Eco-Curriculars at Knox Academy

At Knox Academy, we value the environment in our local community and in the wider world. We feel that it is important for young people to engage with environmental issues, which have an impact on our present and undoubtedly on our future. For this reason, there are two environmental clubs at Knox Academy in which students can get involved: the Eco-Committee and the Green Team.

The Eco-Committee is a student and staff group which works to implement positive environmental changes within Knox Academy and the school community. The committee meets once a week on Tuesdays at lunch time in Miss Laudi's room (T1.2) to organise environmental initiatives like awareness campaigns, donation drives, and our ever popular Eco-Week.

The Green Team is Knox Academy's recycling club and we meet every Wednesday at lunch time in Miss Laudi's room (T1.2). We get together once a week to empty recycling from classrooms around the school and we work on other projects throughout the year too. We have an amazing group of students in S1-S4 who are already involved and we always welcome new members!

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For further information or if you would like to contribute to these groups, please contact Miss Laudi.

Environment News

ECO-WEEK EVENT 5: CLOTHING COLLECTION FOR ROCK TRUST
Published: Thu 7 Mar 2019

Our final Eco-Week initiative is a clothing collection for Rock Trust, a charitable organisation that works with young people aged 16 to 25 who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Rock Trust provides useful services like one-to-one support, group programmes, employability training, and volunteering/work experience opportunities. To help young people, Rock Trust also provides supplies like clothing. A year and a half ago, the Eco-Committee ran a donation campaign for Rock Trust and we collected 94 kilos of donations! Let's see if we can top that this year!

We're collecting donations of clean clothes in good condition (ages 16-25/sizes 8-16) from March 11 to 22 - that's two whole weeks! And this comes at a great time because you might be doing some spring cleaning at home and realize that in the depths of your closet, you have a lot of clothes you rarely wear! Rather than send those clothes to landfill, let's put them toward a good cause! Clothing donations can be brought to Miss Laudi's room from March 11-22. We look forward to seeing the Knox community come together for another good cause!

ECO-WEEK EVENT 4: ECO SHOP COMING TO KNOX
Published: Wed 6 Mar 2019

The Eco-Committee is extremely excited to announce that we're bringing an ECO-SHOP to Knox Academy for Eco-Week! Lil is an online/mobile shop that specializes in products aimed at helping people reduce their impact on the environment... in other words, Low Impact Living. Lil champions a lifestyle that is kind to the environment through natural, ethical, and low waste products.

Lil will be selling their eco-friendly products at Knox on Tuesday 12 March in the social area at lunch time. They will also be with us during S2 Parents Night on Tuesday evening from 5pm to 7pm. Lil will be selling a variety of items including shampoo bars, soap bars, reusable straws, lunch boxes, deodorants, lip balms, and more! You can look at Lil's products on their website here, just bear in mind that they won't be bringing in their pantry items (e.g. loose food) or liquid refills. Lil conveniently accepts cash, card, and applepay. So moral of the story: come explore what sustainable products Lil is bringing in and perhaps buy some to try out!

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