GIIS Students Experience Re-Cycling!!
World
Environment Day is celebrated annually on 5th June
and was instituted to inspire people around the globe to become active
about the environment and learn more about ways to ensure the future safety of
our planet. In line with this, the theme for the
month of June at GIIS Chinchwad was ‘Environment.’ Various events, special
assemblies, class activities, group and house activities based on Environment,
helped students to not only gain knowledge but also act as responsible
citizens.
“Best out
of waste” a long standing catchword is certainly the need of the hour. Keeping
in mind the tones of junk and scrap generated by all of us, it would be indeed
a blessing if some of the unwanted stuff could be turned into serviceable
things. With this thought in mind the
students of GIIS Chinchwad celebrated the waste-free week starting on the 17th
of June, 2013.
The students from class I designed
bookmarks from old cardboard strips and newspaper, while students from classes
II and III made beautiful pencil stands with old but colourful magazines.
Students from class IV and V attempted to make a multipurpose basket out of old
newspapers! Their enthusiasm knew no bounds as they carefully weaved their
baskets, which were decorated by using a myriad of colours. The activity ended
by having a decently strong basket which could hold an assortment of
belongings.
Students
across classes VI to VIII were assigned the task of making creative, useful and
decorative articles using e-waste. The students put on their thinking caps and
came up with splendid ideas. They created articles that were all unique in
their own ways. Students made use of old
music cassettes, floppy disks and keys from old keyboards and even used CD’s to
make beautiful and useful items of daily use.
Celebrating
the waste free activity week, not only triggered the creative side of the pupils,
but also helped in creating awareness and sensitizing them to issues like
saving the Environment. It helped the children to realize that a small
initiative towards recycling and reusing can have a huge overall global impact which
will go a long way into saving the forthcoming generations from the possible
hazard of a socio-economic breakdown caused due to tones of untreated garbage.
