Primary programs

The Riverina Environmental Education Centre is a NSW Department of Education school offering a range of programs suitable for students in all Stages. Programs are KLA based, the emphasis being Human Society and Its Environment, Science and Technology, Environmental Education and High Potential Gifted Education.

Programs and activities support the DoE Environmental Education Policy and outcomes contained within the NSW Education Standards Authority syllabus documents for the Australian curriculum.

REEC has a range of programs that have been designed to complement the learning outcomes being completed in the classroom.

All programs are linked to the NSW curriculum

What we offer

Each primary learning program includes:

• fun, hands-on learning outside in nature
• activities that link to science, geography and history
• learning about caring for Country, sustainability and Aboriginal cultures
• tasks that help students think, ask questions and work together
• optional classroom activities before and after the visit
• teachers who are trained and understand the primary school curriculum
• the option to change activities to suit your students’ needs.

A few words from our visiting teachers.....

• "The opportunity to explore themselves, collect specimens and look under the microscopes"

• "Our students love the outdoor games and using the microscopes"
• "The class loved looking through the microscopes at different types of organisms"
• "The circuit kits were a huge hit"
• "Our students loved the physical activity game showing what happens in a food web chain"
• "Your staff are fantastic at engaging our students!"
• "REEC staff were absolutely amazing with our higher needs students!"
• "I love how you guys introduce students to the complex concepts around scientific enquiry in a way they could digest, the metalanguage used, tier 3 words, all thoughtfully explained. The teachers were so patient and pleasant, they didn't get a break from moment we arrived to the moment we left (yes I noticed!) and they were unfaltering in their enthusiasm, desite the heat - well done!"

A few words from our visiting teachers.....