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, both in writing notes, working with arts and crafts, and printing out new documents.

Trash Warriors: Students colleting trash in the area.

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.

Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) - Green Flag Status

To sum up the year, written reports of the work of the ECO Committee, together with evidence of how the sustainability focus is part of the taught curriculum, ISB is sending a final application for Green Flag status to the FEE for evaluation. Hopefully we will have it as part of the hall of nations by the start of next school year! The ECO Committee will continue to focus on sustainability for next year and has multiple new projects planned. These include a community garden, adopting a local area for cleanup, collaborating with companies in the area on biodiversity projects and expanding the sustainability focus further in the school curriculum.

Eco Committe: Student representatives from grades 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 in addition to staff representatives and the school director.