National Youth EnviroOlympics Challenge 2010

National Youth EnviroOlympics Challenge 2010’s En-mazing Race held on 5 June.

The following pupils of Sec 5N1 participated in the event and were given Certificates of Participation.

Jerrold Seet
Derrick Goh Shao Yu
Sivenes
Chan Jun Hua
Jason Lee

Networking Session at Raffles One Earth Club

Attiqah, Dinah Qistina, Phyo Mae and Jennifer Koh at Raffles One Earth Club Networking Session on 29 May.

Dinah and her team mates during the break-out session.

Attiqah and her teams brainstorming for solutions to a given problem.

May presenting her team's action plan.

Jennifer in her interest-based group.

Environment Champions (EC) Networking Session

Ms Jhumki and fellow pupils, Phyo May, Dinah Qistinah, Attiqah and Jennifer Koh.

Environmental Champions Networking Session organised by Raffles One Earth Club and the National Environment Agency on Saturday 29 May.

Phyo May sharing our Green Club activities and programmes.

Pupils break up into groups for ice-breaker games and interest-based group discussions.

Phyo May sharing our Green Club's best practices and ideas at EC Networking Session at Raffles Junior College.

Hiking at Bukit Timah Nature Reserves - My Thoughts and Feelings

My Thoughts and Feelings - by Brenden Andrews Hendricks of Sec 1A.

I was really excited to go the hike as I really loved hiking. During the bus ride, I was so excited I had to sing a little song to calm myself. As I saw the place where we were going to hike, I was shocked to see factories near the hill. I was really annoyed by the fact that people are building such things around the nature park! I feel that the smoke they emit could be harmful to both us and the nature there.
We were excited as we ventured into the deep jungle. My friends were making so much noise! I told them to keep quiet if they wanted to see some animals but they ignored me. As we continued our journey, we had to climb a very steep path and go down another. I almost fell as we were going down. I had conquered my fear of heights as I looked down and I thought "Hey! It is really not that bad!"
As we went into the jungle, we saw some sort of a building and we went in and it was some sort of a learning centre. As we found out about the history of the nature reserve, I had curiously asked a teacher, where we were going next. He told me we were going to a really muddy place. And he was right! The next place we went were REALLY muddy! We were all screaming like girls, most of the boys were, and I had slipped and fallen into a small poind while trying to cross it and that had conquered me fears for being dirty and I hate being dirty and, surprisingly, I am proud of the mud on my shoes.
I had found this hike very enjoyable and we could learn something from here too. Like I learn that a bat that can only be found at the Nature reserve was becoming extinct. We should all play a part in saving nature and to conquere ourselves like I just did.

Green Schools @ SW Assembly Talk

An Assembly Talk by Eco-Society Singapore on 26 May.

Mr Chris Jenssen giving a talk on Environmental Protection.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3805587/environment_-_secondary.pdf

'A Community in Bloom' at Jurong Primary School

An Outreach Project at Jurong Primary School on 20 May.

Colourful windmills from recycled bottles and bottle caps - a collaborative recycling effort by Hong Kah Secondary School and Jurong Primary School.

An Outreach Project at Jurong Primary School - a collaborative effort between Green Club and Homec Club on 20 May.

Clean hearts + Clean minds + Clean hands = Clean school. Pupils using bottle caps as decorations.

Harani and Ellysa hammering holes into bottle caps to make windmills.

Haikal with his instructor, Uncle Ishak and showing off his masterpiece made of recycled materials.

Bradley and Khairin with their windmills.

Members from Homec Club staining the recycled bottles red. Working together - our pupils and their juniors at Jurong Primary School.

Working as a team - members from Green Club and Homec Club, staining recycled bottles yellow.

Hiking to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

Green Club members on a CIP cum hiking trip to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve.

Flora and Fauna at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

It was a good experience for me . It reflects the time when there was nature everywhere and not many concrete jungle. Walking through the trail was like traveling back in time .

I thought it would be another boring trip . Somehow , after the whole hike , I had a new and better appreciation of the forests and their beauty .
-It was tiring but I also bonded with my classmates as we encourage one another.
-My favorite was walking through the muddy path . I learned to conquer myself, with perserverance and determination to walk through the slippery, muddy and steep slopes.

Comments from the pupils:

- Kept a look out for my friends, telling them to be careful not to trip and fall into the muddy areas

- Walked in an orderly manner when walking on precipitous area
- Behaved ourselves by not talking loudly with my friends, so that we would not disturb the animals there.
- Learnt many interesting and useful information about the reserve

Sec 1A's experience at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve.