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School Name
  Selcourt Primary School
Rationale / Mission
  We envision taking a more holistic approach to Education for Sustainable Development by cultivating sustainable development practices in ways whereby the learners are made more aware of the importance of the environment.
Vision
  We want to be a more sustainable school because the need to protect and sustain the environment is becoming more of a priority now that global warming is having such an impact on our ecosystem
Initiatives
  Our current initiatives are: motivating the recycling programe, planting vegetables, exploring ecosystems, using the learner's creative talent to make peers aware of global warming and campaigning to save water.
Existing School Focus Areas
 

  • Biodiversity Network
  • Community & Social Responsibility
  • Production, Consumption & Waste
  • Energy & Climate Action

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
Dorothy White Eco Club Co-ordinator
Louise Swanepoel Weather Station

Year One Focus Area
 

Focus Area Details
Production, Consumption & Waste
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Target 1
To establish a vegetable garden within the school to produce food. Learners will learn a lot about soil types, parts of plants, environmental friendly pest repellants, responsibility and the concept that success comes from hard work.
Target 1: Goals
Goal Identified Action Identified Location/Area within School Implementation steps Resources needed Who is responsible? Deadline
Planting vegetables and learning how to maintain the garden planting vegetables Next to the workshop Preparing soil in containers, planting and harvesting Containers, soil, seeds, tools Mrs White end of 2025
Potential Partners
Name of partner Type of Partner
Possibly Homestead Farm for advice and/or soils Farm and Nursery
Target 2 (Optional)
Recycling waste: working with Triple S and L to provide bins for plastic containers, cardboard containers, paper, tins. They will collect waste regularly and recycle it. Plastic bottle tops will be given to the Selcourt methodist Church to sponsor wheel chair donations.
Target 2: Goals
Goal Identified Action Identified Location/Area within School Implementation steps Resources needed Who is responsible? Deadline
Keeping the environment clean and helping sponsor wheel chairs Collection of recyclable waste Bins placed all over school grounds Introductory talk on environmental clean up then allocation of bins Various coloured bins for different categories of waste Mrs White end 2025
Potential Partners
Name of partner Type of Partner
Triple s and L Local recycling company
Selcourt Methodist Church collects bottle tops for wheelchair sponsors
Target 3 (Optional)
Making learners aware of the impact of global warming on the earth by informing them of latest disasters that can be liked to climate change. a board will be mounted with a world map. String will be attached to a pin and then the area affected. how climate change affected this disaster will also be shown
Target 3: Goals
Goal Identified Action Identified Location/Area within School Implementation steps Resources needed Who is responsible? Deadline
Constant updates on Global Warming board with maps showing disasters on the wall in the corridor mount board and pin the latest disasters on maps Board, maps, string, information on each disaster Mrs White End 2025
Potential Partners
Name of partner Type of Partner
Internet and BBC news News outlets

Year Two Focus Area
 

Focus Area Details
Energy & Climate Action
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Target 1
Manning a weather station, daily recording temperatures, rainfall amount, cloud cover, wind direction. We will be monitoring the weather patterns as they happen in Springs. This is the third year that this operation has been monitored. We can now compare records of the past 3 years.
Target 1: Goals
Goal Identified Action Identified Location/Area within School Implementation steps Resources needed Who is responsible? Deadline
Monitor weather patterns and any changes Weather board with records of daily readings Outside Mrs Swanepoel’s classroom Continue to take daily readings and record them Weather board and file of readings over past 3 years Mrs Swanepoel Continuous
Potential Partners
Name of partner Type of Partner
Grade 5 learners learners from the school
Target 2 (Optional)
Target 2: Goals
Potential Partners
Target 3 (Optional)
Target 3: Goals
Potential Partners

Year Three Focus Area
 

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