IT'S RECYCLING TIME AGAIN

19th FEBRUARY 2014 ~ It was the time for the school community to recycle in conjunctions with this year's Environment Month. Today was the form two students' turn while the form one and remove students had brought their old newspapers, books, magazines, boxes etc. the day before. This was actually an inter-class competition. The winner i.e. the class that managed to collect the heaviest materials to be sold will be given cash money for the upcoming class party (that is always carried out for Teacher's Day). I have not got the exact figure of how much recyclable paper had been sold but the money collected was more than RM800. Congratulations to all the students who had taken part in this annual activity. I hope that they also practice recycling at other time too.

Let's together save mother earth. Reduce, reuse, recycle.

RECYCLING CAMPAIGN IN SCHOOL - DAY 2

You can bring a horse to a well, 

but you cannot force it to drink. 

As planned, the form two students were asked to bring old newspapers and other paper-based materials that could be recycled today. They had to put what they had taken from home at Balai Bestari according to their own classes so that we could see which class had the heaviest paper collection.

Sometimes we could not expect too much from the students. Even after I had gone around the form two classes reminding them to participate and contribute - some just didn't care despite the fact that this was one activity that they had to do to achieve a band 5 for their School Based Assessment for subjects like Geography and Civic.

We are still lucky as there are still other students who are more obedient and have displayed positive attitude. Although this programme might not look that important, it was actually one way how we could evaluate students in school.

getting used paper from the staff room

the arrival of the recycling lorry

the weighing process

the happy recycling uncles

I am happy to announce that after two days of the campaign, the afternoon session students had collected and sold 2600 kilogrammes of old newspapers. Puan Huan had not yet calculated the exact weight of other paper-based materials sold but the money that we collected from the sale (for both the old newspapers and other types of paper) was RM906. Just imagine the amount of cash we simply throw away everyday. 

The winner of the Recycling Campaign will be announced in the assembly next week and cash money will be presented to the lucky form teachers (to be used for their class parties).

Congratulations to all the afternoon session students (and teachers) who had done their part in making this campaign a success. Please remember to always reduce, reuse and recycle, and save our Mother earth.

RECYCLING CAMPAIGN IN SCHOOL - DAY 1

Today was recycling day in conjunction with the school's Environment Month. This activity was done as an inter-class competition in which the winner will be given CASH which could be used for their class party later (most probably for Teacher's Day). At the same time, this is one activity for Band 5 that will be taken into account for their Geography and Civic subjects' School Based Assessment (or known as PBS).

While some students were excited to contribute, some just did not care. With the present number of students that we have in school, the collection of old newspaper, books, magazines, boxes and used paper should be more than what we had today.

As for today, the teacher in-charge had only added the weight of the old newspapers accumulated from all the remove and form one classes and we managed to collect about 1300 kilogrammes. We had to separate the old newspapers from other materials as the price was not the same. 

the recycling lorry is here

We will see the response from the form two students tomorrow.

MY 200th POSTING - RUBBISH, RUBBISH ALL AROUND

The madness of collecting and bringing used paper, boxes, newspapers, books, anything made of paper - you named it, you got it, continued right until the fourth day. I never expected the respond to be this huge. A few classes had been bringing the materials for four consecutive days.

The main reason for their enthusiasm is because of the prize money that has been promised. There were also parents who came to school with carloads of paper. They must be proud of their kids for making their homes cleaner and rubbish free, for this week and a few more weeks to come.

With Mr. Tan, from AISIEC UTM, who had been a big help

the weighing process

Even the old paper collectors had to come on Friday because he could not put everything in his small lorry just in one day. So, the long wait had finally come to its end. We had actually managed to sell a big sum of RM1459. And just imagine that much money that we throw away almost every day.The winners of the recycling campaign this season are as follows:

2KP2 - 1115 kg
2KP1 - 1032 kg
2EK1 - 564 kg

Congratulations to the winners and we are thinking of organizing the same competition for the second term. And thank you for people who have been contributing to the campaign, and we hope that people can be more aware of recycling and saving planet earth. WORLD PEACE!