Mission Updates
Upper School Roots & Shoots starts at TASIS
TASIS Upper School students have joined in with the Lower School to form a new Roots & Shoots Club. The new club not only works on projects with the younger students, but will also meet regularly to design projects of their own. These projects will include helping to improve life on our 46 acre campus […]
Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Peace Day Parade at James Allen’s Prep School – Sept 2015
London UK– Following the lead of their hero—renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE—Students from James Allen’s Prep School in Dulwich, London hosted the 2015 UN International Day of Peace Parade on the school grounds, on Monday 21st September. Students flew a beautiful white Peace Dove that they had worked tirelessly to make, and shared many […]
TASIS Wildlife Roots & Shoots Peace Day 2015
TASIS Wildlife Roots & Shoots Club celebrated the UN International Day of Peace, on 21 September. The children constructed a giant peace dove, no mean feat! Luckily, one of the students in the Upper School wants to be an engineer, and was able to help put together the wire frame beautifully! Then, they covered the […]
Sandfield Close Rhubarb from the Keyhole Garden
ACS Cobham International School Update
Students are especially happy about choosing a chimp through the sponsorship in Kenya. Last year we sold cards with photos of indigenous British animals on them to raise the money for the “adoption”. The 6th grade Roots & Shoots students sold them at a table where they raised awareness about litter and waste outside of […]
Brockenhurst Pre-School’s Summer Term
Good News! After a term focusing on 4 sustainability strands, we were able to gain our SILVER Eco Schools Award – Yippeee!! We looked at Energy – remembering to turn the lights off when we went out of our room, we looked at the solar panels on the village hall roof, we played with various […]
Bee Friendly
At Richard Bonington Primary and Nursery in Arnold, Nottingham the two Year 2 classes have completed a topic on bees. Their work included a demonstration from our local bee keeper including looking in detail at a bee hive and discovering how honey gets from the bee to the jar. They found out about the life of bees that live […]
James Allen’s Prep School Fundraising for Nepal
James Allen’s Prep School is a very young Roots & Shoots school, having joined less than 2 years ago – but the girls have really embraced the wonderful ethos of looking after people, animals and the environment. This term, the whole school was deeply affected by the devastating Nepalese earthquake and the desolation it left […]
Romania TASIS update
Teacher Wendy Gediman regularly takes Upper School students to Romania for service trips. She was recently asked to take two students who were in her fifth grade (Year 6) class last year to Romania this year. One of the girls also had her sister come along, who was in 8th grade (Year 9). The girls’ […]