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Our ideas about how we can be a more eco-friendly school. These ideas are detailed below
under categories – BIG, MEDIUM and SMALL.
Big Ideas
Composting our waste
Earth Week/Day to promote awareness
Wind, solar or child-powered energy – maybe a child powered playground
Chemical/toxic audit of school
Energy audit of school – calculate our carbon footprint
Water audit of school
Build links with outside specialists, students at other schools; organise guest speakers; talks, workshops,
exchanges, action days
Build environmentally sensitive Year 7/8 classrooms – natural paints, flooring, locally sourced material and
furniture
Improve Saqqara Girls garden area
Set up climate zones within school grounds – rainforest, ice, desert, plastic bottle
greenhouse, etc
Medium ideas
Litter pick/clean up campaign outside the school or in local area.
Encouraging initiative for car sharing.
Issue and submission of homework via Fronter to save paper.
Garbage separation – send our wet waste to a good home
Development of more environmental themes in our curriculum
Eco Club book exchange
Eco Club toy exchange
Weather station linked to school website
Installing fans and encouraging their use rather than AC
Sensor driers for bathrooms
Power saving lights across school
“Take stock” classes make lists of what is thrown out in a day/week. Do a before and after
survey to evaluate success of eco initiatives
Elicit ideas from school council/Eco Club/other children
Make Eco-links with Cairo to Capetown who will share any best practice they see on their trip
Challenge BG about eco-school links in Egypt
Communicating our ideas to Site Support team
Small ideas
Signs to encourage turning off taps/computers/lights
Collect old phones “Phone Again” for recycling
Establishing an Eco Team notice board – visual high-profile display of our progress
School membership of eco organisations
Limit CD burning and encourage use of USB drives
Establish limits on printing, paper/card use and laminating
Solar calculators
Natural glue/paints in art room rather than solvent based
School eco-pens or recycled plastic pens
Wood free pencils – propelling pencils for staff
“Close the door” policy to keep energy in
More eco-initiatives with children to encourage eco-friendly behaviour, e.g. waste-free lunch, reusable drinks
containers, etc
Re-using backing paper/card from displays
Eco Monitors/Warriors in each class to ensure taps/lights/a.c./computers are not being left on unnecessarily
Recycling bins
Photocopier training to reduce waste and increase the number of documents that are double sided
Get tree donations or use money from recycling to plant more trees
Get recycling experts in school (APE)
Contact Jacqui Garib @ jgarib@mbisegypt.com
