School Partnership Programmes

Mainstreaming the topic of sustainability into the Hong Kong primary school education environment with a whole-school approach.

Programme highlights:

• A wide variety of activities including student learning activities, teacher training workshops and school-based conservation action
• Integrate sustainability into the school-based curriculum and school development plan

 
Project period: February 2016-January 2019
Project funder: Quality Education Fund (QEF)
Number of partner schools involved: 12 primary schools
 

 

Reducing the school campus water footprint, from student consumption to school policies

Programme highlights:

• Educational mass game and campus water audit by students
• Water flow controller installation in school campuses

Project period: April 2017-March 2018
Project funder: Coca-Cola Foundation
Number of partner schools involved: 15 primary schools

Using the study of marine plankton, students build up their knowledge of biodiversity and marine conservation issues.
 
Programme highlights:

• Art creation (for primary schools)
• Students act as citizen scientists to conduct district-based plankton surveys (for secondary schools)
• Campus and community roadshow exhibition

 
Project period: December 2016-November 2018
Project funder: Environment and Conservation Fund and the Environmental Campaign Committee
Number of schools involved: 10 primary schools and 10 secondary schools
 
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With the help of students, the programme traces how land-based litter enters the sea through storm drains and rivers using GPS tracking devices and suggests methods to government for reducing marine litter
 
Unique elements:

• Citizen Science
• GPS tracker production and application
• E-STEM
• Tracking map production using GPS

 
Project period: November 2016-April 2018
Project funder: Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF)
Number of schools involved: 11 secondary schools
 
 

The programme lets students understand the status, and challenges, of Hong Kong’s marine ecosystem and the importance of marine protected areas, empowering teachers to integrate marine conservation issues into the school curriculum
 
Programme highlights:

• Interactive talk with drama elements
• Face-to-face connection with local fishermen

 
Project period: June 2016-August 2018
Project funder: Swire Trust
Number of schools involved: 10 secondary schools
 
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