The global annual Earth Day takes place on the 22nd of April as part of Earth Week, where people from all around the world collectively celebrate our planet, fostering an appreciation of the Earth’s environment and awareness of the issues that threaten it. These were the same focuses of our Earth Week here at Century Park Campus and the Student Council and the Eco Committee arranged a number of activities to promote the protection of our environment.
To address the serious environmental issue of single-use plastic polluting our oceans, activities this Earth week aimed to encourage other more innovative ways to reduce our plastic consumption, such as by up-cycling or giving our used plastic bottles a new purpose. Instead of throwing away single-use plastic bottles, students learned how to create a self-watering pot using their plastic bottles and planting magical beans that grew to reveal hidden messages.
In a more long-term initiative that started with Earth Week, every homeroom received seeds for their own homeroom plants that students needed to take care of together as a class. Each homeroom was able to grow a different type of plant, which was decided in a lucky draw. All of this took place in homeroom and was a fun activity to encourage responsibility and collaboration beyond Earth Week.
Finally, to finish a successful Earth Week, students participated in an Earth-themed free dress day, wearing either the colours green or blue, or clothes and costumes representing the Earth or environment in some way.