Green Day
The school celebrates "Green Day" - a tradition which encourages students and staff to dress in green to show support for environmental awareness. The celebration includes a concert which usually involves performances by the staff and students, competitions and a "best dressed" contest which awards prizes to the students who are wearing the most green. Other schools within the area have begun to embrace the Green Day tradition, making Lambton High School well known throughout Newcastle. The local ABC radio station broadcasts information about the event annually.
In 2007, the Green Day slogan was "Keep on Rockin' For a Green World" and the focus was on climate change and global warming.
In 2008, the Green Day slogan was "Be Cool to Our World" focusing on issues of Waste and Recycling. Students developed their own pseudo-catchphrase for the event; "Tree on".
In 2009, the Green Day slogan was "Tread Lightly" a reference to the Australian Aborigines, particularly the Awabakal people who are renowned for caring for the local environment.
Green Day 2010 is to be celebrated on Friday 25 June. The theme is biodiversity which is to be carried by the slogan "We are all in this together".
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“Time shall not murder you,” He said,
“Nor the green nought be hurt;
Who could hack out your unsucked heart,
O green and unborn and undead?”
I saw time murder me.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
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Among the streams;
And all day long I look
Upon this lady’s beauty
As though I had found in a book”
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