School Name
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Nobanda Primary School
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Rationale / Mission
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Our school is committed to sustain biodiversity at large and conserve our water resources and do awareness for the
community
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Vision
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We envision our school to maintain cleanliness of our school and mentor other schools and go green, and ensure
that our learners can share the knowledge acquired
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Initiatives
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Growing our vegetables to give the needy children in our school
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Existing School Focus Areas
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- Biodiversity Network
- 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 |
Futhi Shezi |
Enviro-Coordinator |
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Year One Focus Area
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Focus Area Details
Biodiversity Network
Target 1
We want to expand our indigenous garden and eradicate alien plants
We want to make an animal manure by making a chicken run (large enclosure)
Target 1: Goals
Goal Identified |
Action Identified |
Location/Area within School |
Implementation steps |
Resources needed |
Who is responsible? |
Deadline |
Install a chicken run in school to allow chickens to move freely |
make a chicken run allow chickens to nest, by doing so they will excrete and that will be used a source of nitrogen |
In the garden |
Make a pathway tp allow chickens to go through the garden |
Poles, nails, nets |
Enviro club leaders with the assistance from teachers |
December 2023 |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
Groundsman |
Individual |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
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School |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
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School |
Focus Area Details
Community & Social Responsibility
Target 1
We are teaching the community members to make their own vegetable garden
We need certain individuals from the community to learn about permaculture garden principles
Target 1: Goals
Goal Identified |
Action Identified |
Location/Area within School |
Implementation steps |
Resources needed |
Who is responsible? |
Deadline |
Expand awareness to our community members |
Exchange experience and use traditional methods |
Outside the community, or other center |
We need certain individuals from the community to learn about permaculture garden principles |
Vegetable Seedlings, human resources |
Environmental coordinator and iThemba Project |
August 2023 |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
iThemba Project |
Organization |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
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School |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
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School |
Focus Area Details
Health & Well-being
Target 1
We will organize nurses to come and check learners eyesight, vaccinations
We must eat eat from our vegetable garden
sell our excess harvest to the supplier and use that money to buy more seedlings
Target 1: Goals
Goal Identified |
Action Identified |
Location/Area within School |
Implementation steps |
Resources needed |
Who is responsible? |
Deadline |
Promote Permaculture garden |
Selling to the nutrition supplier. Eating from our garden |
In the school garden |
Expand our plot and use organic manure and not fertilizers |
vegetable seedlings, mulch |
Enviro club |
October 2023 |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
iThemba Project |
Organization |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
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School |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
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School |
Focus Area Details
Water & Sanitation
Target 1
We want to help them with hygiene and make more toilets
Rebuild bathrooms because we have many learners
Install tippy taps
Target 1: Goals
Goal Identified |
Action Identified |
Location/Area within School |
Implementation steps |
Resources needed |
Who is responsible? |
Deadline |
Install Tippy taps |
Install about 2 tippy taps stand due to the size of our learners |
Near the bathrooms |
identify an area that we will use to install our tippy taps, that will drip excess water into the garden |
2 litre bottles, poles, hammer, nails, and strings |
Class monitors, Enviro club will be responsible for tippy taps |
May 2023 |
Potential Partners
Name of partner |
Type of Partner |
One Planet |
Organization |
uMngeni Water |
Organization |
Potential Partners
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Type of Partner |
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School |
Potential Partners
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Type of Partner |
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School |
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Year Two Focus Area
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Potential Partners
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Type of Partner |
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School |
Potential Partners
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Type of Partner |
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School |
Potential Partners
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Type of Partner |
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School |
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Year Three Focus Area
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Potential Partners
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Type of Partner |
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School |
Potential Partners
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School |
Potential Partners
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School |
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