Katherine+Fogarty

​Year 9 Japanese

The St Leonards Cornish Campus was a very interesting place to visit. They incorporated alot of sustainable activities into their daily school lives such as learning about sustainability and gardening, and their school had a lot of sustainable recources. Some of the sustainable things they do included: using recycled paper, not having/using textbooks, they have a wind turbine, solar panels and use passive air conditioning and heating, feeding their food scraps to chooks and turning lights and other electrical appliances off at the switch when the room/item is not in use. The school also educates the s​tudents about sustainability so that when they leave the school they will continue to live sustainably.
 * St Leonards **

** CERES ** What did you learn? I learnt a fair bit at CERES. I learnt some ways that you can make building more sustainable (such as having north facing windows and walls that can absorb heat), and also some other things such as the purpose of doing things like using worms to break down food scraps and different ways in which you can reuse different recources. I found the future section quite fun and it was interesting what the predicted future would be like based on my decisions.

How did this experience help you make connections with your research into sustainability in Japanese schools? This experience has helped me think of ways in which Japanese schools could be sustainable, and has give me a further understanding of how sustainable they already are (The benefits of what they do etc).

What could we as a school do to be more sustainable in light of what you saw yesterday? I think that the sustainability level at our school could be improved a lot. As Ian said Yesterday, growing a small vegetable garden is a good school project and I also think that the canteen could benefit from that as well. Something else we could do is break down some of our food scraps with worms and/or have at least 1 compost bin. I think that recyling bins should also be made available outside, as a lot of people have canned drinks and other things that can be recycled. A major problem at our school is the rubbish problem, but that's a hard thing to change as some people are just to lazy to put their rubbish in the bin. They just need to be more motivated. Something else that's a problem is that lights are left on all the time. We need to stop turning on lights when it isn't necessary and remember to turn them off when we leave the room.

** How do Japanese schools save electricity? ** How do Japanese shools save electricity?

What about in Korea?

How else are they sustainable?

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How do Japanese schools save electricity? -turn off lights when not in use -pull out plugs -use energy saving lights

How do Japanese schools save water? -they have posters which say 'don't use too much water' -turn off taps

How do Japanese schools recylce waste (including paper) -they use recycled paper -recycling bins How are Japanese schools cleaned? (including graffiti and rubbish removal) -clean everyday for ten minutes -they put their rubbish in the bin -every Friday they wash tables etc -they use towels to wash -they clean their blackboards