Project One: Dustbin Project

Objective: To clean our environment and promote healthy clean environmental practices.  To recycle material into re-usable products.

Action plan:  Create beautiful and numerous opportunities to keep the school grounds clean by recycling oil drums into garbage drums. Conveying the message of our dying planets plea to stop pollution through creative arts.

Here is how we applied our skills in our curriculum:

Arts & Culture:

• Design & create. E.g. create a dustbin that conveys the plea of our dying planet.

Mathematical literacy:

• Design & Planning. E.g. Build a race car of recycled material.

Life science:

• Respiration. E.g. Build a model of the human lungs out of recycled material to explain breathing.

Business Studies:

• Products.  Create a product out of recycled material that is usable in everyday life.  The learners also had to advertise their various products.

Thanks to:

• Mrs. Bothma for helping us save drums.

• Columbus for sponsoring the oil drums for a good cause.

Project 1: Breast Cancer Awareness

Objective: Increasing awareness of global diseases like breast cancer

Action plan: The Eco-committee will sell pink ribbons at school to create awareness of breast cancer and the dangers of this disease.  This project will also serve as a fundraising initiative for Steelcrest High Schools Eco-projects.

Here is how we applied our skills in our curriculum:

English:

• The learners wrote an essay about breast cancer and the dangers this disease can have for females and males. The learners will use statistics to prove their statements.

Project 1: “Local Is Lekker” Arbor week

Objective: Increasing biodiversity

Action plan: Each team plants an indigenous tree during arbor week to increase bio diversity and to beautify the school environment.

Here is how we applied our skills in our curriculum:

Life Science:

• Tree identification.  The identification of different trees and plants according to specific characteristics E.g.  According to the leaves and bark of the tree.

Natural Sciences:

• Water retaining.  To identify the water retaining capacity of different types of soil E.g. the difference between loam, sand and clay soil.

Geography:

• Water storage.  The different types of water storage in South Africa and ways of saving water.

• See attached projects.

 Thanks to:

• Mr.  Wally and Erena Neubert for their assistance in identifying plants and trees at Steelcrest HighSchool.

• Middelburg municipality and Samancor for donation of indigenous trees.

Project 2: Adopting animals at Loskop

Objective:  To adopt and nurture endangered animals at the Loskop Nature Reserve.

Action plan: The adoption of a Black footed cat and a hornbill.  The breeding of endangered animals because they do not breed in the wild anymore.

Thanks to:

• Delicia Gum that runs the breeding program at Loskop Nature Reserve.

• Anglo for sponsoring enclosures for the animals.

Related projects:

Lion observation

On the drama camp the learners had the opportunity to observe lions and crocodiles in their enclosures.  The learners also had the opportunity to learn about the raising of lion cubs.

Thanks to:

• The hospitality of the Bonamanzi team.

Project 2:  Teenage pregnancy awareness

Objective: To create awareness of teenage pregnancy and the negative effects it can have on the future of teenage learners. Teenage pregnancy is a global problem that can cause other social problems to arise from society E.g. poverty.

Action plan: The learners are going to make posters that address the social issue of teenage pregnancy.  The posters will be distributed amongst local schools for awareness purposes

THEME: Local and Global Issues

THEME: Nature and Biodiversity

Project 1: Vegetable Garden

Objective: To produce more organic food. Using compost heaps, bio-pest controlled organic fertilizers. Access to fresh vegetables that can be used as a resource for feeding scheme purposes.

Action plan: Plant a garden and use organic fertilizer and compost as well as bio-pest controlee to produce healthy vegetables to be used as ingredients in food sold twice a week from the top kitchen.

Curriculum:

Life Science

• Use garden to observe various aspects of nature e.g. Food chains.

• Use the produce for studies on cellular level e.g. Plant Cell Structure

Mathematical Literacy

• Creating a budget e.g. Calculating loss & Profit

• Surface Area & Volume e.g. Packaging & planting Space

• See attached projects

Afrikaans

• Writing an essay e.g.  The advantages of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and healthy eating habits

• See attached projects

Thanks to:

• Mrs. Kearns for this growing brainchild.

• National Lottery Fund as well as Middelburg Rotary for the amazing infrastructure.

• Mrs. Porter the healthy cooking and amazing creative food.

Project 1: Healthy Food sales

Project 2:  Healthy food sales

Objective:  The learners need to have more regular access the healthy food as opposed to tuck-shop snakes.  Twice a week a healthy alternative is sold from the top kitchen.

Action plan:  To provide healthy food options to the learners.  These options are sold at the kitchen twice a week.

Curriculum:

Consumer Studies

• Cooking. Use the fresh produce to prepare lovely and healthy food.

Thanks to:

• Mrs. Kearns for this growing brainchild.

• National Lottery Fund as well as Middelburg Rotary for the amazing infrastructure.

• Mrs. Porter the healthy cooking and amazing creative food.

Project 1: Book Donations

Objective: The development and progression of local education.

Action plan:  Steelcrest donated all the old text books to a local school that is constantly overseen by the government in the provision of education material and resources.

Thanks to:

• Mr. Lukas Erasmus for helping us distributing the text books to less fortunate schools.

Project 2: Community charity walk

Objective: The collection of necessities like food and blankets that was donated to charity organizations that help the less fortunat

Thanks to:

Twizzas for sponsoring the Community Charity walk.

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Related Projects

Cape Town Drama Tour

The drama learners visited Cape Town to take part in the Kyknet talent competition. While there the learners visited the local heritage sites like the Castle of Good Hope as well as one of the biggest theatres in the world.

Gataway Expo

The tourism learners spent to the Getaway expo in Johannesburg.  They spent the day learning about the tourism industry of South Africa and the world.  SADC countries were represented as well as different cultural groups from various tourism destinations.

Project 3:  Safety of the school

Objective: To provide a more safe and secure learning environment to the learners and the staff of our school.

Action plan:  Replacing the old fence with a new and better one.  Organizing the public transport of the learners in such a way to maximize their safety before and after school.

THEME: Community and Heritage