EcoKids Club Home Pages - Royal Vale Elementary School

This year our Home and School Beautification Committee is dedicated to making our school more green. Over 200 students participated in the schoolyard cleanup that we organized. In May we organized another cleanup in partnership with Eco-Quartier, a local recycling organization. Over 400 participants including students, parents, and teachers took part! We hope to establish a more efficient recycling program in our school, so we are inviting Eco-Quartier back to lead in-depth workshops on recycling with individual classes.

Name: Royal Vale Elementary School

City: Montréal

Province: Québec

Group size: 358

Age Range: Variable

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Students pick up trash around the school grounds.

We also had a school assembly to discuss the three Rs and to introduce our litterless lunch program. During three days, over 500 litterless lunches were made and brought to school by students! Participants were awarded the bronze, silver, and gold star depending on the number of waste-free lunches they brought. An honour list was placed in the front lobby acknowledging everyone´s efforts. To follow up, science teachers will be doing activities on waste and recycling in their classrooms.

We began to plant seeds and flowers to beautify the front of our school. Students, teachers, and parents participated in all of our schoolyard greening projects. We look forward to next year when Eco-Quartier will return to begin teaching us about composting.

Other projects we worked on this year include:

Eco-Warriors recycling team
Viewing An Inconvenient Truth
Earth Day activity workbook by Science teachers
Mini waste audit
Family gardening and pizza party
Ongoing school yard greening projects

Sondra Goldman

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