Sustainability in ECE - A real success!
The Tauranga Regional Kindergarten Association (TRK) hosted a 'Sustainability in ECE' conference in Tauranga from 28-29 July 2011. It was a wonderful event that saw five key note speakers and around 20 workshops that focused on aspects of sustainability. Here are some of the highlights that are sure to inspire you!
Highlights from the conference:
Four kindergartens from Tauranga presented at one of the workshops and shared their sustainability journey's so far. This was a fabulous workshop that demonstrated how different the enviroschools programme could look in different centres. To view the flyers that three of these kindergartens produced for the workshop please click on their names below:
Carolyn O'Connor launched a resource she produced as part of a NZEI scholarship. It focuses on how an association can take action on sustainability and highlights many wonderful learning experiences that Tauranga kindergartens are undertaking. To purchase a copy of this please contact marion.dekker@taurangakindergartens.org.nz
Dr Julie Davies from Queensland University was one of the key note speakers. She spoke about the international EC body in Sweden, OMEP, which was really interesting.
- To view a report she cited visit www.omep.org.qu.se
- To order a copy of her book please visit www.cambridge.org
For more information on this great conference please visit www.taurangakindergarten.org/Conference-2011.html The conference proceedings will be up there soon!
