green club

Assumption English School’s Green Club hopes to equip our members with the knowledge and skills relating to the current environmental issues. The club aims to provide members with opportunities to be involved in the environmental conservation programmes in our community and to educate our members about the importance of biodiversity and our roles in the environmental conservation effort through “Refuse, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle” initiatives. We also hope to energise our members about the environmental issues and efforts of sustainability so that they can be ambassadors for the greening cause.

In 2022, our members are back to experimenting with a variety of edible plants in our garden. Besides blue pea flowers and pandan leaves, we have grown vegetables such as kang kong and nai bai, as well as cultivating fruit-bearing plants such as papaya, soursop and lime. We also managed to grow oyster mushrooms and bell peppers this year. Our members are happy to be back in the garden to learn and grow a variety of edible plants.

We also embarked on a special project to help identify and label the plants grown at the Montfort Centre. We made several trips to the gardens at the Montfort Centre and were amazed by the variety of tropical plants and trees there. We hope to put up the labels on the trees and plants so that all who visit the gardens will be able to know and appreciate them as much as we do. Once we have completed the project with Montfort Centre, we hope to label the trees in our school compound as well and create a Biodiversity Trail so our fellow students can learn more about the various plants and how they impact us.

In other sessions, we did crafts using recycled materials. We created cute piggy banks from drink bottles and used recycled glass jars as containers for scented candles. We even collected spare yarns and strings to make pom-pom key chains. We have been busy with crafts during the rainy season and are constantly thinking of new products we can create from different recycled materials collected. We hope to be able to teach these crafts to other students next year and spread our message of conservation and sustainability.