Grade 8 Gauri Shukla whose runs the SOS Campaign against the Haze and was featured recently in our Dunia publications was a winner in the recent Beyond The Haze competition which featured schools across the region. Her video was judged best in her age group and for her prize she is off to the fabulous Leusner National Park in Sumatra to view the work of local NGOs in creating a more sustainable future for the forests of Indonesia.
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| Contest Winner Gauri Shukla |
Grade 7 Jasmine Picard and Grade 1 Roshan Srivastava were also a prize-winning runners-up; their creative videos and posters that raised awareness of the Haze issue beat hundreds of others to feature in the top places.
Thanks to Environmental Stewardship co-ordinators, Gordon Hirons (MS) & Nicole Kutschenreuter (JS) for supporting these entries.
Grade 8 Geographers were also recognised in an essay competition this year on Sustainable Cities organised by the Trust for Sustainable Living. Noyna Roy's excellent essay made her a finalist while Rohan Punamiya and Vivek Venkatram's entries also received Honourable Mentions. Considering this was a truly global competition with over a thousand entries, their achievements are outstanding. |
| Global Finalist Noyna Roy |
Many thanks to Mark Porter and the Middle School Humanities department who linked this competition to the work the Grade 8 Geographers do in their exciting Future Cities Unit and supported the writing process in the MS GeogSoc lunchtime activity.
Well done to all students and teachers and parents who supported them. Great to see a growing interest in Environmental sustainability issues across the school and genuine thinking and action by these creative students to achieve our mission.
