Together we build a greener and healthier planet and put food on people´s plates!

Students in the enrichment group Reduce, reuse recycle created a project to raise awareness of how much food we throw away unnecessarily when we eat school lunch. Not that the food is not good, but because we take too much on the plate.

Over four days, students were asked to weigh their leftovers. These were compiled by the enrichment group.

Miss. S. Celino's math class grade 7 worked with the figures and presented them in the form of descriptive statistics.

Winning  class was 8 V, not surprising given that two of the students are in enrichment group and probably contributed with their commitment to their classmates.

The class that won, each student received a cinema ticket (19 in this case). Other 5 classes that conducted the experiment all four days gets two tickets per class for those responsible for the measurements.

Now we hope that the new attitude towards food which is not prepared  and cooked only to be thrown away holds.

Thanks to the lunch ladies Karin Elias, Monica Hermansson and Wendy Sanjairag who always are positive to events in the school.

Wastebusters

Wastebusters for MYP

We do not want to nag,

we would rather like to

encourage to a better

awareness towards

how much food we

put on our plate.

In order to do so we would

like to run a competition

for a week.

To implement this,

we believe it will be easier

if the class sit together

just for this week during lunch.

Two represents from each class, one girl and one boy

will be responsible for the statistics.

We will have a scale in the lunch room and a bucket and a spatula for each class.

Those responsible will note the weight of the wasted food and divide it by the number that ate.

Put the statistics on paper and report to the Enrichment group ReduceReuseRecycle.

The class that generate the least thrown food is the winner of something nice that will be shared with the hole class.

We think it would be good to do this from Monday next week 30 of November.

If you have any question please let us know!

Mrs. Umerkajeff, Daniel M. & Axel Z. In grade 8 Enrichment with help from Niesa & Angelina in grade 8.

To Dijon or not

One might ask the question whether a trip can be considered safe or not at the moment. Foreign Ministry of Sweden advises not to stop travelling to France or Paris. 

The decision on wether the trip will be or not has not yet been decided. Meanwhile, the planning must go on, so at them moment the student and I are planning as if we are all going. That is all I can say at the moment.

Lesson plans for anyone to use 2014-2015

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Lesson plans 2014-2015

Trees Planted as a tribute to Erasmus+ Joy of learning

Christina Turner and Marie Umerkajeff was in Madrid 2 weeks ago and visited one of the schools participating in the environmental project supported by the EU Erasmus+, Reduce, reuse, recycle - joy of learning. They found that Sweden has come a long way when it comes to converting waste into energy. However the Spanish authorities were very proud of the actual visit.

Next stay will be with students in France and next year is the trip to Poland and the Czech republic. The school planted a tree for each country as a tribute to the educational work across borders.

Planning on a visit to Dijon France in December

We are invited to a school who are preparing a performance, a circus with recycling and other cycling in action for us to enjoy. Four students are coming along. They have been working in enrichment with the energy use for our school and compared it with the other schools. It looks good.

Now they have started to work on a project focusing on how much food we waste, and hopefully the result will be that we do not throw food away.

Madrid in October

We went to a waste industry where we were to tell the others of our routines in our own country - Seden was a role model, let me tell you...

Enrichment group in progress

So far the group for enrichment  have been very devoted and engaged. They have spoken to Mr. Jerry and Mr. Alan about the energy that the school are using and sent the information to Rumania, who will make a presentation out of it. 

They have been in contact with Mrs. Karin who supports their idea on having a contest on which class that is throwing away food the least by putting a scale in the lunch room and making certain people responsible for how to note the difference. The food company is also supporting this event. 

Today they will make posters in a positive way on how to think before taking to much food on the plate - and maybe have to throw it away. 

We need more students for our group!

Erasmus+ for Enrichment class 2015-2016

Reduce Reuse Recycle – joy of learning

SIS is part of a project that includes seven schools in Europe from north to south and from east to west Sweden, Poland, Rumania, Czech Republica, France, Spain and Turkey. The project is supported by Erasmus+. The theme of the project is the use of resources.  How we actually can reduce our 'throwaway' mentality! How we can open our eyes to the fact that we borrow from our next generation by making use of more than we give back of our natural environment. A bleak subject, it may seem. But it's never too late to give up - so why do it now? So what is likely for us involved to actually implement in everyday life of school - You are in charge owning your development through a creative project within enrichment. It is based on the desire to do. Wanting to change! and the feeling that it makes a difference! Some of the students in the enrichment group will go on a field trip to France in December and some might go to Turkey next year. I will be there to support your ideas and you will also be able to go on a field trip to either France or Turkey to share your ideas with students from the other schools. Below are the units of work you can chose to work with.

•       evaluate how you can reduce packaging waste in your home- golden rules;
•       biodiversity tour to know what biodiversity is and why it is important;
•       choose one species and prepare migration maps;
•       create ’green’ tour guides
•       plant a tree - a day against deforestation - small actions can make a big impact
•       forest day celebration or other themes for celebration
•       identify non-native or invasive species in your local environment, research and observe the effects of non-native species on native species
•       identify and research species and the natural history of a local hiking trail, park or natural area
•       project to make a school garden or adopt a park
•       organize an environmental day for others teens (series of workshops) to discuss local environmental issues
•       organize competition of poetry about project theme

Now the question is how many students feel they want to use their enrichment time for this purpose, I have to wait and see.