Treading lightly on the earth NICOLE ROACHE, MARKETING MANAGER
Stalwart of the Year 4 Enviro program at the Middle School, Will Johnston has, for 26 years, inspired curiosity in our learners across Middle and Junior School teaching a variety of roles including Mathematics, Humanities, and the Year 6 Multimedia program. A quiet but principled leader, Will Johnston is best known for his role in leading the Enviro program, and has held several positions of responsibility in his time at the College. He has been the E-Learning Leader and Maths Coordinator in Upper Primary and the Year 4,5 6 Year level coordinator, and was a dedicated coach of APS cricket. He now closely supports the student representative council’s Enviro
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group, encouraging these students to promote sustainability and to act.
work and the associated academic rigour across the gamut of subjects.
But it was in 2007 that he found his ‘place’ at the College, in the Year 4 Enviro program, and it is his great contribution to the students’ learning and the garden itself that will be his legacy.
“What we do in the Enviro program is embedded in meaning. The kids engage in meaningful activities. The food that they grow and cook, then share with each other and with their parents, the My Place project, and the biographies of people who are doing great work in the community, it’s real work, with a purpose.
Will truly loves what happens in Enviro because of both the meaning of the
