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Grade 3 boys with Sean Williams from Live Life Always
Grade 4 Brainstorming

Grade 3 boys building Recycled Robots Grade 5 Garden Construction

with the overarching question the Elephant, and a trash robot. They Overall, much enjoyment and
“What if everybody did that?” have so enjoyed exploring the school learning was had by both teachers
grounds and learning more about and boys. Everyone was made
The boys arrived to the provocation of a their personal responsibility in keeping aware of the startling amount
littered quad on Monday morning! They the environment and community of food that gets wasted!
did a very quick clean-up and a chalk clean, waste free, and green!
talk reflection, which involved some Grade 5 - sustainable Living
deep-level thinking. They made a class Grade 4 – Love Food, Hate and Urban Farming
book with the title ‘What if everybody Waste The Grade 5s focused on sustainable
did this?’ and each boy made both a The Grade 4 boys had a lot of fun living and urban farming. The aim
positive and negative page, for example and hands-on experience learning was for the boys to explore how to
what if everybody picked up litter about food waste. The theme, ‘Love set up a garden to grow vegetables
vs what if everybody littered? They Food, Hate Waste’ was explored for the community. They started the
researched using litter data-handling through a visit to the St Peter’s on- week with challenging postulations
on the school grounds where the boys campus compost depot, planting and about urban community farming in
cleaned up the school and tallied the growing from leftovers, checking out South Africa and exploring the best
different types of litter found. The food waste from our own dining hall choices of vegetables to plant. The
boys used this information to create and a little bit of dustbin diving! boys put their handiwork skills to
graphs and ask further questions. They the test and built planter boxes from
watched the movie, Wall-E, which Of course, no FLP would be complete pallet wood in which to plant their
focuses on the destruction of Earth without engaging discussions and seedlings. When asked, a few boys
and Sean Williams from Live Life Always debates. The boys loved planting said that the best part of the FLP was
came to present to the boys on the their own spring onions and working together as a team, building
clean ups that have been done in the creating their own left-over recipes the planter boxes and planting the
surrounding suburbs. The boys came to . . . parents look out, there are a few plants. In a time when food scarcity
realise the importance of protecting the master chefs in the making! and expense are very real problems for
environment and what a difference one many people, it has been encouraging
person can make. The FLP programme Mr Creamer took the boys on an to see the boys engage meaningfully
focused on reusing through Art Projects excursion to the potato farm and with this topic. The boys have learnt
using recyclable materials and the some of the boys have started to grow some skills to perhaps make a
boys made a worry monster, Elmer their own potato plants at home. difference in other communities.

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