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SEAMEO-Japan ESD Award

Submission Form of 2017 SEAMEO-Japan ESD Award Theme: Improving Health and Nutrition

The last day for submission of entries: 5 September 2017

• To participate in the 2017 SEAMEO-Japan ESD Award, please submit the information of your school’s project/programme on “Improving Health and Nutrition” by using this Submission Form.

• The digital format of this Submission Form can be downloaded from the SEAMEO website: www.seameo.org or requested by sending an email to: seameojapan.award@seameo.org.

• The guidelines for submission of entries and judging criteria are detailed in page 8-10 of this document.

• Schools must ensure that the SEAMEO Secretariat receives their entries by Tuesday 5 September 2017.

• More information, please contact the SEAMEO Secretariat, Bangkok (Telephone number: +66-2391-0144, Fax number: +66-2381-2587 and Email address: seameojapan.award@seameo.org)

PART I: Details of Your School

1. Name of your school: SEKOLAH JENIS KEBANGSAAN TAMIL SUNGAI ARA

2. Full address: SJKT SUNGAI ARA, Lorong Kenari 1, Taman Desaria, Bayan Lepas, Pulau Pinang,

Malaysia

3. Postcode: 11900 4. Country: Malaysia

5. School’s telephone number (country code+city code+telephone number): 6046461326

6. School’s fax number (country code+city code+fax number): 6046461326

7. School’s email Address: pbd3032@jpnpp.edu.my

8. Name of the Head Master/Principal/School Director: Mr Sangga Sinanayah

9. Name of the Teacher Coordinator: Mr Sangga Sinanayah

10. Email address of the Coordinator: sangga_sinnayah@yahoo.com

11. School website (if available): NIL

12. Educational level : GRADE1-6 (LOWER AND UPPER PRIMARY)

13. Total number of teachers in your school: Teachers

14. Total number of students in your school: Students

15. Approximately number of teachers participated in planning and implementing this school’s

programme for improving health and nutrition: 10 Teachers

16. Approximate number of students participated in planning and implementing this school’s

programme for improving health and nutrition: 140 Students

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PART II: Information about the School’s Programme

The information of part II from no.1 to 13 should be no longer than nine (9) pages long of A4 in

total. The information should be written in Times New Roman font, 11-12 point size.

1. Title of the school’s programme

GREEN REVOLUTION

2. Summary of the programme

The green revolution’s pilot project has been started in January 2016. Eventually, this project has

great welcome and support from the school community. Hence, we need to continue this project

with added activities for the year of 2017. We’ve started this project with three main categories; i.

Green canteen; ii. Green teaching and learning iii. Environment sustainability. Each category

carries out different activities which focus on sustainability of healthy living and green

environment.

In our first category, we encourage school kids to eat healthy and nutritional food. Due to that, our

school strictly prohibited the selling of process food (hot dog, dry noodles, burger, etc) in the

school canteen. Besides that, all children only allowed to bring their food in an environmentally

friendly container or biodegradable wrapper. Moreover, fast food like pizza, KFC and Mc Donald

strictly not allowed in any school parties or functions. These rules were an eye-opener to both kids

and parents on how to cultivate healthy eating lifestyle in their daily food preparation menu.

Next category is to transform teaching and learning process more effective way with the paperless

concept. Currently, Malaysian Education Department had introduced FrogAsia teaching and

learning in school, our school took an initiative to utilize this online program widely in daily

teaching tasks. In addition to that, we’ve integrated the FrogAsia into our lesson plan where

teachers will upload all worksheets in online system and evaluate it regularly. Whereas, students

can complete given task thru online and get remarks and rewards from their education specialist at

any time. Thru this program we’ve reduced paper wastage and make student realize how important

to preserve nature for future generation. All student from lower and upper primary had completed

approximately 9000 work sheets from January until August 2017.

Our final category is to spread the joy of green living to our school community as well as the

neighborhood. Few highlighted activities were done in this category such as, fixing solar lamp post

in school campus which was sponsored by political party. Then planting many plants around school

campus and nearby open land to stop waste thrown by the pedestrian. Additionally, we did waste

management by recycling, reuse and reduce all school wastes. We’ve encouraged parents, students

and teachers to collect and gather waste material and transform it for daily activities such as plastic

flower pot, rubbish bin, teaching aid material etc. We did sell some waste material and used the

money for the green program. Every day we collected waste foods from school canteen and

students home then buried it to make a compost bin for planting purpose. This is good source of

nutrient for plants.

In conclusion, this green revolution project has gained great impact on our school community.

Students, teachers, parents, and stakeholders have awareness on Healthy and green living lifestyle

and commitment towards environment preservation for future generation.

3. Background information or reasons why the school created this programme

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This project was created to give green living awareness to school community and neighborhood. The

school surrounded by many trees and empty lands. Most of the time, people in school neighborhood

throw rubbish on this empty land. So, we planned and cleaned this land and decorated with some

decorative plants which were contributed by MPPP (Penang Government Council) as our pioneer

activity. We did install a sign board for not throwing rubbish in that empty land to preserve the fertility

of that land. The next is our school kids eating habits in their daily life. After some analysis among

school children and parents we found out eating balance and healthy food awareness greatly lacks in

our school community. In addition to that plastic bag usage becomes common for our school students

as well. So, we decided to increase an awareness on healthy lifestyle among our school kids and

community. Eventually, we encourage student to bring nutrition value food and modified school

canteen meal preparation menu to serve healthy and balance nutrients food for students. In addition to

that, we also prohibited plastic usage in school campus and substitute with biodegradable bags. We

didn’t encourage students to distribute junk food and process food for any parties organized at school

campus. Other than that, to reduce and conserve paper we’ve converted teaching and learning system

from conventional method to online system uses FrogAsia. We did reduced and conserved electrical

energy by fixing solar panel lamp post around school campus. We found emphasize healthy and green

living practice leads to positive changes in our school environment as well as students, teachers and

parents attitude .

4. Objectives/goals of the programme

I. To cultivate green environment among school community.

II. To create an awareness on healthy eating habits

III. To sustain environment friendly school community.

5. Period of the time when the programme was/has been started

January 2017-December 2017

6. Activities (Actions and strategies of implementation)

1. Discussion with all school teachers regarding this green revolution project. (planning for

lesson plan integration, sustainable activities, teacher’s strength and knowledge, parents’

attraction force etc.)

2. Seeking for support and collaboration from school stakeholder, NGOs’ and government

institution.

3. Meeting with parents to give brief explanation about the project.

4. Drafting detailed action plan to perform this project precisely.

5. Identifying area in school compound which need serious attention.

6. Developing related idea to category planned activities.

7. Evaluate the implementation of green revolution project for school kids.

8. Collecting resources.

9. Develop task force group according to sub projects.

10. Action plan development.

11. Meeting with sponsor and school teacher’s council as a support.

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7. Teaching and learning approaches that the school applies for teaching “Improving Health and

Nutrition”

We have organized few activities and integrate Improving Health and Nutrition concept in daily

teaching and learning approaches.

i. Health food slide presentation during healthy studies

ii. Encourage students to bring healthy foods.

iii. Plastic wrapper or polystyrene food wrappers strictly not allowed to bring inside school

campus.

iv. Healthy and nutrient value food mini exhibition

v. Developing vegetable and herbal garden in school compound as extra co-curricular

activities.

vi. Integrated lesson plan to encourage health and nutrition concept in teaching tasks.

8. Related activities that the school have contributed to the community and shared school

practices to the community.

1. Planting some easy growing vegetables (green leave, cucumber, carrot, tomato) in school

compound then shared harvested vegetable with school community.

2. Distributed biodegradable bag for community to reduce plastic bag usage.

3. Making natural fertilizer from food waste which was collected from school community and

teach them to practice at home.

4. Thought school community on small scale organic fertilizer making process.

5. Joining hand with next door public park community(Taman Jajar) to clean the park and plant

some trees.

6. Discard rubbish thrown on nearby river bank to decrease BOD(Biochemical oxygen Demand)

level.

7. Organized healthy eating and living campaign in school compound.

9. Engagement of partners (Please provide the name of your partners in this programme and

their roles/contributions)

Name of Partners Roles and Contributions

MPPP(Penang Government Council) Organize green camp and teach how to upgrade green

lifestyle.

Penang Green Council Contribute plants and fertilizer to plant around school

compound

Sungai Ara Environment Council Clean the school compound to reduce pollution

University Science Malaysis(Biology

Department)

Sponsor and guide on Fig tree plantation

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10. Resources used for implementation

1.Plants seeds from Penang green council for mini garden development.

2.Customised daily teaching lesson plan for teachers.

3. Recycle materials collection center.

4.Flower pot and panting utensils for outdoor planting project.

5. Fig seeds and plants from biology department, USM(Science University Malaysia)

11. Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms and summary of results

Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms:

1. Work routine schedule for green garden

Teacher in charge always check and instruct students to carry out their task according to

given schedule.

2. School canteen meal menu approval

Teacher in charge must get written approval weekly from principal before proceeding with

canteen in charge person for daily meal preparation. Daily meal chart pasted in school notice

board for students and parent’s attention.

3. Waste material collection center.

This collection mainly in-charge by parents and assist by teachers. There is log book to

record all collected material from public and students. They will category waste materials for

recyle, reuse or send to scrap station.

4. Organic fertilizer production department.

Two teachers and few parents in-charge of this section. They will instruct students to collect

all type of food waste and gather in designated tank for further use. This need to be done

daily to avoid attraction of flies on waste foods.

Summary of results:

1. School looks clean and green.

2. Students enjoy healthy meal and practice it daily.

3. All waste material used more wisely and efficient segregation done on every collected waste.

4. Able to produce organic fertilizer and reduce chemical waste in school environment.

5. The school become very environment friendly.

6. Engagement of many people from school community and neighborhood.

12. Achievement from the school’s health and nutrition programme

1. Zero plastic bags waste in school compound.

2. Healthy parties and function with natural food.

3. Zero processed food meal for students during school hours and continue at home.

4. No junk food and eat more fruits and vegetables.

5. Self- plant vegetable harvesting.

6. Waste material converted into useful teaching resources.

7. Food wasted conversion into organic fertilizer.

8. Green environment enhancement inside and outside school campus.

9. Importance of green environment preservation awareness among school community and

neighborhood.

10. Parents alerted with healthy living importance by kids.

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13. Benefits/Impacts/ positive outcomes of the programme to students, school and the wider

community

1. We’ve created plastic free compound in our school niche area.

2. Awareness created to plant organic vegetable to lead healthy lifestyle.

3. Parties and function without junk food, processed food and fast food become norm of our

school.

4. Consuming balance diet meal become ultimate important for every child and parent either at

school or home.

5. 80% teaching and learning system using paperless concept.

6. Conserving solar power to reduce wastage of electrical energy.

7. More tree planting as a teacher’s day gift.

8. Preserving waste free environment become a goal among school community.

9. Sustainability of green living is a must for every individual in this earth.

14. Plan for sustainability and plan for the future

Plan for sustainability:

1. Healthy meal preparation become a norm in school.

2. Students has awareness on every food item they eat.

3. Parents get involve and practice to prepare nutrition rich food for their kids.

4. A teacher a tree planting project.

5. Reduce, reuse and recycle practice cultivation.

6. Transforming waste into useful product.

7. Paperless teaching concept.

Plan for the future:

1. To clean river nearby school compound.

2. Conserve more electrical energy by install more solar panel lamp.

3. Engage more neighborhood community in green activities.

4. Produce own organic fertilizer from food waste collected from student’s house and school

canteen.

15. List of supporting documents (Maximum of 5 documents) such as a copy of the school

operational plan or school management plan, action plan, learning/ teaching materials, lesson

plans, samples of student worksheet, manuals, etc.

If the supporting documents are in the local language, please provide a brief description in English

language.

Document 1) Action plan 2017: Green revolution SJKTSA

Document 2) Integrated Lesson plan

Document 3) Tactical Plan 2017-Green Revolution

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16. Photos related to the activity/programme (Maximum of 5 photos with captions in English)

Photo 1

(Healthy and nutritional food served on banana leaf during(Biodegradable food wrapper) festive

season.)

Photo 2

Waste Materials collection center. This collection center always inspect by teacher and few parents.

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Photo 3

Inspection officers from Penang Green Council to evaluate Green garden development.

Photo 4

Students were engaged with Frog Play for teaching and learning session)

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Photo 5

(Organic fertilizer making process)

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