We know teachers love resources so we have developed an Eco-Beasts Assembly Pack for you to use. It covers what happened at the CAD day, launches our ‘Design an Eco Beast’ competition and explains the tricky concept of sustainability through drama. You also get access to all the photos from the day. This particular pack also launches a sustainability week at your school, there is an additional PowerPoint with lots of ideas to get your creativity flowing. Please use, adapt, add to and comment, we would love to see what you are doing at your school!
Follow this link to the Google Drive folder or download Microsoft documents below.
Last Sunday EcoBeasts appeared in the Bangkok Post, see who you can spot in the online article below! Thanks to our awesome Sustainability Journalist Ewen Mcleish for making this happen.
We hope you all enjoyed seeing our machines at work at EcoBeasts CAD day, we really enjoyed meeting you all. As you know we collect plastic waste across the city and turn it into new products, making waste use-able again, this not only helps to clean up our city but also helps develop a circular economy.
We have made a great start but now need your help!
We need to collect lots of plastic waste, at the moment we are using bottle tops and need as many as we can get. We have made some posters for you to display at school. As EcoBeasts, think about how you can best collect these tops at your school? How can you make sure everyone know about it? Can you collect from family and friends as well? Can you use this collection to raise awareness about the plastic problem?
NOTE: Please be careful not to encourage more people to use more plastic bottles in order to collect lids, reusable is still better! It can be hard to make these changes all of the time, so by re-purposing your lids with us, you help make less waste.
When you have lots of lids ready to be collected, please message us on here, you can comment on this blog post and we will come and pick them up.
Precious Plastic are excited to be spreading the word of plastic re-purposing at Bangkok Design Week from 26th Jan to 3rd Feb and will need as many bottle tops as possible. If you want to see the machines in action again, please come along!
Pupils
need to take the lead in developing the Action Plan
14/11/2018
Harrow Global Eco Committee
Date Action Plan was developed: ____________________
Action Plan developed by: __________________________
Topic
Action
Target/Measure
WASTE
To place recycling bins in each classroom
To have recycling bins for paper, plastic,
glass in each corridor
To establish which binsTo gather and distributeTo ensure they are used
WASTE
To have each classroom complete a
reduce/reuse/recycle series of lessons
To set an eco fortnightTo plan and develop
activities which year groups can do to learnTo set a questionnaire
about this
WASTE
To reduce the amount of paper used by staff
Establish how much is usedTalk to staff about how we
can reduce paperMonitor the amount of
paper used
WASTE
To increase the amount of recycled materials
sent to charities
Speak to teachers about
putting materials aside rather than throwing awayEstablish links with local
schools/charities who would like additional suppliesKeep records of what we
send
ENERGY
To ensure lights and computers are turned off
when not in use
Establish monitors who
track whether lights are on or offCreate posters for each
classroom/corridorEstablish half termly
Energy champions
ENERGY
To turn off AC when not in use
As with lights but AC
focus
ENERGY
To read the school’s energy meters
Discuss with MR and TC
about looking at the energy metersTrack energy consumption
and share with Junior children
ENERGY
To ensure all pupils know of renewable energies
To begin to discuss if any renewable energy can
be used at school
As part of Eco Fortnight,
have children learn about renewable energies and how these help our planetTo speak with MR, EH and
TC about whether renewable energies can be used at Harrow – if so, where?
BIO-Diversity
To establish the Nature Garden for all children
Have every child made
aware of the nature garden and its purpose
BIO-Diversity
To complete wildlife surveys
To decide why we are
looking for wildlife and which wildlifeTo assign year groups the
task of completing the surveys
BIO-Diversity
To grow plants and vegetables in school
To establish Raised Beds
in the nature areasTo work with Grounds
staff/gardeners to plant different plants and vegetables
BIO-Diversity
To ensure all students are aware of what
bio-diversity is
Through science lessons
establish the term ‘bio-diversity’ and ensure children know what it means
Here is what we have been up to at St. John Mary International School!
This past January, SJMIS proudly launched its “Recycling and Eco-Sustainability program”. On January 10, Teacher Fred took a small group of Grade 5 and Grade 6 students to a community action day in Bangkok with other international schools. They participated in workshops thinking of ways to make their schools more “eco friendly”.
Three weeks later, they held a school-wide assembly where they taught students and teachers about climate change, recycling and how our actions as individuals and and as a school can make a positive impact.
From Feb 11-Mar 11, the Elementary School has conducted a “Homeroom recycling challenge” in which each homeroom collected plastic bottles,paper, aluminum cans and glass bottles. Over four weeks, the school collected and recycled over 235 kg (518lbs) of material! The program has been an exciting and eye opening experience for the SJMIS community. On one hand, we have seen how the spirit of competition can inspire us to do great work. On the other, we have seen how challenging it is to (a) spread this message to our larger community and (b) connect with recycling companies in our area.
We look forward to sharing more about our progress as our program grows. Our hopes include starting a student club, creating a raised-bed vegetable garden from eco bricks and cement and selling reusable products like bamboo straws in our school store!
We are only two weeks in to collecting our bottle tops and look how many we have gotten already!The Lahu box was overflowing!So the Year 1 children had to come and sort it out!
The 4 STA 71 Houses are competing for a whopping 50 House Points which goes to the house which collects the most plastic bottle caps. These bottle caps will then be meted down and made into useful household objects.
