The Environmental
Education
programme in the high school is multi-faceted and comprises the following
programmes:
- Four-day field trips for grades 8
to 10
- Curriculum-based work in disciplines such as
Geography, Natural Science, Life Science and the languages
- Environmental Committee which is part of our
Leadership programme
- A recycling programme
- The development of indigenous
school gardens
Field Trips or "Enviros":
The field trips are designed to develop people who are environmentally
literate and have a strong environmental ethic.
Environmental literacy recognises the need for sustainable development and
encompasses the upliftment of human communities as much as the conservation of natural
communities.
The three years of Environmental Education
complement each other and build on previous year's experiences.
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The Grade 8 field trip to
Highover Wildlife Sanctuary is a sensitising trip where we
try to encourage the learners to tune in to their surroundings and to each other.
More on the
Highover Field Trip. |
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The Grade 9 field trip
is to the Entabeni
Environmental Education Centre which is near Giant's Castle. The intensive programme
is centred around the vital resource of water. More on the
Entabeni Field Trip. |
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The Grade 10 learners look at the sustainable use of
resources, human, man-made and natural, in the Mtunzini district of Zululand. They stay in the beautiful
environmental centre of Twinstreams, which is in the coastal dunes.
Click here
for a detailed look at research projects. More on the
Mtunzini Field Trip. |
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For more information
about the St Mary's Environmental School Programme
contact Betsy Kee:
bkee@stmarys.kzn.school.za |
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