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School Name
  Selcourt Primary School
Rationale / Mission
  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.
Vision
  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.
Embedding Sustainability
 

  • Yes

Please tell us what activities/environmental initiatives your school is currently implementing.
  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.
Select / tick the Focus Areas your school is currently working on.
 

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

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 Sustainable Schools Coordinator
Louise Swanepoel Sustainable Schools Committee

Focus Area
 

Focus Area
Focus Area Details
Health & Well-being
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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
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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
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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
School
Focus Area Details
Production, Consumption & Waste
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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
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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 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
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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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