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Write a media release: the greening of our school

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CriticalAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority

1. You are going to write a media release about what your school has done to be environmentally friendly. There are numerous examples of sustainability including:

  • Having a kitchen garden or joining Stephanie Alexander's scheme

  • Having worm farms

  • Recycling

  • Capturing all the rain water off the school's rooves by having a rain water tank

  • Making a compost heap

2. If your school hasn't reached this level of commitment yet, you might like to read about "Getting started with Sustainability in Schools". How or which projects do you think your school or class could undertake?

Sustainability

3. Once you have decided on the project to write a media release on, you need to get started on this particular piece of writing.  

Read the following article and follow the steps outlined there to create a basic media release Reading

Media Release

4. Craft the media release in the format described in the article:

  • Date

  • Headline

  • Lead paragraph

  • Body

  • End

  • Contact information

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