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| For the past two years,
Nan Hua Secondary has actively sought to raise environmental
awareness among its students. So serious is the school about
protecting the environment that it has put the green movement
as a strategic focus for the years 2001-2005. |
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| Principal Mr Foo leading his students
in tree planting during Clean and Green Day last
year. |
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| Gifts for teachers made from recycled
materials. |
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EXPLAINED PRINCIPAL Foo Suan Fong, “We
believe in the holistic education of our young. As much as we
are constantly making efforts to improve the academic performance
of our pupils, we are fully committed to nurturing in them a
knowledge and appreciation of their rich environmental heritage,
and to imbue them with the desire to preserve and protect it.”
Environmental awareness is infused into daily activities, and
everyone works together as one big Nan Hua family when it comes
to projects and programmes. For Teachers’ Day last year,
for example, activities were organised along a “Total
Environment” theme, with nature-themed concerts and recycled
materials being used to make cards and gifts.
The school is also actively involved in other green activities,
such as Earth Day celebrations. In 2002, Nan Hua organised the
first primary school green quiz for the South-West district
primary schools. In 2003, their outreach programmes included
the first National Clean and Green Camp involving more than
200 pupils from 43 primary schools as well as workshops for
teachers.
For their green efforts over the past two years, Nan Hua Secondary
received a Lotus Award, the highest environmental award for
schools, from the Singapore Environment Council on 17 November
2003. Nan Hua Secondary, together with Anderson Secondary, Dunman
Secondary, Nanyang Girls’ High, Woodgrove Secondary and
Zhangde Primary, was the first recipient of the award since
the scheme started in 2000.
Contributed
by Mr Chia Yew Loon, Nan Hua Secondary School |
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