WESSA Schools Programme Annual Report 2019/2020

Vaalpark Primary School

Vanderbijlpark, Free State

CHARMAINE KRIEK’S STORY OF CHANGE

Born and raised in Vanderbijlpark, I matriculated in 1990. My parents loved camping and they raised me to take responsibility for my actions, take care of nature and help people where possible. The saying “Be the change you want to see!” speaks to my soul and I live by the understanding that what I can do, I will do – since small things can make an impact if many people do them together. I try my best to educate learners about environmental issues because they can make a difference to our planet for their generation and their children’s generation. Together we can ‘be’ that difference.

OUR JOURNEY – OUR PROJECTS

encouraged the staff and learners to recycle at school. Parents were also notified to send recycling, such as newspapers and magazines, to school to raise funds. We organised plastic refuse bags with the school’s policy and logo printed on them. Parents can buy these bags from school to collect their home recycling and send them to our Recycling Centre. The waste reduction has been astonishing. This saved the school many refuse bags as well as trips to the

dumping site.

Every year since 2014, the school has held an annual Go-Kart Race fundraiser. We usually make the perimeter of the Go-Kart-track out of recycled cold drink bottles. This year the perimeter of the race track was demarcated using little decorated cars and trucks – made from recycled two-litre cold drink bottles, milk bottles and papier-mâché made with our own recycled paper of course! The children were tasked with making little Nissan

Located on the northern outskirts of Sasolburg near the Vaal River, Vaalpark Primary School joined the WESSA Eco-School Programme in 2014.

All the classrooms were supplied with paper recycling boxes, w h i c h

Small things can make an impact if many people do them together

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