EkoSkola Activities

Making school greener – an Ekoskola initiative

These girls participated in the “Making School Greener” EkoSkola initiative that encouraged the students to design and draw how they would like to make different school areas greener. We believe in children’s voices and so all these ideas have been passed on to the school leadership team for consideration. Well done girls for your commitment towards our school .

Our Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE)

Our Grade 6 students had the opportunity to learn about investigative photography with Ms Audrey Gauci, an Ekoskola teacher and a representative of YRE Malta. They also practised their photography skills at Golden Bay. Some of the girls embarked on this project of identifying areas in our environment, capturing them in photos and commenting about them in short captions. Here are this year’s (2023- 2024) entries:

Nina Dullnigg – Grade 6 – 11 years old

  • The air we breathe…
  • Nature replaced by overdevelopment
  • Large amounts of litter left on the side of our streets
  • Destroying Nature

Yana Scerri (11 years) and Kayleigh Calleja (10 years old) – Grade 6

  • No we don’t want this – keep our shores clean

Kelly Mizzi – Grade 6 (10 years old)

  • Do not cut down trees

Lyla Bezzina McKay, Julia D’Agostino, Eliza Cassar & Kelly Mizzi – Grade 6 (10 years old)

  • Do not litter

Martina Cremona – Grade 6 (10 years old)

  • A far cry from a works of art!

Lucia Valletta – Grade 6 (10 years old)

  • Don’t let nature be our litter bag, help keep it clean

Julia Fava – Grade 6 (10 years old)

  • Why can’t all Malta be like this?

Cataleya Micallef – Grade 6 (10 years old)

  • The world is in our hands – do not litter

Jade Zammit – Grade 6 (11 years old)

  • Litter is not hygienic on the floor and instead of eating it people wasted food

Renee Galea – Grade 6 (11 years old)

  • Buildings won over nature

Caitlyn McDonagh and Francesca Mifsud – Grade 6 (10 years old)

  • Bin it after you eat it

Annika Cortis and Ksenya Cardona – Grade 6 (11 years old)

  • Waste lies in the sandy shores

Amy Grech – Grade 6 (11 years old)

  • Don’t waste food – other people need it
  • If you dirty my earth you are dirtying yours
  • Respect our Nature
  • Respect our Nature

Adaya Muscat Pirotta – Grade 6 (11 years old)

  • Throw rubbish in the bin
  • There’s a bin, use it!

Ekoskola Committee Meetings have started!

Our Ekoskola committee meets once every week, on a Thursday during breaktime to do their work on the Action plan. In the past weeks we held our elections to form the committee roles. Below are the girls’ responsibilities according to the results of this year’s election:

The Ekoskola Committee roles 2023

We are currently discussing the main environmental issues that concern the committee girls in order to establish the way forward and start our 7 Ekoskola steps. In our upcoming meetings we will be identifying the theme for our campaign for the upcoming year.

During our Ekoskola Committee meetings – November 2023

Ekoskola LitterLess Campaign 

In the past years (2020-2021), our school took part in the LitterLess Campaign entitled ‘Material Matters Dispose Wisely’. Here is a Virtual Art Exhibition we have set up! Following the great turnout we had for the Mascot Drawing Challenge, the SJJS Ekoskola Committee decided to showcase not just the winning mascot, but all the great artworks the girls at our school did to promote this year’s LitterLess theme: Material Matters – Dispose Wisely and to share powerful messages on how to take care of our environment.

https://www.emaze.com/@AOTOCZCRW/the-sjjs-ekoskola-litterless-campaign—virtual-art-exhibition