RICHMOND VALE ACADEMY
The Climate Compliance Conference N O V E M B E R - D E C E M B E R
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10 Years for GAIA INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Public Awareness and Environmental Actions
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Trash Pick-Up Competition
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Teaching in North Leeward Schools
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The Greenhouse Effect
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Global Warming and Cli-
are being exploited and
It is a ten years’ program
mate Change is running
stretched to their limits,
from 2011 to 2021 with the
its course with catastro-
species are disappearing at
goal to make St. Vincent
phic consequences for the
a rate never before seen in
climate compliant. Climate
future of humankind and
modern history; hunger,
Compliancy means energy,
our planet. It is triggered
starvation
food and disaster security.
by man’s burning of fos-
strike down.
sil fuels and the resulting
This is why the Climate
release
Compliance
of
greenhouse
and
diseases
Conference
gasses into the atmos-
has been established at
phere. Natural resources
Richmond Vale Academy.
Organic Gardening 3 and SelfSustainability Nutrition and Healthy Living
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The International GAIA Team
Selwyn is teaching about medical plants
Students from all over
of St. Vincent, the small
Effect.
the world are joining the
group of students try to
started to teach in the
GAIA - program; they
make a change in the coun-
schools in North Leeward
study and research how
try. One important aspect of
from November 2012. To
we best can protect St.
making St. Vincent climate
reach a wider range of
Vincent against
Global
compliant is to teach the
students, we do not only
Warming and Climate
island’s citizens the aware-
teach in primary, but also
Change. United with the
ness about Climate Change
in secondary schools.
communities
and the Greenhouse
This is why we
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Public Awareness and Environment Actions The
Climate
pollution from trash in
the
Compliance
eight North Leeward
Young and old re-
Conference
at
Village Primary and
ceive lessons about
Richmond Vale
Secondary Schools in
how to protect the
Academy started
the period from 1st of
environment,
to teach about
November 2012 till 1st
to do recycling and
the environment
of March 2013. We
learn about how we
with a focus on
are arranging 5 events
can adapt to the
recycling
or lessons in every of
challenges
and
r e d u c i n g
8
villages.
how
of
Global Warming .
Trash Pick-Up Competition "Becoming climate compliant demands getting the head out of the sand pile.”
The teachings will
competition is the
participants need to
lead to a trash pick-
team which can pick
use their creativity
up
up the most trash and
and
called “The World’s
make
have the best final
Cleanest
Country
creative result out of
product.
Competition” with
it. The final result is
winners will receive
prices to the best
related with the idea
support for musical
trash collectors. The
of
or sport equipments.
winner
Recycle”,
competition
of
the
the
most
“Reduce-Reuseso
efficiency
to The
the
Teaching in North Leeward schools The main topics of
Nutrition
the lessons are:
Healthy Living; Re-
Global
Warming
duce-Reuse-Recycle;
Climate
The treasure called
and Change; ganic
Or-
and
WATER
Gardening
and Self SustainWorld Costal Clean Up Day THE
CLIMATE
ability;
COMPLIAN CE
CONFERENCE
Teaching in West-Wood Methodist School Coulls Hill
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The Greenhouse Effect “We split up the stu-
to find out what we
dents into teams and
can do to stop global
gave a poster with a
warming.
certain task to each of
showed them the two
them. Group one was
videos again and gave
asked to make a poster about the
causes
of
greenhouse effect. The second group was sup-
Then
we
them time to make a flow chart, draw or explain their gained knowledge in whatever way they preferred.”
posed to explain its ef-
Interactive games with the students In Chateaubelair Government School
fect on our planet and
Kata & Bruno
Organic Gardening and Self-Sustainability “We explained what organic
compost. The session was
gardening means, and what
really practical, the students
are the differences between
could actually learn how to
conventional
organic
plant by doing it. Each of them
garden. Later we all went
made some seedlings which
outside, so we could show
they could bring home and
practically how to make
replant in their own garden.”
and
seedlings and explain how Kristiana & Angele
exactly plant grows. Also we taught them about impor-
Students learning some practical skills about organic farming in Troumaca Secondary School
tance of healthy soil and
Nutrition and Healthy Living “We put up a poster which
to a discussion of what effects
had the food pyramid on it,
a bad nutrition can have on
explained the characteristics
your body, including diseases
of each nutritious group and
like diabetes and hyperten-
which kinds of food contain
sion. We also explained the
these nutrients. The students
connection of eating and ex-
already had some informa-
ercising.”
tion concerning the videos and group tasks. This led us
Karolina & Michelle
The GAIA Team is using different kind of teaching methods - Poster of the Food Pyramid -
Now it is our task, as the earth’s citizens, to find a way out of the vicious circle of climate change. We have to
Richmond Vale Academy
stop and re-think our actions and see what we can do to
Chateaubelair Post Office
prevent for example the warming of the oceans or the
St.Vincent & The Grenadines
destruction of ecosystems.
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