Wednesday 27 April 2011

Earth Day, the St. Andrew's way

Our Lasallians from St Andrew's were the first to kick off our Earth Hour-Day programme. Below, a sharing from Tay Jian Yao

Our school in conjunction with the Earth day celebration held some activities in our school. The activities are coordinated and planned by the Lasalle Fellowship of Saint Andrew. Toh Shaw Shiuan who is the president of the Lasalle Fellowship and Tay Jian Yao its vice president collaborated with Miss Quek our teacher adviser to carry out the event.

We prepared a short clip and power point presentation regarding Earth day and about the significance of Earth Day. We showed them the importance of Earth Day and the activities that can be carried out during the event throughout the globe. We held this activity in our school lab where we displayed the clip to our Lasalle members to educate and clarify to them about the significant of earth day. After viewing the clip, our members commented about our presentation and was very delighted and interested about this activity. They also wanted to play their part in preserving Mother Nature and our beautiful world by doing simple things such as reduce pollution and recycling.

Next we also printed and pasted several articles regarding the Earth Day event on our school board. Our main objective is to encourage other students as well to do their duty as responsible citizens in conserving nature. The articles included steps and measures taken by countries and governments across the globe to protect our planet from pollution. We got these articles from various sources like the internet, magazines and others. After reading up the articles on our board, the students are also interested in our activity and promised to help to conserve nature.

In a nutshell, the activity we carried out not only had a huge impact on our fellow schoolmates but us as well. By carrying out the Earth’s Day event we had certainly acquired much beneficial and wonderful knowledge about the nature. We also learned more about our role of preserving and conserving the environment and the ecosystem