DÍA DE LIMPIEZA/RECICLADO DE PLÁSTICOS, PAPEL DE ALUMINIO Y LATAS ALREDEDOR DEL COLEGIO

 Hoy hemos salido fuera del recinto escolar, y nos hemos adentrado en la zona boscosa que rodea nuestro colegio, donde hemos encontrado una gran cantidad de basura, sobre todo, plásticos, papel aluminio y latas. 

Nos hemos dividido en dos grupos y, durante dos horas hemos recogido gran cantidad de restos que se han ido acumulando durante mucho tiempo.

Es nuestra primera experiencia de este tipo fuera de las instalaciones del colegio y esperamos volver a repetirla, a ser posible en alguna playa cerca de la ciudad de Valencia o, incluso, en el Parque natural de la Albufera.

Os dejamos unas fotos. Esperamos que todo el mundo se conciencie y se dé cuenta de lo poco que cuesta ensuciar y lo mucho que tardamos en limpiar y el mal que se está haciendo a nuestro entorno y al medio ambiente.

Un saludo de los alumnos de CAS del Colegio El Plantío

Why do we collect the paper and cardboard and deposit it in the municipal container?

 

At school, we are collecting and dumping all the paper and cardboard generated

 throughout the week, class by class, staff room by staff room and office by office.

 

For this, at the beginning of the course, we had a cardboard box in each of the classrooms and offices, in which come the notebooks that we will use throughout the course, to which was added the recycling logo and the slogan "Recycling paper or Recycling paper".

 

   

In both buildings, you have two bins of about 100l. capacity each, blue an with the recycle logo. In them, for example, all primary and some  secondary students pour out the paper generated the previous day each day.

 

In the primary building we have two large bins, one in the staff room and one on the first floor. In this way, the classes in each area pour the paper into each of these bins. 

 

 

For secondary school classes, we have put the bins made with the cardboard boxes (here we try to reuse everything) and in the staff room of this building there is another large blue bin. 

Our job is to collect, class by class, each week the paper from the cardboard boxes and pour it into a large plastic bag. From the blue staff trash, we take out the black bag and put another empty one.

 

 

 

 As for the primary building, what we do is take the black bags that are inside both

 large blue bins and put other empty bags.Then we go to the municipal container for 

the collection of Paper and Cardboard and we empty all the bags, we never throw them away.

 With this CAS activity we are getting 

all our colleagues, little by little, to 

deposit only the paper and cardboard 

in these bins and make them see that 

they are contributing to more paper 

being recycled, fewer trees are cut down

 and even less CO 2 and other gases polluting 

our atmosphere and, therefore, contributing

 to global warming.

 

Y12 CAS STUDENTS WORKING TO MAKE A BETTER WORLD 

Why we recycle paper?

 

 In the following reflection I am going describe my experience in one of the activities done for CAS, the recycling of paper and an oral presentation related to my activity. 

 Throughout the year, my working partner and I, with the help of our CAS coordinator, have collected the maximum amount of paper possible in school. To achieve our intentions we went class per class visiting the two buildings of our school. This activity has raised my awareness about the quantity of paper we use daily and the importance of recycling resources. This weekly activity done along with two partners helped me to get the inspiration to perform an informative presentation about recycling, developing and explaining the importance of taking care about the environment. 

My partner and I both got involved and suggested different ideas, taking together various decisions collectively. Once we planned the project, we used a different application named `prezi´ which we didn’t know about before. Through this website, I discovered new creative techniques that I’m sure will help me in the future, capturing the audience attention easily.

 

 By doing this relevant and productive presentation to young students, 






I got very excited and satisfied as I knew the students will learn new things such as the technical processes, environmental concepts and the importance of recycling.



At first, I thought the students wouldn’t like the information and my job in school. 





However, when I started, I got extremely surprised as they interacted with me and listened during all the presentation, making me feel more comfortable. 



I felt very relieved and calmed, as I knew some of the students changed their point of view of recycling. So my intentions were accomplished, as they learned how important recycling is in our lives and I promoted an eco-living lifestyle in the future generation.

 By Carlos Mendieta Ibañez Y12V

Mis primeras reflexiones - First reflections

CAS is something simply out of the ordinary but so special…

The months of November and December 2016 my class, Year 12, spent a couple of hours in a senior living residence called Savia which is 5 minutes away from our school.

Our activity of the residence is included in creativity & service.  We also spend an extra hour each week going to a primary or nursery class and help the little ones or playing with them, that is personally super exciting, it is just something different out of the ordinary daily school routine not only for us but also for the little ones and regarding the living residence for the senior ones, it is really wonderful to see how anxiously they always await our arrival.

In order to complete our creativity requirements we are encharged of decorating the school in special dates such as Halloween or Christmas and organizing activities for other classes, on the other hand activity basically stands for sports and excursions that we are involved in.  It is not only doing sport or helping people is being responsible and aware that you are socially engaged with something, volunteer for it and give as much as you can without expecting anything back.

The past 20th of December we were in a Christmas mood and decided to prepare a couple of Christmas carols and go to sing them at “Savia” by no means we managed to do a perfect performance and we did not, they resulted in being two pretty enjoyable hours in which despite less our bad singing voices we achieved our purpose, a lot of people participated; laughing, clapping hands, dancing or singing which since the beginning we were told that was essential.

We are assigned a special Senior resident which we will be doing activities with every time go over to visit the residence, last time apart from singing we played bingo too, and that is actually our commitment; make them feel happy, once a month they are “the stars” and they love to be so, it is actually a privilege to be able to make them feel better, we try to do our best every time.

I personally believe that too, it was simply awesome to see so many eyes shining joyfully, and these goes back to what we have always being told “We bring life to them, it makes them happy to see so many youth” and at the end of the day we should be the most thankful ones, they help us to grow up so inexplicably in every aspect. Every time I go to visit them they actually make my day, I go back home with a smile, they are actually able to live a big print in your heart. They are the ones that most help you and even if we try to do as much as possible for them, at the end they result in being the ones that do much more for us.

From my point of view CAS turns you into a more responsible and volunteer teenager and it is actually something every school should be willing to involve their students in.

RECICLAJE

El reciclaje en el colegio es una actividad complementaria al CAS, participamos dos alumnos, esa es la cantidad de personas necesaria para el trabajo.

Es una actividad que me gusta mucho, ya que no se trata de recoger “basura”, sino que al fin y al cabo, reciclamos papel y además es una actividad que me gusta por la imagen que nuestro colegio ofrece de compromiso claro con la naturaleza y el medio ambiente.

Este año hemos conseguido cambiar un poco el sistema de recogida del papel, el cual consiste en cajas de cartón, a las cuales les hemos añadido el logo de reciclado, repartidas entre las 12 clases, common room, laboratorio de química, staff room y oficina; después en el pasillo de la 1ª planta se encuentra una gran papelera azul con un signo de reciclaje en la que los compañeros de cada curso van a vaciar el papel recogido en las cajas. Con ello queremos que el resto del alumnado y el profesorado se implique en esta tarea tan importante para nosotros. Después, nosotros recogemos el papel de la gran papelera azul, así como del staff y de la oficina y salimos a tirarlo al contenedor azul que hay en la calle. Este contenedor es sólo para el papel y el cartón. El ayuntamiento de Paterna es el encargado de recogerlo. Esta operación la realizamos en ambos edificios, el de bachillerato y el de primaria. Hay que decir que en el de primaria, dado que son más alumnos, hay dos papeleras grandes azules, una en la primera planta y otra en el staff room. Allí llevan el papel de cada clase y de la biblioteca.

La verdad es que con este sistema hemos podido apreciar un cambio, la papelera del papel suele ser 90% solo papel cosa que antes no era y además reciclamos más kilos, de normal suelen ser unos 10 kilos por semana pero últimamente hemos llegado a 15 o 20kg, lo cual es fantástico ya que indica que gracias a este nuevo sistema, sobre todo en primaria se está empezando a respetar más el reciclado, y eso es algo muy importante para los niños ya que desde un principio les hacemos que vayan tomando nuevas responsabilidades, como puede ser la del “encargado de vaciar la caja”, creando una sociedad un poco más civilizada y comprometida.

En definitiva, me parece una de las actividades más importantes que hacemos en el CAS, se trata de dar un ejemplo a seguir a otros cursos y a los pequeñitos y creo que a base de trabajo, planificación y esfuerzo en la parte de “SERVICIO” estamos satisfaciendo tal tarea.

Gracias a todo los que ponéis de vuestra parte para colaborar, las cosas se construyen poco a poco.

                                                                               By Megan Cantalupi Y12M