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Please watch this space for updates and pictures showcasing our progress. Thank you/Merci!
Please watch this space for updates and pictures showcasing our progress. Thank you/Merci!
Eco Schools 2025
Eco Schools 2025
Our eco actions for 2025 ...
Our eco actions for 2025 ...
Students are decorating the collection boxes for our milk bag donations and collection. We are collecting milk bags to donate to milk bags unlimited who transform them into mats for the unhoused community. Students will also be making tote bags as part of an upcycling project using extra milk bags.
*REGAL ROAD Community members...
We are accepting milk bag donations. Milkbags will be collected on each floor in the student made (painted and labeled) collection boxes, thank you!
We are continuing to build on our eco actions over the past few years and hope to gain Platinum status for the 4th year in a row by upholding our eco-conscious actions and stewardness as a school community!
Eco Schools 2024
Eco Schools 2024
We have reached platinum status for the third year in a row! Keep up those eco actions RRPS! Way to go!
We have reached platinum status for the third year in a row! Keep up those eco actions RRPS! Way to go!
Eco club 2024
Eco club 2024
Eco leaders have been distributing posters and educating classrooms on how to properly sort their waste. Students have been participating in our 2023-2024 eco action goals on a regular basis. Have a look at our virtual eco room with the types of actions we have been working on this school year! RRPS Virtual Eco room *Please scroll down to see our actions.
Upcycled fidget spinner making with old CDs and marker caps
Pollinator habitat garden thanks to our Learning For Sustainability Fund (LSF).
ECO GOALS...
ECO GOALS...
We are progressing towards platinum again this year and fulfiling many of our eco goals! Watch this space for more pictures soon to come...
OUR 17 eco actions for 2023!
OUR 17 eco actions for 2023!
Environmental literacy
Active and sustainable school travel
Community clean-up
Create nearby nature guides, maps, and signs
Greenbelt diversity
Sit spot
Waste Free lunch
GOOS paper
Pollinator garden
Our Eco Actions to regain Platinum status in 2024
Our Eco Actions to regain Platinum status in 2024
Here are the eco actions we have taken on and hope to complete by the spring! We will also pair these with our CCEL schoolwide experiential learning project which will focus on Indigenous and land based learning and teaching. Last year we also worked with Indigenous knowledge keepers and focused on greening our spaces. We also focused on outdoor learning and play by building planters, sit spots, and giant outdoor games! This year we will showcase our learning around the seven grandfather teachings on wooden art installations which will be attached to our fencing. This will continue to encourage more outdoor learning and connecting to nature and the land.
10. Reduce harmful single-use plastics
11. Sort your waste
12. Switch off lights and devices
13. WWF Earth hour
14. Recycle personal and electronic waste
15. Take me outside day
16. Earth day
17. Repurposing and innovative recycling
CCEL updates
CCEL updates
We are nearing the end of our CCEL project: Community Connected Experiential Learning Project which connect ot our eco actions. Have a look at the planters and outdoor games the students created in collaboration with Oakwood C.I. These games and planters will support our outdoor education initiatives. All students will partake in the planting.
We are nearing the end of our CCEL project: Community Connected Experiential Learning Project which connect ot our eco actions. Have a look at the planters and outdoor games the students created in collaboration with Oakwood C.I. These games and planters will support our outdoor education initiatives. All students will partake in the planting.
Eco conscious schoolwide acts
Eco conscious schoolwide acts
These are just a few examples of eco conscious mindful acts in our school. Students have GOOS bins and have made signage drawing attention to how we can better care for the environment!
OASIS program
OASIS program
Our school got involved in the OASIS program as part of our eco initiatives and actions, as well as our CCEL project. Students learned about Indigenous ways of learning and caring for the land and planted the 3 sisters: Corn, beans, squash, as well as sunflowers. They started planting in their classrooms and will plant the remaining seeds in our new planters that we made in collaboration with Oakwood collegiate as part of our CCEL project.
Our upclycled Eco Mural
Our upclycled Eco Mural
The big Eco mural unveiling!
The big Eco mural unveiling!
The eco team and eco club invited our parents/caregivers to our mural unveiling
The eco wall being revealed
The eco wall being revealed
The students put 8 months of hard work into this beautiful upclyced bottle cap mural. All RRPS had a voice in the design!
Our beautiful upclycled bottle cap Eco mural
Our beautiful upclycled bottle cap Eco mural
Our finished upclycled Eco Mural which depicts a turtle which connects to Turtle island and the SDG "Life blow Water".
Butterfly gardens
Butterfly gardens
Students from Mr.O's class planted seeds that help attract butterflies. They prepared the soil, scattered the seeds, buried them in soil, and added fresh compost on top. They then gave the soil a very good drink of water! Watch this space as things unfold. We will also release the butterflies once they have gone through their life cycle!
Student led TRASH TEAM
Student led TRASH TEAM
This student who is part of the trash team started doing a litter sweep during recess and recruited other students to help! :)
One of our students Max from room 22 took the initiative to start a student led trash team! Students meet every Wednesday at lunch . They have started making posters to create awareness about reclycling, not littering, and protecting our environement! They will do community trash sweeps when the weather improves!
A picture of Ms. Kingman's pumpkin compost planting project. Another form of upcycling? More details to come!
Decomposed Pumpkin experiment
Decomposed Pumpkin experiment
Ms. Kingman's grade 3 class experimented with a pumpkin which they observed and decomposed over the course of a few months, and which they used for a planting project/experiment.
Upcycled mural project:
Upcycled mural project:
Action 17 of our eco school goals: repurposing and innovative recycling
Action 17 of our eco school goals: repurposing and innovative recycling
Eco club students hard at work and bringing our upcyled Eco mural to life! They are painting the canvas before adding the bottle caps
The students used pastels for the base on which they will add the different coloured bottle caps
Here is a look at the Eco club's continued progress!! :)
Here is a look at the Eco club's continued progress!! :)
Here is the colour scheme and layout of the mural they created. Next step: bottle caps!
From another angle, the finished product will look amazing, watch this space!
Community Connected Experiential Learning Project - CCEL
Community Connected Experiential Learning Project - CCEL
Our school won a grant for CAD 12000 for a CCEL project. Our project willl span from February to May 2023.
What is CCEL? CCEL is meaningful experiential learning that takes place in the community. It delvelops students' global competencies and provides them with opportunites for authentic learning, fosters collaboartion, as well as enables them to explore future potential career pathways connected to the skilled trades.
What is Regal Road's CCEL project going to be? Our school's focus will be on Indigenous and holistic land based learning, greening of our spaces, sustainability, and the building of wooden planters, games, and seating for our outdoor spaces. We will be working closely with an Indigenous partner, Luana Shirt, who will provide cultural teachings to students, teacher, and parent/caregivers (more information will be shared shortly!). We will also collaborate and partner with Oakwood Collegiate Institute and woodworking teacher Joe Flynn who will help us build giant games, planters, benches, and chalkboards for our outdoor spaces with our students and theirs. Regular updates will be shared in the HEBDO or on the latest news page, as well as on Twitter: @Vroucaud. If you wish to volunteer or get involved, please do not hesitate to reach out, thank you!
ECO School updates!
ECO School updates!
VERMICOMPOSTING AND SCHOOL BASED COMPOSTING
Mme. Kreger's class has been vermicomposting this school year!
Ms.Elango's class has been collecting dried out markers for recycling all year! :)
VERMICOMPOSTING AND SCHOOL BASED COMPOSTING
Check out these heathy worms! :)
Our bottle cap collection has gotten off to a great start - please keep them coming! :)
The primrose garden planted by Mr. Rowles's class!
Upcycled mural project
Upcycled mural project
We are ready to start collecting bottle caps of any kind for our upcycled mural project on the theme of protecting the ocean/ocean life!
Our new donated planter and beautiful log "sit spot"!
EcoSchools initiatives for Regal Road 2021-2022
EcoSchools initiatives for Regal Road 2021-2022
GOOS box designs
GOOS box designs
In the past, Regal Road students have designed GOOS (Good On One Side) boxes for reusable classroom paper. This is one action that the majority of the school will be participating in again this year. Watch this space as I will be sharing pictures of their creative designs shortly!
Regal Road's 17 actions
Regal Road's 17 actions
Regal Road has won bronze, silver and gold EcoSchools certification in the past. This year, we are eligible for platinum. Regal Road school's action plan includes 16 actions this year!
Regal Road Public School's EcoSchools Action Plan for the 2021-2022 school year
Regal Road Public School's EcoSchools Action Plan for the 2021-2022 school year
Here is what our school will strive for this school year:
Here is what our school will strive for this school year:
GETTING STARTED
ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY
TREE PLANTING AND MAINTENANCE AT SCHOOL
ACTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE SCHOOL TRAVEL
GOOS PAPER
CONNECT WITH NEARBY NATURE
SCHOOL WATER AUDIT
POLLINATOR GARDEN
SIT SPOT
TAKE ME OUTSIDE DAY
WWF EARTH HOUR
CREATE HOMES FOR WILDLIFE
ANTI-IDLING
VERMICOMPOSTING AND SCHOOL BASED COMPOSTING
TREE CARE AND STEWARDSHIP
REDUCE YOUR FOOD WASTE
EARTH DAY
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