Copperfield College Goes Bronze for Water Conservation

25 June 2010

Copperfield College achieves Bronze Accreditation...

Copperfield College in Sydenham has shown their water-saving mettle by achieving Bronze Accreditation of the Water – Learn it! Live it! school education program that aims to create a generation of water savers.

The college’s Sydenham campus joins a select group of schools in the west who’ve achieved Bronze Accreditation in the program, with students from the school’s environment group leading the water saving charge.

Anne Barker, Managing Director of City West Water said she was pleased to see Copperfield College achieve Bronze Accreditation and stressed the need to instil a culture of water conservation in our younger generations.

“The Water – Learn it! Live it! program has been a great success in enabling us to teach the importance of water conservation as an integral part of the school curriculum, and Copperfield College is a great example of how easily this can be achieved,” Ms Barker said.

“It’s reassuring to know that schools recognise the importance of water conservation in their curriculum, and the Water – Learn it! Live it! is a fantastic educational resource that we’ve tailored to specifically to teach future generations how precious water is.”

Bronze Accreditation is the first milestone that can be achieved through the Water – Learn it! Live it! program. It requires a school-wide commitment to water saving, the creation of units of learning that integrate water education and conservation as a topic in one year level, and attendance at an annual Water - Learn it! Live it! professional development session.

The free education program is tailored to school students from prep to year 10 and teaches the importance of conservation. Highly informative and interactive, the program teaches students where they can save water, how to influence others to save water and to treat water as a precious resource.

To find out more about how schools can get involved with the Water- Learn it! Live it! program, call Chiara Pacquola at City West Water on 9313 8337 or check out the website at www.waterlili.com.au.