Lets get waste wise – Recycling Rules Incursion

Incursion Overview

It’s Cuddly Koala’s birthday and you and your favourite soft toy are invited to the beach for a picnic to celebrate! Through imaginative play, children will discover how much waste we make sharing a meal and what happens when we litter. They will learn how to correctly sort waste and make waste-wise choices. It’s the perfect program to introduce four-year-olds to the basics of the Circular Economy. 

Program Activities

Teddy Bears Picnic: Children share a special birthday picnic with their favourite soft toy and learn how much waste is created from a meal. A visit from Toby the Turtle will show children how our rubbish enters the environment and steps we can take to prevent litter.

Sorting the Waste: Students will be shown how to correctly sort waste into different categories including landfill, recycling, organics and reusable items. 

Waste Wise Picnic: Making waste-wise choices is the ideal way to reduce our waste problem. Children will uncover how little waste is created when we pick items for our picnic that can be reused again and again. 

Duration: 60 Minutes. Can be customised based on the needs of your learners.

Notes and Inclusions

Restrictions: Maximum of 25 children per Gould League educator. This program is only suited to 4 year old kinder students.

Equipment: All children participating in this program are to bring a Teddy or soft toy from home or from the Centre to share this experience!

Curriculum Connections: Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework: Outcome 2
National Quality Standards: Standard 3.3

Expected Costs: Unless this is a free program paid for by your local council, we charge a fee for each program delivered to your Kinder/ELC. In addition to the program cost, there are extra charges to cover the return travel from our base in Cheltenham, as well as the time required for our staff to travel and take paid breaks. Your total cost will depend on how far your service is from Cheltenham and how your daily timetable is structured.

Your quote will clearly list all applicable charges, which may include:

• the program cost per number of groups you have booked
• the cost for the time our educator spends travelling to and from your kinder/centre/school
• the cost for the educator’s time during recess, lunch, or other required breaks
• return fuel costs charged at $0.98 per kilometre