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We are Kids in Action

Nurturing environmental literacy, connection, values and action with the Coast’s young future custodians.

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Kids in Action is a Sunshine Coast Council environmental education initiative targeting students in Years 5-8. It aims to increase their environmental knowledge and understanding while inspiring and providing opportunities for positive environmental and sustainability action.

The program achieves this through the active involvement of students in planning and delivering peer-to-peer learning experiences on a student-generated environmental project. It also connects participating classes with local environment groups and mentors, creating genuine learning exchanges between current and future environmental custodians.

The program focuses on a variety of locally-relevant, curriculum-linked environmental themes (such as threatened species, waterways and coastal environments, cultural heritage and sustainability). Through this process, students develop leadership and active citizenship skills. Check out the findings from an evaluation study conducted in 2014 of the benefits to students from taking part in Kids in Action. 

The Kids in Action program is underpinned by a kids teaching kids pedagogical model that starts in the classroom and extends to the wider community. The program is delivered through a number of key activities:

  1. Teacher Information Session (for teachers only) – Thursday 13 and Wednesday 19 February 2025, from 3.30pm online.
    Find out more about Kids in Action, its benefits and outcomes for students and teachers, the 2025 theme and program, and how we will support your school’s involvement. Tickets will be available soon.
  2. Project development (for students and teachers) - Term 1 through Term 3
    - work together, with guidance from teachers and mentors, on their own school project. This will be delivered at the conference as a workshop, interactive display or main stage presentation.
  3. Reconciliation in Action Professional Learning Day (for teachers only) – Wednesday 11 June 2025 (all day). Opportunity for teachers to participate in a deeply immersive day on Country connecting with members and Elders of Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and First Nations communities. Delve into dimensions of Reconciliation, actively engage in Truth-Telling, forge connections with Country, and learn essential cultural protocols.
  4. Kids in Action Conference (for students and teachers) – Wednesday 17 September 2025. Students present their workshop, display or performance projects to each other in a day-long conference in a natural classroom setting.
  5. Kids in Action Field Day (for students and teachers) – Thursday 18 September 2025. Students actively learn from and collaborate with a variety of community experts and mentors in real-life natural resource management, First Nations culture, and citizen science activities, as they are immersed in and connect with nature and their ecological identity.
  6. Community Roadshow (for students and teachers) – October/November 2025. Schools are invited to take their presentations on the road to share their environmental messaging with the broader community at local shopping centres, exhibition spaces and community events.

Join other schools from across the Sunshine Coast region in a hands-on, active and engaged environmental learning adventure!

Cost

$150 covers 12 delegates from your school ($10 per additional student) and includes:

  • participation in one or both the Kids in Action Conference and Field Day events; and
  • access to the Kids in Action education team, resources and members to assist presenting schools in the lead up to the Conference.

Funding schemes

Teacher Support Funding Scheme ($350) is available to presenting schools delivering a workshop, display or main stage performance or short film, and can be used to:

  • allow a teacher time out of the classroom to accompany a group of presenting students attending the program,
  • cover the costs associated with a skilled mentor coming to your school to help your students with the presentation, and/or
  • acquire resources and materials needed for your presentation, workshop or display.

New School Attendance Scheme ($350) is available to schools within the Sunshine Coast Council region that haven’t attended Kids in Action before to support their participation and provide a firsthand insight into the program.

Watch highlights from previous years.

Kids in Action is proudly supported by council’s Environment Levy and major partners and sponsors.

Proudly working in partnership with Traditional Custodians and First Nations People on Kabi Kabi and Jinibara Country.

The 2019 Kids in Action program won the prestigious Queensland Reconciliation Award (Partnerships Category) for partnering with Kabi Kabi and Jinibara First Nations communities to build and share understanding, appreciation, knowledge and connection with Culture and caring for Country.

In 2023 Kids in Action won the ‘Excellence in Community Shaping’ at the LGMA Awards for Excellence, recognising outstanding achievement in Queensland local government.