Best green schools: The winning members from SK Convent Pulau Tikus (left) and Methodist Girls School rejoicing after receiving the mock cheque for RM1,000 each.
STUDENTS Goh Sze Wei, Adeline Anthony, Caryn Khoo and Rebecca Tang from the Methodist Girls School were a picture of delight as they went on stage to receive the winning prize for the Green School Awards 2010.
The girls, who are members of the school’s Environment Club, had helped make their school proud when together with their club’s teacher advisor Looi Lai Wah, they put in extra effort after their school hours to carry out their 3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) project.
Looi said the project, which was initiated by the school in 2002, was improvised over the years.
“On Thursdays, we place the recycle trays along the corridors so that students who bring trash from home can sort out the trash according to whether it’s paper, plastic or metal,” she said after accepting the first prize of RM1,000, a certificate and a trophy.
Looi said the students also carried out other programmes such as vermicompost, composting, herbal garden and fruit planting.
“We use waste from the vermicompost as fertiliser in our herbal garden and fruits patch,” she added.
SMK Seri Mutiara emerged as second winner, winning RM600 and SMK St George took the third place and walked away with RM400 in the secondary school category.
Penang Municipal Council secretary Ang Aing Thye gave away the prizes at the awards presentation ceremony at Penang Times Square.
The winners in the primary school category were SK Convent Pulau Tikus which won RM1,000 while runner-up SK Sungai Rusa and third placed SK Pulau Betong bagged RM600 and RM400 respectively.
The awards is a project under the state government’s ‘Cleaner, Greener Penang’ initiative and it challenged schools on Penang island to come up with a holistic programme for environmental conservation.
Ten basic green practices were identified to help schools create environment-friendly programmes.
Among them were finding ways to recycle and reuse excess food and cooking oil, using environmentally friendly cleaning products, cutting down the usage of plastic bags and polystyrene, planting trees, conserving water and saving electricity.
The schools were judged on three criteria — a prepared report on the green programme (30%), a presentation (20%) and the project evaluation by the judging panel (50%).
The Green School Awards 2010 was sponsored by Ivory Properties and organised with the co-operation of Penang Environment Working Group, the state Education Department, the state’s Department of Environment and MPPP’s Local Agenda 21 (LA 21) programme.
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