At Margaret River Primary School we are committed to learning about and caring about the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development that the United Nations (the World) have agreed to work towards.
Every one of our inquiries will be focused around one or more of these goals. They are goals which will help to make our world a better place and a safer and healthier planet way into the future. Each one of us needs to learn about these goals and try to do our little bit to help meet these goals by 2030!
Which Global Goal/s do you think matches up with our inquiries this term: EQ Health Inquiry, and Our Patch Structures Inquiry?
So what are these goals? What do each of them mean? Watch this video to find out more.
and just what does Sustainable or Sustainability actually mean? Click on this link to read a definition to understand it.
DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF SUSTAINABILITY
A person who stood up and acted (just like in the video above) is Greta Thunberg. She started to take action while at primary school and she started a world-wide movement of young people fighting Climate Change. This video clip outlines her story and what she believes in. (Please note that some things she says might be upsetting, but she wants to shock people into investigating the facts and threats of climate change.)
What we all need to do, to be able to achieve the goal of 2030, is to:
- Understand what the goals are
- Think about simple things we can do that will help
- Remember that we all have to work together to achieve these goals for our world.
ACT LOCALLY – THINK GLOBALLY!