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School Name
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Selcourt Primary School
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Rationale / Mission
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We envision our school as an eco-friendly space that champions recycling, tracks daily weather patterns, grows its own food through a vibrant vegetable garden, and protects local biodiversity for a sustainable future.
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Vision
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We aim to protect our local environment and inspire learners to value biodiversity, explore nature, study life patterns, and understand global warming and climate change for a more sustainable future.
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Embedding Sustainability
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Please tell us what activities/environmental initiatives your school is currently implementing.
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Our Environmental Club plants vegetables, raises climate awareness through drama, cleans the school and Selcourt duck pond, runs recycling competitions, and visits the Marievale Bird Sanctuary to learn about biodiversity.
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Select / tick the Focus Areas your school is currently working on.
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- Biodiversity Network
- Community & Social Responsibility
- Production, Consumption & Waste
- Energy & Climate Action
- 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 |
| Dorothy White |
Sustainable Schools Coordinator |
| Louise Swanepoel |
Sustainable Schools 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 a vegetable garden |
Plant potatoes, carrots, beans, peas, beetroots and flowers – move the garden box to new venue where its part sunshine and part shade. Give harvest to eco-club learners and staff members who help with recycling program |
Grade 5 and 6, Grade 7 involved in certain activities |
Lesson on pollination, flower parts, different insects, monocotyledons and dicotyledons |
Potential Partners
| Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
| Department of Education |
Higher Education Institute |
Focus Area Details
Biodiversity Network
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. |
| Wetland Excursion |
Visit Marievale Bird Santuary and discuss biodiversity of life |
Grade 5 and 6, Grade 7 involved in certain activities |
What affects water, what can live on top of water, migration birds, effects of climate change and water pollution (wetlands) |
Potential Partners
| Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
| Marievale Bird Santuary |
Organization |
| City of Ekurhuleni |
Organization |
Focus Area Details
Community & Social Responsibility
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. |
| School Clean-up campaign |
Clean the school regularly and after athlletics and sports events of papers, etc, . Clean nearby duck pond |
Grade 5-7 learners |
The necessity of maintaining the environment, the causes and effects of pollution |
Potential Partners
| Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
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School |
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. |
| Recycling – collect bottles and paper for recycling |
Collect bottles and paper for recycling. Hold compeition for collecting tins and milk/juice cartons |
Grade 1 – 7 learners |
The necessity of recycling as a way to manage waste. Educate whole school in the uses of our recycling bins |
Potential Partners
| Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
| Triple S&L Recycling |
Organization |
| Primary Cooperative (Pty) Ltd |
Business |
| Petco |
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. |
| Climate Change awareness campaign |
Bring awareness on climate change by daily updates on the school announcement boards on events throughout the world on: hurrican, fires, floods etc. Have a drama presentation on climate change – to awaken learners to the threat of global warming and keep them informed and updated on events relating to climate change |
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Grade 2, 5, 6, 7 |
Potential Partners
| Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
| Fruit and Trees for Africa |
Organization |
Focus Area Details
Catchment to Coast
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. |
| Alien plant awareness campaign (water hyacinth) |
Bring awareness on water hyacinth effects to water life. Run water quality testing to compare water from a alien invasive plant clear wetland (Marievale) and alien invasive plant encroached wetland (Blesbokspruit) |
Grade 5,6,7 |
Grade 6 – types of water pollution, how water is processed from rivers to taps, and cleaning sewage water. Ecosystem: Water hyacinth destroys food chains, what life in water needs to thrive |
Potential Partners
| Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
| WaterCAN |
Organization |
| Marievale Bird Santuary |
Organization |
| Blesbokspruit Wetland |
Organization |
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