Dear Parents and Families,
We are looking forward to another super Sustainability Week at DBIS, starting on Monday 29th of November! With the UN’s Sustainable Global Development Goal ‘Life on Land’ a key focus for us this year, we will be encouraging our children to nurture nature and love our precious planet. As this year’s Sustainability Week falls in the penultimate week before the holidays, we are also hoping to encourage sustainable, eco-friendly celebrations this holiday season.
There are some exciting events in Primary to look forward to, including nature workshops led by the brilliant Tania Reinert. Students across Primary will really benefit from her expertise and enthusiasm. The 50-minute sessions will involve getting up close and personal with nature in the Forest Area and around the school campus. Primary students will also be very busy all week crafting eco-friendly cards, wrapping paper and gifts.
During Sustainability Week, Primary children will once again be given the opportunity to make tote bags from old t-shirts. This was very popular last year and was actually a request from the Primary Eco-team! Your child’s class teacher will share with you which day of the week they will be making the bags. In the meantime, please have a rummage around at home to see if you have any old t-shirts which could be given another life as a tote bag.
And finally… we were hoping to reinstate the Walking School Bus this Sustainability Week, but due to current restrictions, we will (hopefully) move this to another time in the academic year. However, we would still really love to encourage all children and families to walk or take public transport to school that week (and every week)! To help spread the word, we have set up a Padlet (linked here) for all children to post pictures of any natural treasures they find along their way to school. This could be a really interestingly shaped leaf, a super tall tree, an animal or an insect they encounter along the way… the possibilities are endless!
Thank you so much for your continued support; it’s going to be a fantastic week!
With best wishes,
Miss Fairweather and Mr Haines