Recycling
Here in Verdala International School we like to keep it busy. We have been recycling glass, metal, and plastic at the school for about 8 years now.  Paper we have been recycling for about 15 years.  We have the 4 colored bins in the 3 sections of the school, elementary, middle and high school.  We are trying to do our bit here in Malta.

 
Walk for Wildlife
We very much like to be involved in fund raising activities. During the years between 2002 and 2007 the Middle School at Verdala International School participated in a …

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Project Subject:
Paper is a commodity used to excess in the modern world. Books, pages, lined paper, blank paper, pamphlets, posters, packaging – everywhere you look, there it is. In a busy school environment, thousands of pieces of paper are used every week – and a good number of these are just wastefully thrown away. Our eco-committee saw this great waste – and decided to do something about it. For the past three years we have raised awareness through posters (admittedly fighting fire with fire); promoted our school websites as alternatives to paper, and where we couldn’t reduce the paper we reused and recycled it.
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What an exciting opportunity it was when a local artist, Binki Rees, approached the school with an offer of building an outside kiln in our ecology area.  Choosing a small group of our environmental leaders and arts leaders we met up on a Saturday morning to create the kiln.

With the aid of an old oil drum as the start we mixed mud and water from our farm area into a sticky mess using our feet.  A great mess and lots of fun.  We then added some local clay to the mix to make it stick and rolled it into mud bricks.These were then placed around the drum to create our outside kiln.

The following weekend, after it had dried, we came …

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Pupils have spent several weeks planning and creating 5 eco-friendly ECO-systems in the Biology Department at Robert Gordon’s College.

A tired display cupboard was in much need of a revamp so pupils were invited to choose what could be done to make it look interesting.  The whole idea then expanded due to pupil interest and creative ideas.  After a brainstorming session the pupils decided to split into smaller groups in order to make different ecosystems.  The main objective was to transform the 5 shelves into 5 different ecosystems.  Each group planned the look of their ecosystem, habitat and populations.  We then decided that to create the …

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As Ringwood’s work on the One World theme continued throughout the Summer term, we tried to meet the Roots & Shoots challenge of spreading the word of Roots & Shoots (Exercise 2 of J’s Lost Notebook). The many school and community projects that we have been involved with and that are described below, have allowed us to share the ideas of Roots & Shoots.

We agree with the Roots & Shoots principle that is so beautifully demonstrated with the Greater Gombe ecosystem, that making small scale local changes can make a big difference over time. Our first application of this principle relates to Fairtrade. Our Chronobots have worked throughout the year to raise the profile of Fairtrade in the community. To …

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Dust Bowl Project:
Environmental Factors
Agents learnt how and why the American Dust Bowls emerged and then looked at the effects on the people involved.

Kent’s environmental change 80 yrs later was due to many of the same factors and the agents studied how scientists, farmers and environmentalists tackled the problem then and now. They carried out surveys to identify water usage in their homes and gardens and compared the results on the basis of the number of individuals living in each home and the facilities available. They also observed how much water was potentially being …

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Our Eco group have had a hit squad working on our school’s carbon foot print.

We started our Eco group in September 2008 and have been busy workers from mucky gardeners to being Eco-fairies.

Just a little taste of what we have been doing…

First of all we did a litter pick on our school field…mainly rubbish from people who use it in the evening! We recycled what we could in our new recycling bins.
We have also started a vegetable garden in our Year 7 yard – we have grown, onions, brussel sprouts, radish, tomatoes, potatoes and lot more yummy food!  !
We have planted some plants and trees in our huge field.
We have also created several Eco-fairies. We go around all the classrooms in …

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I can’t begin to write this posting without first offering a huge Thank-You to everyone at Roots & Shoots for our Gold Award. It helps that we are family based and that the agents who are able bodied do not appear to perceive other agents’ difficulties as a barrier to certain experiences. I think one of the greatest assets of the group is their willingness to adapt and accommodate the array of strategies we employ.

One of the …

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We have been learning about recycling. A member of the county recycling team came to talk to us about waste education. We provide recycling facilities in our school grounds for all the village. We learnt the importance of reusing and reducing waste. We are all responsible for keeping our environment tidy and reducing energy consumption.

As part of our eco-campaign we organised a collection of Christmas cards and recycled them at school.