Celebrating WA’s Environmental Educator of the Year 2025: Peta Scorer
The WA Chapter of the Australian Association for Environmental Education is proud to recognise Peta Scorer as the Environmental Educator of the Year for 2025.
Peta has been a lifelong advocate for sustainability, weaving environmental responsibility into every aspect of her personal and professional life. Her commitment to continuous learning and leadership in environmental education has made her a respected and inspiring figure within the community.
A Leader in Collaboration and Action
Peta’s impact extends far beyond the classroom. She is an active member of multiple professional and community networks, including the South Metro Regional Network of Sustainable Schools (SMRNSS), AAEE, Science Teachers Association of Western Australia (STAWA), Jane Goodall Foundation (Roots & Shoots), and serves on both the Water Wise Teacher Advisory Panel and the Waste Wise Secondary Teacher Group.
At John Curtin College of the Arts, Peta established and coordinates the school’s Sustainability Committee, ensuring representation from every discipline and area of the school. Under her enthusiastic leadership, the committee has driven an impressive range of sustainability initiatives, including:
- WasteSorted School accreditation (since 2015)
- Containers for Change and battery recycling programs
- Clothing and textile recycling, including annual thrift store and clothes swap events
- Waterwise School accreditation and water conservation projects
- National Water Week poetry competition
- Biodiversity kitchen and bush tucker gardens supporting food technologies education
- Energy conservation initiatives, including solar panel installation
- Climate Clever School
- Gold-level ‘Your Move School’ achievement
- Creation of a Black Cockatoo corridor and fundraising for a Cockitrough
- Partnerships with Perth NRM and Friends of Cantonment Hill (Dwerda Weelardinup) for local revegetation projects
- The recent establishment of a Cockatoo food corridor on school grounds, with plans for a permanent water station
Inspiring Change, One Conversation at a Time
Those who know Peta will tell you she approaches her work with equal parts enthusiasm, persistence, and hope. Even on days when progress feels slow, she never gives up encouraging her students, colleagues, family, and friends to live more sustainably and make change within their own spheres of influence.
Her work is a reminder that environmental education is as much about persistence as it is about passion and that small actions, when nurtured and shared, can grow into lasting change.
Congratulations, Peta, and thank you for your extraordinary contribution to environmental education in Western Australia.