School Name
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Lions River Primary School
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Rationale / Mission
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The protection of the environmental and the education of learners to make environmentally sound life choices
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Vision
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To develop a culture within our broader school community that recognizes the shared responsibility to take care of nature.
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Please tell us what activities/environmental initiatives your school is currently implementing.
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Community and Social responsibility: collecting paper waste projects/ Energy and Climate Change – using our solar cooker, expanding our solar panels / Healthy living: Apple Peach Trees Water and sanitation: Tippy taps
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Select / tick the Focus Areas your school is currently working on.
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- Community & Social Responsibility
- Energy & Climate Action
- Health & Well-being
- Water & Sanitation
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Establish An Adult Action Team & A Learner Action Team / Eco-club
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- We have an Adult Action team
- We have a Learner Action team / Eco-club
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Action Team Member List
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Name of staff/parent/community member |
Grade/role/task assigned |
Matlaba Zuma, Slo Mhlongo, Mr Chiliza |
Eco-Committee |
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Focus Area
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Focus Area
Focus Area Details
Health & Well-being
Target 1: Goals
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. |
Plant the gardens with vegetable seedling for an all-year round havest |
Teach all grades some gardening skills |
Grade 1-7 |
Photosynthesis -Grade 6/7 NS Biodiversity-Grade 7 NS |
Use our small budget to buy seedlings |
Show evidence of one home/ one garden |
Grade 1-7 |
Nutrition LS Grade 5 |
Inspire vegetarian cooking |
Collect at least 40 family local vegetarian recipes |
Grade 6-7 |
Nutrition Grade 6 LS. 16th Oct-World Food Day 24: Heritage day |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
Love Howick |
Organization |
One Planet |
Organization |
Focus Area Details
Production, Consumption & Waste
Target 1: Goals
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. |
Inspire grade 6 and 7 learners to collect and build eco-bricks at home and at school |
Collect 200 eco-bricks |
Grade 6-7 |
Recycling and Natural resource Grade 6 NS Impacts on the environment and pollution-Grade 7 SS grade 6 |
Clean up compaign in local Lions River community |
Collect up to 20 bags of waste |
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Calendar Days: Nelson Mandela 67 Min clean up/ National Recycling Day |
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Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
Love Howick – Wendy Nhlongo |
Organization |
One Planet |
Organization |
Focus Area Details
Water & Sanitation
Target 1: Goals
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. |
Continue to use tippy taps throughout the year |
Save up to 47 300 L of water per year by the whole schools adopting tippy taps to wash their hands |
Grade 1-7 |
Saving Water-Natural Resources-Grade 6 SS |
Elect monitors to ensure the tippy taps are used, they are filled up daily and nobody opens the taps |
Elect and Award 5 monitors |
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Monitors the Lions River using freshwater wash kit and Mini SASS Tool – . |
Do the Lions River mini SASS twice per year. Upload results |
Grade 7 |
World Water Day-20th May/ 5th World Environmental Day |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
One Planet |
Organization |
Fresh Water Watch – Grounth Truth |
Business |
Focus Area Details
Energy & Climate Action
Target 1: Goals
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. |
Plant a biodiversity garden to combat the biodiversity loss driven by climate change |
Plant 10% of the garden indigenous endemic plants |
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Biodiversity and eco-system services Grade 7 |
Enter the eco-system painting competition |
Win a pond eco-system |
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River eco-systems, food chain NS Grade 6 |
Use energy from the sun |
Continue to use our solar pots and take photos |
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Renewable energy Grade 7 NS: Envir Day Arbour day |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
One Planet |
Organization |
Love Howick |
Organization |
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