Featured School
A
ll schools should ensure
that they are embedding
green practices in their
school operations, however
Fairgreen International School Dubai
is taking this one step further by
launching six new initiatives for
students and the community to
embrace a new and sustainable
school year. These green initiatives will
continue to encourage everyone in
the school community and beyond,
to help to contribute to protecting
the planet and overall health and
wellbeing.
About Fairgreen
International School
Fairgreen
International
School,
founded by Esol Education, is the
first sustainability-focused school in
Dubai, incorporating sustainability
as an integral part of its educational
programme. A purpose-built campus
that utilizes solar power for all of its
energy needs, recycles all of its water
for agricultural use and implements
waste separation and wind energy
generation.
With a purpose-built campus, the
school follows the Esol Education’s
40-year tradition of establishing
exceptional schools worldwide, with
certified, professional and caring
educators, experienced leadership
and world-class facilities.
Located at The Sustainable City (TSC)
Dubai, Fairgreen International School
is an International Baccalaureate
(IB) continuum school offering the
IB Primary Years Programme (PYP),
Middle Years Programme (MYP),
Diploma Programme (IB DP) and
Career-related Programme (IB CP).
Fairgreen & Etuix
Fairgreen will be the first school in
the world to partner with sustainable
and
eco-friendly
fashion
bag
designers Etuix. Etuix is a Dubai based
organisation that reuses and recycles
old banner ads from the roads of Dubai
and repurposes them into everyday
bags. Etuix has designed and will be
making school bags for all students
from September, this will also include,
laptop bags, book bags, small and
large backpacks and P.E. bags.
Class Time
Fairgreen & Simply Bottles
Fairgreen will be running a plastic
collection programme on the campus.
While they are a single-use plastic-free
campus, they are asking students and
teachers to bring in any water bottles,
milk bottles etc. from home and put
them into one of the student-designed
recycling bins.
These are then donated to Simply
Bottles who in turn, work to repurpose
this plastic into t-shirts that can be
worn. It takes about three plastic
bottles to create one t-shirt, so we will
be collecting all year.
The Fairgreen Teacher and
student allotment
Fairgreen is introducing an after-school
activity where teachers and students
can cultivate and nurture their crops
in an allotment patch set up on the
school campus. The teachers have
taken it upon themselves to learn how
to grow crops and harvest produce
that can then be shared with the
school and wider community.
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