by Miss Jean Tan
Recently, our Sec 3 – 5 students have embarked on ‘green’ projects to save the earth a little at a time. All classes chose, from a list of activities, to clear our beaches and parks of litter – and many of them came back thinking more deeply about environmental issues.
Students returned from their projects, feeling proud of what they’ve done and excited that they’ve made new friends along the way. Many proudly posted their pictures up on the Facebook ‘ESSS Environmental Education’ group page, boasting subtly of the memories, friendships and environmental awareness they have acquired in eCIP.
However, some students professed that if given another opportunity, they would embark on other projects instead, such as the collecting of newspapers. “It will be more meaningful as the beach is already very clean,” commented Tan Jia Wei, also from 3E5.
Here at East Spring Secondary, ‘going green’ has become a part of our curriculum as students are involved in an array of environment-related activities in the school. Classes are tasked to ‘adopt’ a plant, Environment Ambassadors play card games to learn more about the earth and preserving it, and correction tapes are collected regularly as part of our recycling efforts. Environment-related CIP (eCIP) is only one of the many ‘green’ initiatives promoted by and in the school.
At the rate which the earth’s resources are being depleted and environmental mishaps are occurring – oil spills from the Pacific to our nearby shores of Changi, for example – the future of Gaia seems bleak. If we shrug an indifferent shoulder to what is happening now, who’s going to clean up our mess in future?
Green is the new Black. Kudos to all Sec 3 – 5 students who have made tremendous effort and achievement in their eCIP projects. Let’s continue to keep the green going!
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