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The Toowoomba Grammar Junior Environment Club meets
on Monday afternoons (3.00 – 4.00pm) at TGS Junior
School in Room (not sure yet).
The aim of the club is to enable the children to direct
the school's environmental program. The club members
will look at existing processes and habits at the school
(for example electricity usage and waste management),
research more environmentally friendly alternatives,
approach the school and help implement the changes.
Although a parent and teacher will facilitate and guide
the meetings, the students do all the work. We hope
the children will learn about environmental issues,
implement change in the school and learn a great deal
of responsibility, project management and activism. |
Each term the club will focus on a particular environmental
issue. Term 2 2007, the club's first term, we will focus
on Waste & Recycling.
In future terms, the topics will include water, gardening
and worm farms as examples.
Each meeting will be broken up into 3 sections - Learn,
Play and Act.
- Learn - Members will learn about
an aspect of the issue. (e.g. discuss where trees
are sourced for paper production (plantations vs old-growth
forests)).
- Play - Members will participate
in a fun activity associated with the issue including
games, art, gardening and cooking.
- Act - Over the term, members will
have one or two major goals and each week members
will work towards achieving these goals. Goals will
be discussed and defined at the start of each term.
As an example, as Term 2 is focusing on waste and
recycling, our goals may be to implement recycling/reuse
bins at the school and to change to use recycled toilet
paper. Tasks will include audits, research, approaching
the school, reports and implementation.
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