays.
Bakewell Primary School
Region: Darwin
Sub Region: Palmerston
Focus: Shade trees
Amount: $1,500
Project name: Bakewell School Shade Trees Program
Description: An 'adopt a tree' program will be established focussing on the school oval involving soil improvement, selection of suitable species and a planting and maintenance program.
Driver Primary School
Region: Darwin
Sub Region: Palmerston
Focus: Water conservation
Amount: $2,000
Project name: Driver Primary School Water Wise Planting Project
Description: Excess areas of lawn with high water use will be converted to low water use areas with mulch and plantings of native species.
Durack Primary
Region: Darwin
Sub Region: Palmerston
Focus: Toads
Amount: $140
Project name: Native Frog Pond
Description: This project will help purchase and install a toad trap in the existing frog pond enclosure.
Palmerston High School
Region: Darwin
Sub Region: Palmerston
Focus: Toads
Amount: $640
Project name: Operation Counter Cane Toad
Description: Palmerston High will run a competition for Year 9 students to design and construct cane toad traps and produce cane toad awareness and public information materials.
Katherine Region
Mataranka Primary School
Region: Katherine
Sub Region: Elsey
Focus: Awareness
Amount: $2,000
Project name: “Tall Timbers” Campsite
Description: The grant will be used to develop an area within the school boundary, adjacent to the "Tall Timbers" Forestry project as an amphitheatre for use as an outdoor classroom/meeting place for the many visitors from other remote schools that come each year for educational exchange weeks.
