Since 1996 Penrhos College have been actively rehabilitating the Waterford Wetland in the City of South Perth. Students are involved in an integrated environmental education project, from pre-primary through to year 10, and have used information gathered about the site to create education panels to increase the community's awareness of the fragility of the area.

Millennium Kids youth representatives nominated their own site and joined the clean up - Clean Up Australia Day.

North Balga Primary School students recently visited the Herdsman Lake Wildlife Centre to take part in a series of frog activities. Paul Reiffer, the Education Officer, talked to the children about the types of frogs found in the wetland and the children listened to a tape of the frog calls. The children then journeyed along the boardwalk and tried to find frogs in the wild. “It was really hard trying to find the frogs in the reeds because they were camouflaged.” One of the students said. “The frogs were the same colour as the reeds.” North Balga Primary School will be building a series of frog ponds in their gardens. For more information about the WA Gould League Programs call 08 9387 6079.

"We went to the Hills Forest Centre in Mundaring. The water was brown and cold too. We found three quacking frogs and one whooping frog. We are in the water looking for tadpoles and frogs. Lots of people got wet but it was so, so, so great we want to do it again. Children from South Perth Primary School looking for frogs." by Lillian, Alexis and John Henry Aged 7

The Frogs, Phascogales and other Native Creatures workshop at this 2000 Millennium Kids Helping Kids Environmental Conference focussed on building a frog friendly pond in the grounds of Fairbridge. The steps used by the Millennium Kids to build a frog pond are listed below. 1. Find a suitable area. 2. Rake away any stones. 3. Shovel a shallow hole in the cleared area. 4. Cover with thick waterproof plastic. 5. Lay a few rocks around the edge to weigh down the plastic. 6. Pour a little bit of water in hole. 7. Put dry clay around the edge. 8. Water down the clay. 9. Fill the pond with water. 10. Put native rushes in and around the pond. HINTS: * Find some frogs and/or tadpoles and carefully put them into the pond. * If any of your frogs escape, don’t worry, maybe the frog didn’t like your pond. * Don’t try to catch the frog, because it can get stressed out. * Frog ponds need some sun. * To help attract frogs, place native flowering plants to attract insects, which frogs feed off. * Use native water plants for the tadpoles to shelter in. * If mosquitos are a big problem, put in one local native fish. Be careful though, as lots of fish eat the frog’s eggs.

Children from Year 6/7 from Hollywood Primary School took their Year 1/ 2 buddies to the Sir Charles Gairdner Lake to do some water sampling activities. The children had to scoop out a bucket of water and then test it. They looked to see if they could find any of the tiny creatures that live in the water. They are called macro invertebrates. They found lots of different things, but they didn’t find any tadpoles or frogs. “The children found lots of water life, including dragonfly and caddisfly larvae, which indicated the water was in fair condition. We didn’t find any evidence of frog life. The children were taking part in the Ribbons of Blue Snapshot program. For more information about Ribbons of Blue call 08 92780359 or visit their website www.wrc.wa.gov.au/ribbons

10 Steps to a Green Team Project Follow these 10 simple steps to plan your Green Teams environmental project: 1. Identify the environmental problem you would like to solve. 2. What and where is the problem in your community? 3. Research the cause and how to solve the problem. 4. Set your goals. What do you want to achieve? Brainstorm how to achieve your goals with your friends or classmates. 5. Is the environmental problem on private or government owned land? Determine who owns the problem and contact them to see if they are interested in your project idea. 6. Decide who can help you get your project going. Then get your team together. 7. Make a draft plan of action. 8. Consult the community and landowner with your draft plan. Get feedback and review your action plan. 9. Arrange for a grant or sponsorship with local organisations then visit www.millenniumkids.com.au and download the Green Teams grant form. 10. Send your project plans to Millennium Kids. For more information call the Millennium Kids office on 0418 923 968

Kardinya Primary School in the City of Melville showed that they could help Perth's air quality by reducing the number of cars that arrived at the school over a one week period. The children planned to walk, ride, car pool or catch a bus during the TravelS

Kwinana Senior High School have adopted the Spectacles Wetland and have taken part in a wide range of activities to lift the profile and awareness of the area in the community. Tours, Clean Up Australia Day and annual plantings are a few of the activities undertaken by the students through the school curriculum.

Yanchep District High School Year 7 students have adopted Yanchep National Park. The first experience at the park was to get to know the koalas. Children undertook a research project and met the youngest koala face to face.

James Sippe, co founder of the Kids Helping Kids Environmental Conference starts KIDS APPEAL to actively help the communities of Moora, Onslow and Exmouth.

Millennium Kids supported Clean Up Australia Day by acting as youth ambassadors for the launch event. Representatives called on the community, particularly young people, to increase their awareness of the environment and to support Clean Up Day by nominating a site and getting a group of friends together to clean up a local area.

As part of the promotion for Clean Up Day, Manning Primary School students created a "Clean-up-ede" in an effort to get the clean up message out to young people. The "Clean-up-ede" was made using junk and bits of packaging that would otherwise have landed in the rubbish tip.

Manning Primary School joined in the Kids Appeal for Moora, Exmouth and Onslow. In the City of South Perth alone, four schools collected over 1 tonne of blankets, toys and children's clothing that were distributed by the Salvation Army.

Millennium Kids Green Team - Kilsyth Primary School Frog Bog Hop To It Day On Wednesday 21st May 2003 the students of Kilsyth Primary with some help from parents and some students from Pembroke Secondary School got together to build the frog bog and a sensory path. We built our frog bog and made a path that leads to it. We've been in a drought but you wouldn't have known it. The frog bog, which had already been shaped in an earlier working bee, was already full of water. Water that we had to empty out to get the liner in! Mud glorious Mud! It was everywhere! Thank you Millennium Kids, the Mazda Foundation and Alcoa World Alumina Australia. The grades three, four, fives and sixes were split up into groups to work on the path and the frog bog. The path. With the help of parents the path was made by firstly scraping the topsoil to the side. We used this to plant the plants in to form the basis of our sensory trail. Then we laid down crushed rock for the path. The Frog Bog We needed to make a walkway across the Frog Bog that we made with sleepers. In one end of the Frog Bog we put a rubber liner. Then we put in hollow stumps and some water plants. We had to get the water out of the other end of the Frog Bog for a special Butil Liner to go in. The students and parents formed lines to pass the buckets of water to each other to get it out of the Frog Bog and we were left with plenty of Bog! What an exciting. Productive and fantastic day! The Frog Bog looks wonderful and we can't wait to get to work on more planting and landscaping of the Frog Bog. By the way we hope to have Brown Tree Frogs, striped Marsh Frogs and maybe Pobblebonk Frogs by Spring.

Millennium Kids and Tunas Hijau are running a Fundraiser project to help out our Indonesia friends with their vision of a cleaner environment for tomorrow. The money raised from the sales of these beautiful postcards will go to a range of projects across Indonesia, and part proceeds will go to helping the country rebuild after the devestating Tsunami. The postcards designs were done by Indonesian children, and show their dreams for the future of their environment. These postcards are sold in packs of 5 for $10. If you would like to place an order, please contact MK's head office in Fremantle, Western Australia on +61 (08) 9336 7047 or email info@millenniumkids.com.au.

Millennium Kids Australia is running a postcard fundraiser in partnership with Tunas Hijau, to help Indonesian children achieve their dream of ‘Green Spaces’ in the city of Surabaya. The postcards come in four different designs, which were drawn by the kids working on the Surabaya Dreaming project and depict their visions for the future of their environment. When you buy these cards you know you will be helping a child achieve their dreams. Postcards are sold in a pack of 5 for $10 (or $14-50 if you need them posted out to you!) If you would like to purchase a pack, please email info@millenniumkids.com.au, or phone (08) 9336 7047. Or send a cheque to PO Box 760, Fremantle, WA, 6959, with a note telling us how many packs you want, and your return address! Millennium Kids Australia and Tunas Hijau Club Indonesia work together to help children solve environmental problems in their local community. You can read more about Surabaya Dreaming on our ‘News and Views’ page.