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Biodiversity Network

Planned Action/Activities: e.g. Plant biodiversity garden	What is your goal/target for this action: e.g. add another Indigenous bed and maintain the previous; increase the percentage of locally Indigenous plants by 30%	Who is responsible? E.g. Grade 4 – 7’s	Possible lesson/s and or Environmental Celebrations to support the actions/activities & for which grade e.g. Gd 4 – 7 NS T1 – focus on Biodiversity/ecosystems.
1. Observing and then educating the children on the variety of species of birds, insects, moluscs and reptiles on our campus.2. Planting flowers and herbs in the sensory garden to encourage exploration. 3. Continue with revegetating banks to prevent soil erosion and bring biodiversity back to the area.	1. 24 outdoor lessons across 77 children 2.A fully integrative garden that incorporates taste, touch, smell and sight 3.Complete revegetating both banks where soil erosion was originally very present	All classes, 77 children	Enviro Calendar Days:World Bee Day, Save the Frogs Day, Bird Migration Day, World Environment Day Lessons: Snail study, Insect walk, Make bee drinking stations, Bird ringing observation at school. Every Monday they bring a item from nature into school to discuss at circle time. Eco Club lesson on how to plant seedlings Propogation of plants via slips lesson

Name of partner	Type of Partner
The Glass Recycling Company collects our glass to recycle Eazi Waste collects ours cans, cardboard, common paper and plastic bottles Wessa sponsors us with plants and toys Nature Connect provides resources for lesson plans through the portal Be Sustainably Yours runs 4 week long courses at our school to help less fortunate schools to start up sustainability projects.	Organization

Community & Social Responsibility

Planned Action/Activities: e.g. Plant biodiversity garden	What is your goal/target for this action: e.g. add another Indigenous bed and maintain the previous; increase the percentage of locally Indigenous plants by 30%	Who is responsible? E.g. Grade 4 – 7’s	Possible lesson/s and or Environmental Celebrations to support the actions/activities & for which grade e.g. Gd 4 – 7 NS T1 – focus on Biodiversity/ecosystems.
1. Support poorer communities with regular donations of food and clothing 2. Upgrade the recycling centre and open the school to the community as a recycling drop off point3. Start an e-waste collection point.3. Start an e-waste collection point	1.Donate 140 items of clothing over the course of the year to the Bux farm community 1. Raise funds to upgrade the recycling centre and keep community updated about the recycling centre via Whatsapp. Make the recycling centre more user friendly and open it on one day during the weekend.33.To encourage the community to disponse of their e-waste in a way that serves a healthy environment.	All 77 children and community	Enviro Days:Nelson Mandela Day, Global Recycling Day, International e-waste day 1.Have a civvies day and the cost of wearing civvies is to bring one older garment to school which can be donated 2.Recycling competitions to encourage children to bring in waste to be recycled. Prizes for the class with the biggest collection of waste products (Term 1: Cans, Term 2: TetraPak Cartons, Term 3: Glass, Term 4: Plastic soda and 2l milk bottles)

Name of partner	Type of Partner
The Glass Recycling Company collects our glass to recycle Eazi Waste collects ours cans, cardboard, common paper and plastic bottles Wessa sponsors us with plants and toys Nature Connect provides resources for lesson plans through the portal Be Sustainably Yours runs 4 week long courses at our school to help less fortunate schools to start up sustainability projects.	Organization

Energy & Climate Action

Planned Action/Activities: e.g. Plant biodiversity garden	What is your goal/target for this action: e.g. add another Indigenous bed and maintain the previous; increase the percentage of locally Indigenous plants by 30%	Who is responsible? E.g. Grade 4 – 7’s	Possible lesson/s and or Environmental Celebrations to support the actions/activities & for which grade e.g. Gd 4 – 7 NS T1 – focus on Biodiversity/ecosystems.
1. Focus on reducing consumption of electricity at school 2. Solar Geyser 3. Local parents – car pool initiative	1.Maintain the cost of electricity that the school pays despite the 12% increase in the price of electricity 2.Maintain the cost of heating the water in the kitchen geyser despite the 12% electricity price hike	Staff at Birches and 77 children	Enviro days: earth Day; Lessons: Helpers to switch off lights when they leave the classroom at play time or at ring time. Run solar geyser on sunny days

Name of partner	Type of Partner
The Glass Recycling Company collects our glass to recycle Eazi Waste collects ours cans, cardboard, common paper and plastic bottles Wessa sponsors us with plants and toys Nature Connect provides resources for lesson plans through the portal Be Sustainably Yours runs 4 week long courses at our school to help less fortunate schools to start up sustainability projects.	Organization

Production, Consumption & Waste

Planned Action/Activities: e.g. Plant biodiversity garden	What is your goal/target for this action: e.g. add another Indigenous bed and maintain the previous; increase the percentage of locally Indigenous plants by 30%	Who is responsible? E.g. Grade 4 – 7’s	Possible lesson/s and or Environmental Celebrations to support the actions/activities & for which grade e.g. Gd 4 – 7 NS T1 – focus on Biodiversity/ecosystems.
1. Use fallen branches and cut branches and turn them into compost and mulch to re-use within the environment. 2. Continue to use worm wee to supplement the water used for the gardens to promote healthy soil and growth 3. Upgrade the recycling centre and open the school to the community as a recycling drop off point.	1.No purchasing of compost or potting soil for the Eco-Clubs potting and planting activities. All compost generated on the school property 2.Keep the wormery well stocked with food scraps to ensure worms keep producing worm wee for us to heavest 3.Raise funds to upgrade the recycling centre and keep community updated about the recycling centre via Whatsapp. Make the recycling centre more user friendly and open it on one day during the weekend.	All 77 children, staff and the community	1.Formalise a day for children to bring in “worm food” after the lesson of the benefits of earthworms in the garden. 2.Recycling competitions to encourage children to keep litter out of the landfills and help them to become acutely aware of a litter free environment around them Enviro day: World Ocean Days

Name of partner	Type of Partner
The Glass Recycling Company collects our glass to recycle Eazi Waste collects ours cans, cardboard, common paper and plastic bottles Wessa sponsors us with plants and toys Nature Connect provides resources for lesson plans through the portal Be Sustainably Yours runs 4 week long courses at our school to help less fortunate schools to start up sustainability projects.	Organization

Health & Well-being

Planned Action/Activities: e.g. Plant biodiversity garden	What is your goal/target for this action: e.g. add another Indigenous bed and maintain the previous; increase the percentage of locally Indigenous plants by 30%	Who is responsible? E.g. Grade 4 – 7’s	Possible lesson/s and or Environmental Celebrations to support the actions/activities & for which grade e.g. Gd 4 – 7 NS T1 – focus on Biodiversity/ecosystems.
1.Maintaing the fruit forest and plant more fruit trees if possible 2. Planting vegetables in the food tunnels	1.Harvest fruit to use within the school or to sell to the parents to make money to re-invest into the school’s garden 2.Teaching children how to handle seedlings. Showing them how to harvest groups without disturbing the whole plant.	All 77 children and staff	Enviro days: World Food Day Lessons: Children in 3-4 year groups do a fruit study and discuss seeds, skin, pith and make a fruit salad when we do our Keeping healthy theme. 5-6 year old groups help to sell to parents in the morning during our Money and Entrepreneurship theme Eco-Club activity – planting food, using compost and watering with a diluted worm wee

Name of partner	Type of Partner
The Glass Recycling Company collects our glass to recycle Eazi Waste collects ours cans, cardboard, common paper and plastic bottles Wessa sponsors us with plants and toys Nature Connect provides resources for lesson plans through the portal Be Sustainably Yours runs 4 week long courses at our school to help less fortunate schools to start up sustainability projects.	Organization

Water & Sanitation

Planned Action/Activities: e.g. Plant biodiversity garden	What is your goal/target for this action: e.g. add another Indigenous bed and maintain the previous; increase the percentage of locally Indigenous plants by 30%	Who is responsible? E.g. Grade 4 – 7’s	Possible lesson/s and or Environmental Celebrations to support the actions/activities & for which grade e.g. Gd 4 – 7 NS T1 – focus on Biodiversity/ecosystems.
1. Maintain the 8 JoJo tanks around the school 2. Pump water from 1/8 Jojo tanks into the Senior bathroom to flush the toilets	1.Ensure that municipal water is never used unless it is absolutely necessary. 2.Lower our Ethekweni Bill and teach children the value of rain water collection.	All 77 children and 7 staff	Enviro Day: World Water Day: 1.Use the water tanks to irrigate all the gardens during Eco Club lessons and by our Estate Manager 2.During our “Water Theme” we switch off the municipal water supply completely and the children think of ideas of how they can collect rain water and how they can use grey water

Name of partner	Type of Partner
The Glass Recycling Company collects our glass to recycle Eazi Waste collects ours cans, cardboard, common paper and plastic bottles Wessa sponsors us with plants and toys Nature Connect provides resources for lesson plans through the portal Be Sustainably Yours runs 4 week long courses at our school to help less fortunate schools to start up sustainability projects.	Organization