Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre (PEEC) is one of 25 centres operated by the Department of Education and Training. PEEC designs, promotes and delivers arts-based environmental education programs for school children P-7 and additionally provides professional development for teachers. Living and Learning for Sustainability and Connecting to Self, Others and Place are key themes within all centre programs. All PEEC programs are linked to the curriculum and are delivered in a fun and creative way using Storythread as a pedagolgical tool for Learning Beyond the Classroom.
PEEC acknowledges with great respect the First Peoples of the land now known as Australia. Mindful of history, we greatly value and take inspiration from the deep ecological knowledge, the ways of living sustainability, the powerful connections to place, the values and the spirituality inherent in being bonded in relationship with all living things. We wish to acknowledge the ancestors, the traditional elders, and the carriers of the rich Aboriginal culture of the past, present and future. We appreciate and treasure the special pla
ces: the land of the PEEC grounds and the surrounding forests that we are able to visit and experience. As educators for sustainability the PEEC team aims to embed indigenous perspectives in all our work and endeavour to live by our value system of ‘Speak and Act with Respect towards Self, Others and Place
Situated in the foothills of the D’aguilar Range in Brisbane’s Western Suburbs the varied geology and topography provide habitat for a host of flora and fauna including a number of different forest communities. Some are dominated by various species of Eucalypt, Corymbia and Anophora., while steep shady slopes and gullies provide refuge for moisture demanding rainforest species like ferns, figs and palm lilies.
The diverse combination of habitats provides for an equally diverse range of fauna species, including nationally significant species such as powerful owl, sugar and squirrel gliders, and brush tail phascogale. A remarkable array of bird species inhabit this area along with more recent arrivals such as deer, fox, wild cats and dogs. It is not uncommon to arrive to work and find the discarded skin of the resident python snake, spot a wallaby, or find the evidence of a bandicoot foraging for food.