Our school: how ecological it is? Presentation by: Ola Gawryluk Bartek Kubuj Monika Olejnik Ania Ostoja-ChrzÄ…stowska Agata Paluch Marysia Zalewska
Table of contents: • • • • • •
Our school Water Waste and recycling Energy: electricity and air conditioning Noise and emission Conclusions
Our school
Our school • The name of our school is Secondary School STO 333. • Motto: ‘Awareness, Respect and Creativity’ • We care about education, development and openness to the world. We cooperate with the famous Polish radio station (Radio Trójka).
Our school • Teaching quality is on a high level. • Our former pupils passed their graduating tests so well that it placed us on a third position in ranking of the best school this year in Warsaw.
Water
What did we find out? • 48,58 m3 of water is used in a month… • Water consumption is higher in the first term, because we need it to heat the school.
What did we find out? • There are no green-zones in our school. • There is a special dishwasher in our school. It uses steam instead of water. It’s used over 20 times a day!
• We don’t have any washing machines and we don’t have showers.
What did we find out? • In our school there are leaking taps because children forget to turn them off.
• In our school there was no campaign promoting water saving, but we are planning it.
Waste and recycling
What did we find out? There are many kinds of waste produced in the school: • organic waste from the canteen • paper, plastic, cans etc. from the classrooms. • chemical substances needed for the chemistry lessons • medicines, which are kept by the school nurse.
What did we find out?
What did we find out? • We keep waste in the containers that are behind our school building. There’s a special one for organic waste from the canteen.
What did we find out? • In the corridor, there’s a special box, where we can get rid of old batteries.
What did we find out? • ‘Normal’ waste is taken by the dustcart. • Dangerous chemical substances are removed by the other company, which is qualified for that.
What did we find out? How is the food (breakfast, lunch) that students bring to school packed? 1%
9%
alluminium paper bags 36% plas c film
24%
lunchbox they don't bring food at all 30%
What did we find out? • We use toners for the copier, which can be regenerated. They are being re-filled with ink after they get empty. But… • We use tones of ‘normal’, not recycable paper. • There’s no garbage collection in our school
What did we find out? • We pick up litter from the streets and forests around our school in september („Clean up the world”) • There are posters on the school’s halls.
What did we find out? • Near our district’s town hall, there’s a place where we can bring our broken TVs and AGD and some special companies take care of them.
Energy: electricity and air conditioning
What did we find out? • Electricity consumption in whole school year: 34242 kWh. • It’s higher in the first term when sun goes down earlier. • In our school, there are no classrooms with good natural illumination and in all of them lights are on, even durring the breaks or after the lessons.
What did we find out? • In our school we use fluorescent lamps Like these:
• We use idependent switches for different lamps in most of the classrooms.
What did we find out? • Unfortunately, there are no elevators in our school. The building is not very high. • We don’t use solar energy. • Air conditioning is used only in the IT room.
What did we find out? Is the temperature in our school adequate? Is it too hot in the school in summer? no
yes
42%
58%
What did we find out? Is the temperature in our school adequate? Is it warm in our school in winter? yes
no
39%
61%
What did we find out? Is the temperature in our school adequate? Do you think that the temerature in our school is satisfying? yes
no
37%
63%
What did we find out? How are students dressed in school? Do they wear suitable clothes for each part of a year?
What did we find out?
DoDo youyou have to take off parts of in your (Question have to to wear thewarm warm teachers) clothes outfit in winter, because it’s too hot in the Do you think summer, that because pupils dressed too cold properly in in How are you dressed in are classroom during spring How are you dressed init’s classroom during classroom? theand classroom? classroom? summer? autumn and winter? yes yes yes lightclothes clothes light
no no no warmclothes clothes warm
0% 3% 15%
34% 37%
63% 66% 85% 100%97%
What did we find out? CONCLUSION: •Fortunatly students say that thay are dressed propertly for each season. •Teachers also believe that’s true. BUT… •We decieded to check the temperature in our school anyway. That’s why we borrowed professional thermovision camera
Musical clasroom
Chemical lab
IT classroom
Gym
The coldest place in our school
1st grade of secondary school
Outside the school
What did we find out? • Unfortunately…there are more cold places in our school than we expected. • This actually means that the insullation sysytem doesn’t work properly. BUT… • We did some temperature measurements and the average was 22°C…
Noise and emission
What did we find out? • It can be relly loud during the breaks, because the students ( usually in the secondary school) listen to music from the computers. • We’ve checked how loud is in our school during breaks and lessons. The noisiest are children in the youngest grades ( 0,1,2,3) We can also hear children shouting at lessons (on the tests as well…)
What did we find out? aisles
Noise in the aisles(break time)
JH 68 dba IV-VI 79 dba I-III 89-96 dba Break time
Ig 75 dba IIg
IIIg
70 dba 74 dba
Lesson time
53 dba 61 dba 59 dba
What did we find out? How loud? 10 dB 45 dB 75 dB 90 dB 170 dB
What? Breath, whisper Conversation Modern car School Break Space rocket
What did we find out? • The noises coming from the machinery are quiet. 47dba – on the other side of the doors. • Noises from the music classroom and the cafeteria are not disturbing. We can hardly hear anything when we’re sitting in the classroom. • We can’t hear noises coming from outside (no traffic there) when the windows are closed.
What did we find out? • The majority of students use cars to get to school. A little bit less uses buses. Some people walk to school or ride a bike. • We don’t have a school bus. When we have to go somewhere, the school rents a bus.
What did we find out? • There are no campaigns promoting quiet breaks. • There were no posters showing the danger of emission.
• We are thinking about changing that!
OUR CONCLUSIONS What we’ve already done…
Our research • To make this presentation, we’ve been working for almost two months…
The big meeting We have presented the results of our research to our principals. WHAT DID WE DECIDE TO DO SOON: To recycle in our school. That’s why we bought an additional rubbish bin to every classroom. To promote light and water saving. To organise a „quiet break”.
The big meeting • We have decided to show our presentations in front of all the students and teachers. • We gathered in the auditorium to tell everybody what we had found out.
The meeting
Presentations
Thank you for your attention!