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Production, Consumption & Waste

Reduce waste within our school community by 50%

Goal Identified	Action Identified	Location/Area within School	Implementation steps	Resources needed	Who is responsible?	Deadline
Recycle	Recycle White paper	Senior Quad	Each class has a recycling bin. The class separates the white paper from the contaminated paper. The Eco Club collects paper every two weeks and checks if the paper is correctly separated before putting it into the Mpact bags. This process is an on going activity.	Mpact recycling bags	Entire school and Eco club.	Continuous
Recycling	Collecting bread tags and bottle tops	Ms Minnaar’s class	Newsletters goes out to learners. Learners collect and bring them to Ms Minnaar’s class. At the end of the term, the eco-club drops it at an organization called breadtagsforwheelchairs in Kirstenhof.	Containers for storage.	Entire school and breadtagsforwheelchairs	Continuous
Waste disposal	Disposing household batteries	Designated area where learners are unable to tamper with the batteries	Newsletter goes out to the entire school. Learners collect the batteries and bring it too school. Once a term we have a battery drive whereby the class that brings in the most, wins a free civvies. Once a term the batteries get dropped off at Steenberg Woolworths whereby the batteries are disposed in an environmentally friendly way.	Containers for storage.	Entire school and Steenberg Woolworths.	Continuous
Reducing the amount of white paper	Reducing the amount of white paper used at school	School	The entire school should manage the amount of paper used, this includes copies made or printed documents. All staff personal should check before printing to eliminate mistakes. Use the recycling paper for drawings and poster making.	N/A	The entire school community including non teaching staff.	Continuous
Recycling	Recycling of all plastics.	School and community	Each family or learner will receive a recycling bag, which they will collect plastics at home or within the community. Their names will be written on the bag to track which learner brings in the most waste. This will also help with incentives. Once all the bags are brought back to school, collection from CRDS.	Recycling bags	All learners will participate in this project.	Continuous
Compost	Recycle the fruit and vegetable peels.	Garden at St Owens	Get all the learners to recycle their fruit and vegetable peels, bring from home as well and add it too our compost bins.	Waste material from fruits and vegetables	All the learners	Continuous
Waste Removal/ Recycling	Collect plastic around the school	All areas of the school.	Mr Philander has drawn up a litter roster, each class will take turns in collecting either waste or plastic from the playground. waste will go into the bin and plastic will be recycled by CDRS, this will keep our school clean as well as generating an income for our school and all the learners will be participating.	CDRS recycling	All learners and staff	Continuous

Name of partner	Type of Partner
MPACT	Organization
Woolworths- Steenberg Village	Business
breadtagsforwheelchairs	Organization
CRDS SA (Pty) Ltd	Organization

Start planting indigenous plants at school – increase by 35%

Goal Identified	Action Identified	Location/Area within School	Implementation steps	Resources needed	Who is responsible?	Deadline
Planting	Planting indigenous plants	All around the school	Contact Stodels regarding indigenous plants. With the funds received via donations, use the funds to purchase the plants and soil. Ask the tyre shop for a donation of used tyres which will be used as pot plants.	Indigenous Plants	Ms Minnaar and Mrs Hendricks	Continuous

Name of partner	Type of Partner
Stodals	Business
Tyre and repair shop	Business
Mark’s Paint and hardware	Business

Expose learners and the school community with outreach programmes, in school lessons and connecting to nature by at least one event per term.

Goal Identified	Action Identified	Location/Area within School	Implementation steps	Resources needed	Who is responsible?	Deadline
In- school lessons	Each grade has a session with Nature connect once a term.	School Hall	Each grade head, suggests a particular topic for term, Ms Minnaar books the lessons and each grade attends their in school lesson with Nature Connect		Ms Minnaar, grade heads and Nature Connect	Quarterly
Outreach programme	Toiletry Drive for DP Marias – TB Hospital	Ms Minnaar’s class	Newsletter goes out to the school community. Learners bring toiletry donations that will be donated to the TB hospital. This outreach program will take place in term 2.	Containers and toiletries	DP Marias hospital, entire school and the RE Committee	End of term 1
Outreach programme	Non Perishable Goods drive for the SVP society at our schools parish.	Ms Minnaars Class	Newsletter goes out to the school community. Learners donate non perishable goods for the Saint Vincent de Paul society that helps those are less fortunate.	Containers and non perishable goods	SVP, entire school and the RE Committee	End of term 2
Outreach Programme	Leave your print	Entire school community	Newsletter goes out to school community. Learners wear slipper (flip flops) and donate R10. The money raised goes to the Catholic schools office whereby the money goes to the schools who are less fortunate than ours.		Catholic school office, RE committee, and the entire school	End of term 3
Outreach Programme	Bags of Love	Entire school community	Newsletter goes out to the school community. Learners donate R10. The money collected will be spent on non perishable goods that will be bagged and given to one family per class.		Entire school and RE Committee	End of term 4
Ocean Guardian Programme	I am Water	St James and Windmill beach	Learners go on a two day holiday programme spent on the beach where they learn about the environment, ecosystems and basic snorkeling.	Resources are provided by organisation	Ms Minnaar, I am water organization.	Term 1
River Guardian Programme	I am Water	Liesbeek River	Grade 7 learners attend a winter river guardian programme.		Ms Minnaar, I am Water, Grade 7’s and their educator.	Term 3
Outreach Program	Holy Childhood Mass	Our Lady Help of Christians.	Grade 7’s will be attending Holy Mass for the Holy Childhood. The entire school will donate a small contribution towards helping other children in need. These funds will go to schools who are less fortunate.		Ms Minnaar, Grade 7’s, Educators and the entire school	Term 3
Sanitary Drive	A group of educators will give a presentation to the young girls at school on hygiene and the use of sanitary towels.	The school hall	Ms Minnaar has requested donations from a corporate company. The company and The Ackerman Family Foundation provided the school with sanitary towels, the educators used this as an opportunity to address the young girls at school regarding hygiene and the use of sanitary towels.	Sanitary Towels	Ms Minnaar, Mrs Davids, Ms Basson and the young girls at school	Term 2
Recycling Programme for Global Recycling day	Recycling awareness – Activation with CDRS as partner	School Quad	Ms Minnaar ask Ashley from CDRS to come to school to do a presentation on recycling plastics, he agreed, and said this would be a perfect opportunity for our activation to the school. All learners will participate in the presentation	CDRS Members for presentation	Ms Minnaar and Ashley from CDRS	Term 1

Name of partner	Type of Partner
Nature Connect	Organization
I am Water	Organization
Makro	Business
Catholic Schools Office	Organization
Saint Vincent de Paul Society	Our Lady of Perpetual help – Retreat
DP Marais Hospital	TB Hospital – Retreat
RNB Forex exchange unit & The Ackerman Family Foundation	Donating Sanitary Towels so that we can do a “Girls talk”.

Biodiversity Network

Start a vegetable garden to assist the feeding scheme – start by a 30%

Goal Identified	Action Identified	Location/Area within School	Implementation steps	Resources needed	Who is responsible?	Deadline
Identify ground to start our school garden	Garden Audit	The Garden at St Owens	Liase with Nature Connect on getting a garden audit, then after the results start with implementing a school garden.	Organisation to do the garden audit		Term 2 & 3
Identify what will grow best in the type of soil that we have	Use the garden audit to help	The garden at St Owens	Seed Community	Report on Garden Audit	Ms Minnaar and Mrs Hendricks	Term 2 & 3
Plant vegatables in tyres	Use the garden audit and the people to assist us with identifying what would work best in the tyres	At St Owens, closest to the kitchen	Use the gift voucher from Seed Community to plant vegatables in the tyres.	seeds, soil and tyres	Every one at school	Term 2 & 3

Name of partner	Type of Partner
Seed Community	Organization
Arrow Tyres	Business
Stodels	Business
Nutri Humus	Business

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