Join the online community

By registering on this site, you will automatically become a member of the network of schools and their partners across NSW who have taken up the challenge of becoming a Sustainable School.

By joining this network you can:

• use the on-line SEMP Builder to create a School Environmental Management Plan 
• learn about what other NSW schools are doing and share their knowledge, skills, successes and stories
• contribute your own experiences, to help others along the same path 
• fulfill the requirements of the DET Environmental Education Policy for Schools
• participate in the Sustainable Schools recognition process and be recognised at a Sustainable Schools Celebration.

Joining the Sustainable Schools on-line community allows you to plan your school's sustainability education programs through your SEMP and share your achievements.

Registration as a NSW School

Registration for all others This includes government departments, councils and community groups

"This was perhaps the most worthwhile process I have had the pleasure to be a part of in my career. Congratulations!!!”.

"I cannot emphasise enough how beneficial this has been to the school”.

“Having students from Sustainable Schools Program schools participate in local and regional events as ambassadors of their schools and returning to schools to implement action plans”.

The Sustainable Schools Program was useful in "providing a thematic framework for thinking about , prioritising and organising a range of environmental activities that have,  in the past, been undertaken by schools in a largely ad hoc and uncoordinated manner".

“the structure and support provided through the SSP gave schools direction. Some would still have done something environmental but in a more ad hoc way. “

79% of schools listed as a reason to participate as “ providing a holistic approach to our environmental management and sustainability program and its integration into teaching and learning.