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School Name
  Manor Gardens Primary
Rationale / Mission
  • To learn more about our environment and find ways to look after the plants and animals around us,
• make others in our community aware of how our behaviour and actions affect our environment,
Vision
  • Including environmental teaching in our curriculum.
• Disseminating information regarding our glass recycling bin (placed outside of the school), our paper bins in each of the classrooms and igloo at the back of the school
Initiatives
  • make recycling part of our daily programme,
• do what we can to save water and electricity at school and at home
• Disseminating information regarding our glass recycling bin (placed outside of the school), our paper bins
Existing School Focus Areas
 

  • Biodiversity Network
  • Community & Social Responsibility
  • Production, Consumption & Waste
  • Water & Sanitation

Establish An Adult Action Team & A Learner Action Team / Eco-club
 

  • We have an Adult Action team
  • We have a Learner Action team / Eco-club

Action Team Member List
 

Name of staff/parent/community member Grade/role/task assigned
Mia Horthorp Eco-co-ordinator and Grade 7 teacher
Adam Eco-Club teacher

Year One Focus Area
 

Focus Area Details
Water & Sanitation
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Target 1
Cut municipal water for Grade 2-7: We continue to use our borehole water and JOJO tanks in as many ways as possible. This year our grade 7 bathroom block was taken off municipal water and connected to borehole water. This means that we now have our grade 2 – 7 toilets on borehole or JOJO tank water. Additionally, there is a water fountain that has been built outside the grade 6 & 7 toilet block. For this reason we were able to move the basin water in this block over to the borehole water as well.
Target 1: Goals
Goal Identified Action Identified Location/Area within School Implementation steps Resources needed Who is responsible? Deadline
Cut Muicipal water grade 2-7 Ensure grade 7 toilets are attached to bore/jojo tanks within school pumping school maintenance 30 Nov 2024
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Focus Area Details
Community & Social Responsibility
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Target 1
Continue to collect bread tags for wheelchairs: support the initiative which allows for the recycling of these small plastic waste items and raises money for wheelchairs and other mobility devices for people from disadvantaged communities.
Target 1: Goals
Goal Identified Action Identified Location/Area within School Implementation steps Resources needed Who is responsible? Deadline
Collect breadtags each class to collect breadtag within the school bins for breadtags 30 Nov 24
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This year we were again invited by Clothes to Good (CTG) to participate in their exciting social and environmental awareness program.
Target 2: Goals
Goal Identified Action Identified Location/Area within School Implementation steps Resources needed Who is responsible? Deadline
Source old clothes for donation within and outside the school Eco-Club 30 Nov
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Focus Area Details
Biodiversity Network
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Target 1
Extend the indigenous gardenThe large tarmac area between two classroom blocks was, in 2022, converted into another lovely indigenous garden! We are extending this garden slightly so that two previously separated areas are joined with paths and a large chess board in between.
Target 1: Goals
Goal Identified Action Identified Location/Area within School Implementation steps Resources needed Who is responsible? Deadline
Extend indigenous garden within school indigenous plants, compost,spades Ground staff and ec-club 30 November 2024
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Target 2 (Optional)
Remove alien invasives
Target 2: Goals
Goal Identified Action Identified Location/Area within School Implementation steps Resources needed Who is responsible? Deadline
Remove alien invasives within school ground staff 30 Nov 24
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Production, Consumption & Waste
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To recycle white paper, cardboard and PET plastic, great opportunity for women in the community to make money off our recycled material: We still have our Mpact paper recycling bin and so all paper and books that need to be recycled are deposited in this bin.

We also collect white paper for a company called Eazi Waste. They are able to recycle white paper only.

We make our own workbooks and therefore use more paper than other schools which use textbooks, however, as far as possible we make use of both sides of the paper that we use and the pupils are encouraged to recycle their books and booklets at the end of the year. Whenever possible, paper is recycled within the classrooms as scrap paper for the pupils to use.

Cardboard is collected in our cardboard shelter and community members who collect cardboard for recycling as income can access this.

We have asked the same community member if she would also like our plastic PET waste and cans. She will be collecting this too from now on.

Target 1: Goals
Goal Identified Action Identified Location/Area within School Implementation steps Resources needed Who is responsible? Deadline
To Recycling white paper in each classroom within school 30 Nov 2024
Potential Partners
Name of partner Type of Partner
Mpact recycling NPO
Eazi Waste recycling organisation
Target 2 (Optional)
To set up a glass recycling depo for the wider community: We have finally managed to convince The Glass Co that we should receive a glass bank (they said that our collection was too small – we argued that we are a small school and that surely a glass bank was a recycling initiative and not just a money making one!) We have this near our car park and have also invited the wider Manor Gardens community to make use of this.
Target 2: Goals
Goal Identified Action Identified Location/Area within School Implementation steps Resources needed Who is responsible? Deadline
To set up glass recycling and make it viable for Glass Co to continue supporting us with their collection services within school glass bin, space, lables 30 Nov 2024
Potential Partners
Name of partner Type of Partner
Glass Co organization for recycling
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