QEII High School have been busy finding wonderful, imaginative and exciting ways to raise money for their selected charities! Asthma UK – sponsored car wash/silence/bike ride, guess the name of the bear, how many sweets in a jar. £200 raised Manx Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals – Whole school dress as an […]
Subject Each year over 2 billion t-shirts are sold worldwide. The production of one t-shirt uses 700 gallons of water. The production of cotton textiles also releases by-products of starch, paraffin dyes, pesticides and other harmful products into the air and soil.In 2004 the UK imported approximately 460 million t-shirts. Each t-shirt could have been […]
The girls involved in the Queen Elizabeth II High School ‘Grow your own Project’ were invited to display their clothes they have grown in the bi-annual Manx Wearable Art Show. The girls were given the opportunity to spread their message about the environmental impact and their eco – concerns around ‘fast fashion’. They paraded their garments […]
Subject As fashion conscious teenagers we are aware that many people have to have the latest style and since prices are low many consider clothing to be disposable. This so called ‘fast fashion’ leaves a pollution footprint with each step of the clothing life cycle generating potential environmental and occupational hazards. Influenced by fashion designer […]
We have continued our Paper Cycle Project into the Summer Term. As well as continuing to make our paper fuel briquettes and paper recycling boxes we have started 2 new projects involving recycling paper. These are making seed paper and making paper pots for growing seeds. Paper Briquettes Year 7 students made a further 200 paper […]
Gambia 2011 We were very lucky to embark on a ‘once in a lifetime trip’ to the Gambia. The trip was a prize for winning the Most Outstanding School at the Giving Nation Social Action Awards in October. Giving Nation is a project of the Citizenship Foundation that aims to build engaged and active youth […]
Problems of Travel – A long days’ journey During the week concern universal took us on a two day trip up country to see some of their projects first hand. On the way up we discovered just how difficult it was to travel from one side of the river to the other. After getting up […]
Near the end of the trip to the Gambia we visited Mama Africa, which we were told before arriving is a garden designed to inspire the women of the Gambia. Mama Africa was indeed an inspirational place. Isha Fofana, the artist and owner of the compound, explained to us how in the Gambia it is […]
Visit to Gambia Is Good (GIG) Community Farm Concern Universal is helping local communities to grow fresh produce that can be sold to hotels, restaurants and supermarkets. Over 1000 women have been trained by the GIG project. The women are selected from their communities and training is carried out on the farms. When they return […]
Six of us from school were very lucky to spend a week in Gambia with the Charity Concern Universal. Our school won the Giving Nation Social Action Award 2010. Our mission for the week was to report back on sustainable agricultural and tourism under the guidance of Concern Universal and Giving Nation. We would like […]
