2011 School Magazine

GECO Throughout the year, the dedicated members of the Grammar Environmental and Conservation Organisation have met on Thursday lunchtimes to discuss ideas and initiatives aimed at reducing our impact on the environment. We started off the year

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with a recycling box competition, in which each House Group was challenged to decorate a box to be used for recycling scrap paper, using no 'new' materials. This competition, judged by Mr Dale, was won by Year 8 Hirschfeld whose entry was an amazing Giraffe creation. We have been continuing to collect and recycle old mobile phones through an initiative with Mobile Muster, and have also collected many used ink cartridges. in August we launched a new initiative called the SEAL Project, or Save Endangered Animal Life. Each House was asked to select an endangered animal to support for the remainder of the year. On Open Day, we kick-started this initiative with donation boxes for each House. We also continued the tradition of the 'message tree'. Staff, students and visitors alike were invited to write their own messages and tips for helping to save the environment on a leaf or flower and pin it onto the tree. We sold toffee, cakes and elderflower cordial, the proceeds of which went towards the SEAL initiative. We gave out sunflower, chili and snow pea seeds to visitors to plant in their own gardens, to allow people to get closer to the environment by getting first hand experience of growing and nurturing plants

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I Sophia Wyatt (12W), GECO Captain) I

in December this year, forty-two Year 12 Grammar girls will e travelling to Malaysian Borneo with Antipodeans Abroad. Th tr'p will involve staying in the Ukum Longhouses, a village located on the Engkari River in Sarawak and accessible only via longboat, where the girls will be helping to build a kindergarten for the village children The kindergarten will enable the children to be taught Malay before they are sent to school, vastly improving the quality of the r education In order to raise money for the project the girls organised a Green Week in Term 11 this year during which a bake stall was held d green ribbons were sold. Students were also able to donate an write their names on cardboard orangutans, which were all joined together in a chain The week CUIminated in A Concert on the Green showcasing many of Grammar's talented musicians, concluding with the dropp'rig of the orangutan chain which reached all the way from the top level of the CLC to the bottom. The girls showed once again that they can ach eve whatever they set their minds to. As the departure ate creeps ever closer all forty-two girls are getting excited about t e huge adventure awaiting them

Save the Children The club supporting Save the Children at BGGS is now In its second year. Girls of all year levels participated in our activities. Teachers lent us their baby photos for our first fundraiser, the Guess your Teacher competition. The prize consisted of a 2kg chocolate bunny, which was won by a Year 10 student. in Term 11 we dec!ded to run a chocolate bake stall for the School, which was

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very successful and involved all the members of the club. More baked goods were sold on Open Day presented with STC stickers. The popular 'Master Chef' raffle was also part of the effort, following last year's tradition Our club has had a very busy and successful year and all money raised will go towards providing an enhanced educational environment and better health care for indigenous students I Rosemarie Hanlon (11E) and Is abella Eiszele (110) I

liessica PUTdy (12H) and lessica Watson 02M) I