Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre

The Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre provides support to schools in the provision of environmental education programs and field study activities for students. The Centre also provides training and development opportunities to teaching staff in environmental education, Aboriginal education and in field study activities to support a range of school curricula. Centre staff are available to assist schools in developing environmental education programs and activities. The Centre is located within Botany Bay National Park which has opportunities for marine and coastal studies, an extensive wetland area of international significance, Towra Point, and has the site of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous Australians on the east coast of Australia. Given this unique suite of opportunities, the programs the Centre offers are unusual in their scope. The Centre provides programs to support environmental education across the curricula from K to 12 with the highest usage being programs for Human Society and its Environment (HSIE) Stages one, two and six.

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Demountables

Maintenance

To ensure the safety, reliability and longevity of our schools, every school across NSW receives maintenance. The Department undertakes preventative and routine maintenance every year, and repairs as needed. The Department also reviews the planned maintenance program for each school every year and reviews those items that are predicted to require work to help prolong the life of the school buildings and facilities.

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Demountables

Demountables have been part of the NSW education system for many decades and will continue to be used across the state. Demountable classrooms are modern, air-conditioned rooms that provide students and teaching staff with excellent quality facilities. The learning spaces have the same range of technology that is available in permanent spaces. We review school accommodation needs each year, looking at changing enrolment patterns and other factors to prepare for the upcoming school year. This helps to identify schools that need new demountables and schools where they can removed. Most demountable movement takes place between October and February and we report our annual demountable statistics each April. Additional demountable installations can occur outside this window to support capital works and maintenance projects in schools or emergency responses to natural disasters.

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We recognise the Ongoing Custodians of the lands and waterways where we work and live. We pay respect to Elders past and present as ongoing teachers of knowledge, songlines and stories. We strive to ensure every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learner in NSW achieves their potential through education.

Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre

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