Sustainability and Caring for the Environment
Sustainable Development has been defined as: “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
Waiheke Primary School is committed to integrating environmental, social and economic factors in our decision-making processes and business strategies. To this end, we are committed to:
- effectively communicating with our students, their parents and the school community and request that they join us in our environmental programmes,
- achieving a lessened impact on the environment by efficiency, re-use, recycling, and conservation of natural resources,
- enhancing the school curriculum to include environmental, conservation and social issues within the core curriculum,
- evaluating our environmental performance to ensure continual improvement through measurement, inspections and audits,
- working in partnership with others inside and outside the school to promote the practices of sustainability in schools.
The following core values will guide the school in its journey towards sustainability:
- Support social equity, participation and respect for cultural diversity
- Belief that the economy is closely linked to environmental and social concerns.
- Recognition of our environmental responsibility to preserve natural resources, prevent pollution and continually improve environmental management.
“We have not inherited the earth from our parents, we have borrowed it from our children.”
World Conservation Strategy 1980
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