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Earth day 2023 - Earth Week 2023



Earth Day is a day that emphasizes the gratitude that humans have towards Earth. At DAIS, the focus of our environmental initiatives has been to take sustainable measures for long-lasting impact. This year's initiatives were focused on reducing the use of plastic and responsibly recycling plastic waste. Beginning with the Recyclathon at the school fete, students worked towards building awareness of environmental degradation caused by plastic waste. Carrying forward this theme, students planned Earth Day 2023 with a solution-based approach with "Reimagine Plastic". The main objective of Reimagine Plastic was to help students understand the increasing plastic pollution and how this plastic waste can be reused and recycled. As with every year, DAIS continued Earth Day as a week-long awareness-building programme highlighting the chosen theme. Pledging to pursue sustainable measures by creating eco-bricks, student volunteers highlighted this solution through various awareness-building campaigns, street plays, in-class demos and a football match!

 

 

Earth Day Choir and Plastic Walkway:

 

 

On the first day, student volunteers created a 'Plastic Walkway' to subtly make everyone aware of the amount of plastic generated all around us. The idea was to see how students would react to this plastic placed around them. Without any prompt, several students started picking up the plastic and throwing it in the plastic recycling box. The message of this activity was eventually explained as the cub captains started the day off with a speech on how plastic is harming the earth and how we can reimagine it. Alongside these activities, the students were also greeted by the Earth Day Choir, singing an original song composed by Sanika Daga and Avantika Kampani, to give a theme to Earth Week.

 

 

Nukkud Natak Street Play:

 

 

Grade 7 students performed Nukkud Natak - or a 'Street Play' - during break time. Through this performance, they highlighted the impacts of plastic on all aspects of the environment including forests, and aquatic and terrestrial life. This bilingual play spread the message "If you can't reuse it, refuse it". The performance was followed by an interactive and thought-provoking session between the performers and the primary students as they offered their own creative solutions to the problems created by plastic.

 

 

Eco-bricking:

 

 

To bring about a tangible impact, we introduced eco-bricking. An eco-brick is "a plastic bottle densely packed with used plastic to create a reusable building block that achieves plastic sequestration". During Earth Week, student volunteers went into classes of grades 1-9 and demonstrated how to make eco-bricks, urging all students to contribute by using plastic waste at home to make eco-bricks. To guide students in making their own eco-bricks, our students created a demo video which was sent to parents as part of the circular seeking their support for this initiative. In the following weeks, these bricks will be collected from students and used to create an eco-brick structure of our very own. The structure will act as a symbol of the important problem that is plastic pollution and a reminder to follow the 3Rs in our daily lives.

 

 

 

Graffiti Banner:

 

The graffiti banner was a school-wide pledge to reduce and recycle plastic. First, our LKG and UKG students made their mark as their handprints created the border of the graffiti wall. These borders were filled in by fingerprints added by our ICSE and IGCSE senior school students while the messages and pledges were made by our Middle and Primary school students. The entire school came together and made a promise as a community - to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic.

 

Football Match:

 

 

For the finale of Earth Week, students organised a football match. Team Plastic and Team Earth competed against each other and were cheered on by their peers. During half-time, the cheerleaders conveyed the message to 'Reimagine Plastic' through a flash mob dance! With a riveting game and an exciting halftime show, the event was the spectacle that tied in all the Earth Week initiatives that ended in a magnificent fashion. Even though the close game was eventually won by Team Plastic, the message of how we need to step up to protect Mother Earth from plastic pollution was clear and evident.

 

 

All in all, Earth Week 2023 took a far different approach to spreading the word of environmentalism by taking action and focusing on building on the students' subconscious to save our planet.

 

 


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