All GREEN Schools projects

All classrooms turn their lights off when they are not in the room. The Nature Kids Club, made signs to go next to all of the light switches using recycled paper. This encouraged the entire school to turn the lights out when they left their rooms. If it is not necessary for lights, turn them off. If it is not necessary for technology, turn it off!

We have set up a station with a bin to collect used batteries. Another bin for used printer cartridges. We advertised to the school community in our weekly newsletter and in the school newspaper.
We hope to add used cellphones to this station and have found an organisation which will give cash in exchange for old cell phones so we can fundraise at the same time!

As a result of a school wide waste audit a 3 bin composter was built on our school grounds. The entire school population now participates in composting and collection bins are in all classrooms and common areas. Twice weekly members of the Green Team brings the compost to the outdoor bins. Green Team members as well as other students stir the compost to aerate, monitor green to brown ratios...

One student chose to focus on the bat during a structured mammal inquiry. He taught the class that bats "see with their ears," and we consolidated learning about echolocation and a little bit about predator/prey relationships by playing the game Bat & Moth outside.

Our Grade 5 class did a school clean up where we picked up trash from around our school to promote sustainability!

The We Act Green Club helped three in needs/at risk animal species with the help of the WWF. After doing a bake sale during the Student Led Conference, students had enough money to adopt two Canadian animals, a caribou and a snowy owl, and a family of Giant Pandas as well. Protecting our wild life for future generations is very important for the students at École Gravelbourg School.

Grade 2 French immersion students have a hamster and a fish to take care in their classroom. Those little friends were a good help in Mrs. Fournier’s Science class when students learned about natural and human built habitat. After researching information on an animal, teams were asked to create the natural and human built habitat that animal. Really good work grade 2B!!

Grade 4/5 French immersion students have been practicing their patience in Mrs. Fister’s Art class. They have been creating arts from punch holes leftover from the school printers. Great inventive way to recycle something so small!