Environmental and Zoo education centres
Environmental and Zoo education centres (EZEC) are staffed by trained teachers and support NSW Public Schools.
Our school is built on a culture of collaboration with the following partners: Environmental and Zoo Education Centres (EZEC), National Parks and Wildlife Service, members of the local Aboriginal community, local AECG, and local schools.
The Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre Office is located at Kurnell Public School in southern Sydney. Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre provides students, teachers, and their communities with rich, meaningful experiences in and around the natural, built, historic, and cultural environment to enhance their understanding of, and influence on, our land, water, wildlife, and society.
Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre celebrates the unique cultural and spiritual relationship of the First Peoples to Dharawal Country and values the wisdom of the Gweagal family in caring for the land.
Our role is to empower our students and school communities to innovate and apply sustainability principles by showcasing how we, at Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education, are changing our practices. We aim to encourage others to do the same.
Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre provides high-quality teaching and learning programs to support our community of schools with environmental and sustainability education. Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre is committed to supporting Public Education across NSW with face-to-face and virtual learning.
Our programs aim to excite curiosity, stimulate appreciation of nature and history, and inspire a passion to be agents of change. Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre strives to ensure that all students attending our programs are engaged and challenged, with the Environmental Education Centre staff, imparting deep, authentic content knowledge. Programs support the NSW curriculum to improve student learning outcomes.
The Centre's K-12 teaching programs place an emphasis on the cross-curriculum priority areas of Sustainability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture. Our school achieves this through the provision of high-quality fieldwork and environmental and sustainability educational programs with locations in and around the Kurnell/Cronulla area or at sites near/within schools.
Bonita Hawkes Relieving Principal