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25.01.2022 National Children's Week starts this weekend! (24th October - 1st November) This is an important national week to celebrate children's achievements, skills, talents and rights. The 2020 theme reflects Article 15 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child " Children have the right to meet together and join groups and organisations as long as it does not stop other people from enjoying their rights. In exercising their rights,... children have the responsibility to respect the rights, freedom and reputations of others." Head to the Children's Week Council of Australia for more details, including a list of celebrations taking place in each State https://www.childrensweek.org.au/. The GORCC Education team invites all young people to get inspired, get involved, and to start making a positive influence on our environment with a list of contacts and resources in the Coastal Conservation info sheet https://www.gorcc.com.au//Get-Inspired-Get-Involved-Get-In

23.01.2022 Tomorrow is World Fisheries Day. The day aims to highlight threats to our global freshwater and marine resources, and how we can become more conscious consumers. To help celebrate, visit and download the resources below: GOODFISH: Australia’s Sustainable Seafood Guide https://goodfish.org.au/ ... Yr 7 VCE: Exploring Coastal Food Webs Resource https://www.gorcc.com.au//GORCC-Enviro-Ed-Yr-7-VCE-Explori Yr 7 VCE: Blue Sea thinking: Innovation Design Resource https://www.gorcc.com.au//GORCC-Enviro-Ed-Yr-7-VCE-Blue-Se

22.01.2022 The latest GORCC Education Newsletter is now available. https://mailchi.mp/go/gorcc-education-newsletter-term4-2020 Find out about our School Camp offerings, what the team has been up to during Term 3, as well as a range of upcoming days and events schools and the wider community can get involved with throughout Term 4. Want to receive our quarterly newsletter directly to your inbox? Simply open the link below and click subscribe or email [email protected] to get added to our mailing list. Past copies of our newsletters and fact sheets can also be found at https://www.gorcc.com.au/education/education-resources/ .

22.01.2022 This CoastEd Report recognises the amazing contribution Coast Guardian students from Northern Bay College have made over the last 7 years to help enhance and protect our coast. Watch our video to learn more about what, where and why these students have been involved in the program, and how your school could get involved. https://vimeo.com/479725343

20.01.2022 Spending time with nature is great for our health and wellbeing. Mandalas represent the ‘circle of life’ in Sanskrit. Making a Mandala with natural materials is a very meaningful mindfulness activity that helps us connect with nature by reminding us of nature’s cycles and seasons. It is also a chance to use our senses to observe natures colours, patterns and shapes, to feel the rough and smooth materials, and smell the fresh, perfumed or petrichor scent of nature. Download o...ur Nature Mandalas resource and take some time to reconnect with nature. https://www.gorcc.com.au//GORCC-Enviro-Ed-Nature-Mandalas. We would love to see your mindful creations, which you can post in the comments below.

16.01.2022 To help tune in your ears for the BirdLife Australia Backyard Bird Survey Week join our Coast-Ed Reporter Hilary as she shares and identifies a coastal chorus of bushland birds. https://vimeo.com/444090787 To watch and listen to more GORCC Environmental Education videos, follow our Vimeo channel at https://vimeo.com/channels/gorccenviroed

14.01.2022 #NationalRecyclingWeek is almost at an end but it’s never too late to get involved in reducing, reusing and recycling!. This weekend, why not practice repurposing in your own home? By reusing materials or items, you’re helping look after the coast by reducing the need for more plastic and other materials to be made. This means less pollution in our air and our seas, and that’s a great thing! To get you started, download our Repurposing Plastic: Homemade Plant Pot resource... and get creating. Once you’re done, you can post a photo in the comments below to inspire others to refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose and recycle! https://www.gorcc.com.au//GORCC-Enviro-Ed-Repurposing-plas

11.01.2022 Our Coast-Ed Reporter and Coast Guardians Program Co-ordinator Hilary shares with you a view of Whites Gap in Torquay. This site is significant - the healthy environment you see is thanks to seven years' worth of rehabilitation works carried out by our Coast Guardian program students. https://vimeo.com/425771897 To find out more about the Coast Guardian program, head to our website

10.01.2022 2021 School Camp Bookings are now open! Did you know that GORCC manages caravan parks in three stunning locations on the Great Ocean Road? Located in Torquay, Anglesea and Lorne, we could be just what you are looking.... Whether attending with a primary school, secondary school, tertiary institute or community group, each park offers a range of accommodation and facility options to suit your needs. We also offer a range of education programs which we can adapt to suit your needs and every group who stays at our caravan parks has access to one free environmental education session! To find out more and make an enquiry, use the link below or email [email protected].

06.01.2022 Our GORCC Ed Coast Reporter Hilary has been taking a closer look at some of our weird and wonderful rockyshore animals. See her video below to find out more about an unusual animal which is great at low-tide hide and seek! https://vimeo.com/channels/gorccenviroed/434577612 Do you have any questions about these creatures? Are there any coastal plants or animals in the bush or on the beach that you would like to learn more about? Add your questions and ideas in the comments below.

06.01.2022 National NAIDOC week runs from 8th - 15h November, with this years’ theme "Always was, always will be". Head to the official website for a range of resources and events you can involved with at https://www.naidoc.org.au/about/naidoc-week. The GORCC Education team would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands we work and teach on. We would like to acknowledge the Wadawurrung people (Point Impossible, Torquay to East boundary Painkalac Creek, Aireys Inlet) & Eastern Maar people (West boundary Painkalac Creek, Aireys Inlet to Cumberland River, Lorne) as the traditional custodians of these lands and pay our respect to all Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples; elders, past, present and emerging.

06.01.2022 Our CoastEd Reporter Hilary shares this special dunes report from Wadawurrung country about the versatile Bower spinach, which was one of many natural resources that helped sustain the Wadawurrung people for thousands of years. https://vimeo.com/421321723/0d8262afec.

04.01.2022 Casual bird watchers and keen twitchers unite, the BirdLife Australia #AussieBirdCount Survey begins tomorrow! There are lots of ways to get involved and join people and schools across the country to celebrate and survey our feathered friends: - Use the link below to join the @BirdLifeAustralia event https://www.facebook.com/events/621737795158492/ ... - Sign up and submit sightings through the Aussie Bird Count app or head to https://aussiebirdcount.org.au/submit-a-count/ Download a range of educational resources including bird guides from https://aussiebirdcount.org.au/teachers/ - Check out our GORCC Education Watching Wildlife resource https://www.gorcc.com.au//uploads/2020/04/Wildlife-WWWWW-F

01.01.2022 Happy World Teachers Day! To all teachers out there, particularly those in Victoria, we’d like to extend an extra big thank-you for all that you do every day. 2020 has definitely seen its challenges, and your ability to adapt and respond to so many challenges moving between school-based and remote learning has not gone unnoticed. Check out this video from the Victorian Institute of Teaching, and share with your teacher friends to help let them know how much they’re appreciated.