At Myall Park Botanic Garden we have formed some valuable and mutually beneficial partnerships with like-minded organisations. 

Keep Australia Beautiful Queensland

 

Multiage

 

Dalby Regional Council

 

Toowoomba & Golden West

 

Keep Australia Beautiful Queensland 

From Keep Australia Beautiful:

Partnership with Myall Park Botanic Garden

We are thrilled to be in partnership with the not-for-profit company Myall Park Botanic Garden through the promotion and support of the ‘Save a Species’ programme. Yearly we offer the opportunity to showcase this programme to schools, and include articles about the programme, and the Garden generally, in the email newsletters circulated to all Queensland schools.

In addition, we take the opportunity to discuss our educational programmes with Dr Nita Lester along with other experts, to ensure all are botanically correct and meeting educational guidelines. One such programme is Green and Healthy Schools

Green & Healthy Schools programme overview

Keep Australia Beautiful’s Green and Healthy Schools programme is a cutting-edge, curriculum-based programme that promotes health and the environment through Queensland classrooms. More than 135,000 students and their teachers from 544 schools – 31% of Queensland schools – participate in the programme. 

Green & Healthy Schools encourages schools and their communities to develop a green and healthy philosophy and to tackle a range of issues, environmental protection, litter prevention, resource management, youth initiatives, health, nutrition and fitness, and community partnerships and action.

Schools are provided with a comprehensive resource kit covering everything from environmental audits to curriculum-based activities.  The program features a competition to recognise and reward Green & Healthy endeavours.

Green & Healthy Schools encourages schools to work at their own pace to achieve outcomes relevant to their school and their school community. 

For more information see http://www.keepaustraliabeautiful.org.au

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From Multiage:

The Australian Association of Multiage Education (AAME) has evolved from a growing interest in multiage throughout Australia. Its beginning is rooted in the MultiAge Association of Queensland (MAAQ) and continues to be supported by numerous members throughout Queensland.

How has AAME supported Myall Park Botanic Garden? Through the ‘Save a Species’ programme, many schools have participated in the renewed understanding of the importance of their local environment and the plant species within. Additionally many multiage schools have used the fact sheets developed by the Garden in their classroom studies. AAME produces the ‘Journal of Multiage Education’ and the ‘Save a Species’ programme has been promoted in one of the 2005 editions. 

What is Multiageing? The multiage approach may be defined as a philosophy of learning and teaching. It encompasses two principles.

First, it teaches to the whole development of the child. All the developmental domains are included: intellectual, emotional, social, creative and physical. This is in contrast with a curriculum which has an excessive focus on abstract, academic and formalised teaching. Thus a multiage curriculum may be defined as more age appropriate, because child developmental theories show how children need to experience activities in all the developmental areas. Second, the multiage approach teaches to the developmental stage of the child, not the chronological age of the child. Thus this approach may be defined as a more appropriate method of catering for individual differences. 

For further information: www.australianassociationofmultiageeducation.org 

Email: Dr Margaret Fletcher M.Fletcher@griffith.edu.au   

            Dr Nita C. Lester       N.Lester@griffith.edu.au   

http://www.toowoombaholidays.info/

http://www.westerndownsholidays.info/

Myall Park Botanic Garden is situated in the Western Downs tourism region and is a member of the Toowoomba & Golden West Regional Tourist Organisation, a non-profit, membership based body responsible for marketing the entire region.

Our volunteers and staff benefit from attending meetings and workshops addressing a variety of topical issues.

Learn more through the websites linked above