Eco-Curriculars at Knox Academy

At Knox Academy, we value the environment in our local community and in the wider world. We feel that it is important for young people to engage with environmental issues, which have an impact on our present and undoubtedly on our future. For this reason, there are two environmental clubs at Knox Academy in which students can get involved: the Eco-Committee and the Green Team.

The Eco-Committee is a student and staff group which works to implement positive environmental changes within Knox Academy and the school community. The committee meets once a week on Tuesdays at lunch time in Miss Laudi's room (T1.2) to organise environmental initiatives like awareness campaigns, donation drives, and our ever popular Eco-Week.

The Green Team is Knox Academy's recycling club and we meet every Wednesday at lunch time in Miss Laudi's room (T1.2). We get together once a week to empty recycling from classrooms around the school and we work on other projects throughout the year too. We have an amazing group of students in S1-S4 who are already involved and we always welcome new members!

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For further information or if you would like to contribute to these groups, please contact Miss Laudi.

Environment News

ECO-TIP 8: SWITCH TO SOAP BARS
Published: Tue 27 Nov 2018

Have you ever thought about the amount of plastic involved in your daily routines? Consider the plastic bottles that your shampoo and conditioner are in, that bottle of shower gel or moisturizer. All of this adds up to a lot of plastic that could be avoided! Switching to solid shampoo, soap bars, and solid moisturizers can help reduce the amount of plastic packaging needed. They work just as well as (dare I say even better than!) liquid soaps, shampoos and conditioners and they last ages! Consider making this simple switch to cut down on plastic!

KNOX ECO-COMMITTEE DOES LITTER PICK WITH PEAR TREE NURSERY
Published: Wed 21 Nov 2018

On Monday 19th of November, the Eco-Committee here at Knox organised a litter pick with young kids from the nearby Pear Tree Nursery. The aim of this collaboration was to teach the nursery kids at a young age to be as eco-conscious as possible about the problem of litter. Also,  it showed us and the rest of the school community how much rubbish is left in the corridors after lunch break alone!

From an S4 perspective, it was great to see young people from the ages of 2 to 15 taking care of the environment around them. After the Eco-Committee presented to all year groups at Knox during assemblies about the problem of litter, we hope that this litter pick opens students’ eyes to a problem that is so avoidable.

     

This litter pick along with countless other eco projects that we have done, and will be doing *winky face*, has opened not only my eyes, but everyone's in the committee, to seeing the impact that a small group of students can have. Without this litter pick, 2 full black bags of waste would have been thrown into landfill so instead we recycled as much as we could and ended up with far less trash going to landfill, goal achieved!

So in conclusion, while it may seem like throwing one bottle into a recycling bin won’t make much difference, if we all had this mindset our world would become a much more enjoyable, trash-free place!

Written by: Adnan Ros, S4 Student, Eco-Committee

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