Current Projects Term 1

Aromatic plants and mint tea

Sara Bellmunt, Aina Planas, Georgia Martinez (1º ESO)

Oct 2016 - ?

"We are Georgia, Aina and Sara. As you many know we are workingon a project that consists of planting aromatic plants. We are doing this poroject because we want to make our school a better place for nature and plants, we have already filled up 3 flower pots and we want to fill them all, around the school. We will continue our project although we will not be in Environmental EP because the term is finishing.

We want to make tea out of the aromatic plants and we will try to sell it on Family Day.

Photographing the Seasons

Sara Bellmunt  (1º ESO)

Oct 2016 - June 2017

I am Sara Bellmunt, I've been working on a project that consists of taking pictures at the same place (the mountain) every day. I have been taking the pictures for 20 days now and I have seen the changes on one of the trees. It is very important to take the picture at the same solar time because finally when I make the video with all of the pictures I have taken I want it to have the same light.

The term is finishing and I will be in another enrichment project but I will still continue taking the pictures until the end of the year and then make the video.

I have done this project to show how the world changes during a year, showing the different seasons and develop out love of nature.

Teaching Year 2 and 3 about Environmental Issues

Alexandra Thackray, María Waters, Anabel Santa María, Martina Huguet, Carla Castelltort, Martina Varela, Paula Nadal, Alex Mayol, Katia Mir (1º ESO)

Oct 2016 - November 2016

These students worked in groups to prepare and teach a 45 minute lesson to Primary pupils. They wanted to teach the importance of soil, the beauty of plants, and give an interesting practical activity to generate enthusiasm about environmental issues.They worked hard to prepare presentations, gather materials and plan the activity and today 24th November they gave the classes. All the pupils involved planted a seed, and were given the chance to ask questions about how plants grow, soil and the importance of water. Thanks to Andy, James and Victoria who supported us and let us into the classes!

"I loved the experience! I felt like a real teacher and the children were so mature and responsible. I would love to do this 1000 times more"

"As we started the activity, the kids told me that they loved plants and wanted to know more about it. I had loads of fun with them explaining them and showing them but I had to have a lot of patience with some of them, I still don't know how teachers can have so much patience"

"We got different materials and put them in the children's hand, they were blindfolded and they had to guess what it was and if it was environmentally friendly or not. At the start they were scared about what we were going to put in their hands, but they ended up enjoying it very much. We used sand, soil, yogurt pots and cardboard boxes. They found the soil disgusting at the start but we related it to food and then they thought it was amazing!!!"

"It was a great experience with year 2 yellow today. We, Alexandra, Anabel and I, taught them about the recycling bins and about our world. We then split them into to groups and did a few activities with them. The first activity was based on making the children plant lentil seeds, in recycled yogurt pots, and water them. They really liked the activity. Some of there questions were: Why aren't they growing yet? Were do we leave them? Is the activity finished, we don't want it to finish?"

"They learned how to grow a plant and we learned how to show small kids to grow, so next time we can do it better. We did some activities so they could learn and have fun at the same time, first we did our presentation and after we added the soil into their yogurt pots. After that they had to write in their whiteboard what was soil for them, some of them said it smelled bad or good and if it was soft or rough. Following the soil activity we left some cress seeds in each table and they had to count 6 seeds and add them to their pots"

How much aluminium foil do we throw away at school?

Luis Palau, Paco Coll (1ºESO)

Sept 2016 - November 2016

From the dayThursday17 of November to the day Thursday 24 of November we put some blue bins at the side of some of the bins to gather aluminum. We collected all the foil. We will recycle the foil, but actually we wanted to measure how much was thrown away each day so we can aim to REDUCE it by then end of the year.

We weighed it, and in just these days we collected 1.2kg of thrown away foil.

Bad part : Because it rained, the signs that told that our bins were to recollect aluminum went of and the people didn't know what to PUT, so I think there should have been more aluminum. Also the people through not only aluminum but plastic and other things.