Initiatives in collaboration with WWF Singapore

WWF Site Visit

As we renew our Green Flag certification this year, we welcomed WWF assessors, Ms Eliza from WWF Singapore and Ms Liu Qi from Science Centre into our campus to evaluate the whole school’s values in action for environmental sustainability.  Both assessors were very impressed with all the sustainability work and efforts that our students and our school community engage into.

October 14, 2024

Students Conducting Awareness Session during Secondary School Assembly

The WWF Eco-Committee of our school conducted a session on importance of food and minimising food wastes during the Secondary School assembly on Monday, 14th October.

August 13, 2024

"Change the Way we think about Food"

Today also marks the beginning of another 5-month-long project led by a few of our sustainability club members with a pre-workshop session led by WWF Singapore trainers. 

August 13, 2024

"Plastic and Wastes: Understand the impacts of single-use plastics, and learn ways to handle and reduce waste."

We had the privilege of welcoming a guest speaker from WWF Singapore on Plastic and Wastes.  It was an eye-opening session as we realised that we are breathing and eating 5 grams of plastic on a weekly basis and that we all need to re-think how we are using plastics and disposing of them.

Here are a few take aways by our students.

December 7, 2023

"Change the Way You Think About Waste"

This was a five (5) months long project starting from August 2023.  With all the other initiatives that your good school is currently doing, this project fits in nicely in supporting your students and school with their efforts to reduce waste. 

Students had complete 7 steps process to ensure-

1. Influence the whole school to change the way they think about Waste (linear to circular)

2. Encourage the whole school to be aware of and take positive actions for waste reduction

3. Inspire the school community to create innovative solutions to reduce waste in school using design thinking

October 24, 2023

WWF Workshop- Change the way we think about waste

March 20, 2023

Composting Workshop at IKEA organized by WWF

March 16, 2023

Vermi Composting- Educator's Workshop

We had spent almost two hours (we honestly lost track of time), learning about vermicomposting, its global impact and how to care for our new pets, the wormies. Teachers at GIIS attended the hands-on vermicomposting workshop organized by WWF. There are so many opportunities to make cross-curricular connections and build valuable skills throughout the year with the worm farm. It opens up further discussions about our roles and responsibilities when it comes to climate change. We're planning to compost our food wastage of school and  see how long it'll take the wormies to break it down. We also plan to collect worm casings to learn more about the life cycle of our wormies and estimate how many worms come out of each casing. The possibilities are endless!

October 12, 2022

WWF Audit

GIIS East Coast campus underwent a successful audit by WWF Singapore as part of our application for Eco-School Green Flag award.

September 7, 2022

Photography In Nature Series- Organised by WWF

 WWF,  organised an outdoor-based programme with citizen science components exclusively for Eco-Schools. GIIS – EC campus participated in the event on 17th Sep 2022. Students volunteered along with Teachers for the activity. 

Main goal is to train students and teachers to be future sustainability leaders who will eventually lead these activities for their school community.