Waste Week

We launched our Waste Week Campaign during assembly on April 20th 2015. We talked about the problems of waste asked the whole school to join in with our campaign to minimise waste. We also challenged everyone to make something creative out of waste and bring it to school for a competition.

   

     

Some really creative children

Community Clean Up

Love Where You Live

Part of our Eco Campaign is to promote a litter free environment. We have been trying to organise a monthly community clean up, but have not always been successful with the regularity due to other commitments and the weather. Nevertheless we will keep on trying to organise it monthly.

 

First clean up around G15 area.

Second clean up around H15 flats.

 

Third clean up around H15 flats (opposite end).

The Gardening Club

The Hornbill Gardening Club

(involving young children and parents in our school's gardening activities)

 

 

 

Week 1: Learning about 'Safety in the Garden' and sowing seeds.

Week 2: Transplanting the seedlings into the seed trays to develop a healthy root system.

The 5 weeks journey - from the seed to the plate

The children enjoy setting up the market stall

Planting passion fruit around the school.

Planting passion fruit trees around the school.

 

3 months and some of the plants are doing really well. Unfortunately few are not doing so well as the soil is not very good and the plants are not getting enough care. Lets hope the passion fruits  do well.

Finally the fruits of patience and passion.

Energy Month

We are participating in the Energy Month campaign this November. Last week some of the Eco Warriors launched this campaign in the assembly. We also asked all the clases to make an energy pledge for their classroom. This week the Eco Police are on patrol during break ensuring that energy is saved as and when possible, specially during breaks.

 

Organic Garden

At present we have 8 raised vegetable beds in school which we use for growing organic vegetables. The Eco Warriors help look after the garden and also sell the produce that we harvest. We are also looking at growing vegetables in containers.

Hornbill Hawkers

Working in the garden is not just about learning to grow, but about learning a lot of other curricular skills as well. We do a lot of English and maths through our gardening activities. Children are learning to use scales to measure our produce, a practicle, relevant and an engaging way of learning. They also make their own bags out of recycled paper to pack what we sell, so we dont have to use plastic bags. Selling is a great way of developing speaking and listening skills and handling money. This is a more meaningful way of learning various skills in school.