About the Live Performance

PROJECT GO live in-school performance is coming to schools across the City of Ipswich in Term 4, 2025!

This 30-minute educational theatre performance educates and entertains all about STEM, recycling and sustainability. Two professional actor-educators perform exciting and comedic stories featuring hilarious characters and plenty of audience interaction.

With performances tailored for years P-6 and 7-9, students (and teachers!) will love the unique and memorable learning experience.

Along with the in-school performance, the program includes supplemental print and digital curriculum. It's a perfect way to get your students excited about STEM and Sustainability while providing learning resources for the entire school year!

Primary Program

Secondary Program

What Teachers Say:

Primary School Program

Years P-6

In the outback town of Waste World, Mayor Matilda is in a bind! Robo-Ned, once the town’s smartest recycler, has gone rogue and is leading the Jelly Gang to spread waste across town. With the help of her clever crew, Gerald the Jumbuck, Deputy Mayor Gordon Gumnut, and The Great Barry Reef, Matilda must face Robo-Ned in a showdown of wits, waste, and redemption. Is Matilda Good to GO? Are you ready to help!?

Educational concepts:

What is Waste?
- Exploring how waste is created in everyday life and how it is sorted into landfill, recycling, and garden organics. Introduces waste as a human impact issue and supports early understanding of materials, systems, and responsible resource use.

Why is Recycling important?
- Highlights the environmental impact of waste and how recycling helps reduce pollution and conserves natural resources. Explores the role of recycling and composting systems, and how community action contributes to sustainability.

What is GO Recycling?
- Defines garden organics and what belongs in the GO bin, while introducing the natural processes of decomposition and composting. Explains how organic recycling returns nutrients to the earth and supports sustainable cycles in local environments.

What YOU can do!
- Empowers students to take practical action at school and home to reduce GO waste and recycle correctly. Encourages responsibility, leadership, and an understanding of how small everyday choices support positive change in communities.

Secondary School Program

Years 7-9

In this fast-paced, game show-style incursion, students compete in interactive challenges to tackle real-world GO waste issues. With humour, competition and science-based tasks, students learn how organic recycling works, why it matters, and how climate and community impact waste outcomes. From source separation to community responsibility, students walk away as Good to GO Game Changers at school and at home.

Educational concepts:

What is the problem with Waste?
- Investigates the causes and consequences of waste generation in modern society, including the impacts on ecosystems, climate, and resources.

Why Recycling systems matter
- Explores how recycling reduces environmental harm by conserving resources, minimising pollution, and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Introduces the role of innovation, infrastructure, and behaviour in creating effective waste management systems.

Understanding GO Waste
- Examines how organic materials fit into natural and human-made cycles of resource use and recovery. Highlights decomposition, soil health, and the environmental benefits of returning organic matter to the earth through sustainable practices.

How to be a GO Game Changer
- Empowers students to apply sustainability principles to real-world contexts through informed, responsible action. Promotes personal and community responsibility, ethical understanding, and leadership in waste reduction and resource stewardship.

Teachers: Sign Up Now

All primary and secondary schools across the City of Ipswich can sign up and receive FREE educational theatre, curriculum aligned print and digital materials, and recycling tips with classroom resources. Teachers, sign up today and help your school lead the way in your community's sustainability efforts.