ECO COMMITTEE
The ECO committee has quickly developed into to a large body of students who have actively involved themselves in their surroundings. The student-led committee now consists of around 15 students from grade 5-10 who have shown great service and engagement in their schooldays. They promote sustainability and taking action towards a more eco-friendly focus for the school, its students, teachers and the focus of the curriculum. With great involvement from the entire ISB community both in taking action and financial support, involving all grades, teachers, the leadership team and the PTO, the ECO committee have been engaged in the following school-wide projects: Trash Warriors Every fortnight, one Upper School and one Lower School grade collaborate in clearing part of the school grounds of trash. By the end of the school year, all grades have participated in keeping our school and its surroundings free of waste! Cafeteria Recycling System, paper usage and composting Fully created and organised by the students, the school now has a system for recycling in the cafeteria, including a separate food waste bin which is taken to the organic compost bin each day by Grade 7 students. Printer usage and number of prints is reported to each teacher each month, and the ECO Committee and Leadership Team are campaigning to reduce this number as much as possible. Students and teachers are encouraged to utilise GOOS paper (Good On One Side) when possible, Trash Warriors: Students colleting trash in the area. both in writing notes, working with arts and crafts, and printing out new documents. Earth Day April 22nd took the whole school off their normal timetable into a whole day of sustainability activities planned and prepared by the ECO committee. Students from all grades mixed and collaborated in an awesome day filled with activities including creating planter beds, climate action artworks, a workshop on sustainability where students derived protein from eating insects and taking care of the school grounds with a proper spring cleanup. Equally, multiple planting projects were kickstarted in the school gardens, where grade 6 and 7 developed the prepared gardens into a haven for plants and insects. 22
