Collicutt is a Learning for a Sustainable Futures School. Our hope is to teach students how to care for Mother Earth and be sustainable leaders.  Collicutt participates in the Little Green Thumbs gardening program which allows us to plant a hallway garden in our school and do inquiry on living things with classes through gardening. We also have a recycling program, in school compost program and participate vermicomposting (worm composting).  We hope to continue to participate in hands on activities to teach children about caring for Mother Earth such as hatching chickens, hatching butterflies and planting plants to have students care for these living things as they grow.

About two years ago Collicutt switched over to a paper towel free school for all grades of students, with the option of cloth towels availabe for students.  This initiative was a community initiavie that was supported by fundrasing for a main floor washer/dryer.  As a result of this initiative Collicutt has greatly reduced our paper towel consumption.

Collicutt has an Indigenous Medicine garden on site where we grow the 4 sacred medicines: sage, tobacco, cedar and sweetgrass, other Indigenous plants as well as the 3 Sister plants.  We continue to hope to make the Medicine Garden a lasting part of our school culture. We have added two rain barrels on site to collect rain water for our Medicine garden and compost bin.  The rain barrels make watering more accessible for students to increase involvement.  Collicutt also teaches aspects of sustainability through an Indigenous lens such as teaching students that every living thing has a spirit, and should be respected including trees and insects.  Students at Collicutt go on field trips each year to the Seven Oaks Indigenous land based learning center, the Aki Center.

Students at Collicutt have lots of opportunities to play/explore the land throughout the seasons at recess time, going on walks, during gym classes and during choice time including having fires at recess in the winter.  Embracing the outdoors year round is something we will continue to encourage with our students and greater community.

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