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EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GRANT RECIPIENTS
School Name Project Name
and Division
Brock-Corydon
School
(Winnipeg)
Crocus Plains
Regional
Secondary
School
Winnipeg:
A Diamond in the
Rough?
Children’s Water
Festival
(Brandon)
École
Beausejour
Early Years
Renewal Project
(Sunrise)
Description
Students will choose various cultural, entertainment and
environmental ventures to determine how decisions are
made and what sustainable factors are considered.
They understand as citizens of the city they have an
important role to play.
Grade 4 students in the school division will learn about
the importance of water from stations set up outside by
Grade 12 students from Crocus Plains school,
professionals and the community. Topics include
conservation and protection, water science and
technology, water health and safety and water and
society.
School-yard naturalization including composting,
vegetable gardens, habitat development including
flower beds, native grasses, bird feeders with outdoor
learning connected to curriculum. Harvesting
vegetables to make soup as a celebration.
A continuation of the gardening project begun last year
which developed an outdoor classroom for naturebased education. Addition this year of trees and shrubs
and four themed vegetable gardens based on harvest
times.
École James
Nisbet
School
(Seven Oaks)
The James Nisbet
Learning Garden
École La
Verendrye
(Winnipeg)
“A Better
Tomorrow”
(Un Avenir
Meilleur)
Students from nursery to Grade 6 will incorporate an
ESD theme in order to write and publish a book based
on the three pillars of ESD.
École St.
Eustache
(Prairie Spirit)
Four Seasons
Classroom
The goal is to have students and the community
reconnect with nature through environmental studies by
creating an outdoor classroom for use in all four
seasons.
Edmund
Partridge
Community
School
(Seven Oaks)
School Community
Garden as an
Outdoor
Classroom
The students and community will develop four raised
garden beds to grow food and connect to healthy
eating. Other plants will be used for school yard
naturalization.
Grass River
Sustainability
Project
The colony school yard will be transformed from a field
to a space for physical and outdoor education. A
greenhouse project will be started to reduce the amount
of plants needing to be purchased each year and school
yard naturalization and habitat development will occur.
Grass River
Colony School
(Turtle River)
....2
-2Nelson
McIntyre
Collegiate
(Louis Riel)
Niji Mahkwa
(Winnipeg)
Oak Lake
Community
School
(Fort la
Bosse)
Sawdust Recovery
Project
Changing Our World
Begins at Home
Environmental
Citizenship-Lessons for a
Sustainable Future
Students in geography and industrial arts will
collaborate to prevent the expense and waste of
sawdust being taken to a landfill by recovering
sawdust from the woods lab to make a viable
product for fireplaces and firepits.
Incorporating art, social studies and aboriginal
perspectives, students will demonstrate their
understanding of sustainability through painting
and collage. The project will be based on the
medicine wheel and the elements of earth, wind,
water and fire.
The school will have a theme for the year on
Environmental Citizenship. The theme will be
developed by projects and activities that explore
civic responsibility, local and global concerns and
environmental stewardship.
Students collaborated on a school yard
Heritage
naturalization project including community space,
Greenspace/Outdoor
memorial garden, a living classroom for teaching
Classroom
and learning, and space for reflection and
relaxation.
Rivers
Students and community will create a garden that
Elementary
Rivers Elementary School celebrates their place in a rural community, learn
School
Community Garden
appreciation of their agricultural heritage and
(Rolling River)
share their produce with the community.
Sisler High
Sisler students are planning a sustainability
School
Sisler’s Annual
conference where a variety of environmental
Sustainability Conference issues are identified; future school goals will be
(Winnipeg)
established to address them.
This project initiated by community is now
Strathcona
partnering with the school to create an ecological
Community
and inviting setting for community children and
School
Artful Learning Garden
adults to foster health. They will create vegetable
gardens, learn about forest foods, nutrition,
(Winnipeg)
environmental restoration, beautification and
recreation.
Valleyview
The students will create a 10-foot medicine wheel
Centennial
Outdoor Medicine Wheel learning ground to incorporate traditional herbs
School
Learning Grounds
and teachings. Planters will be developed as
(Brandon)
examples of sustainable farming.
Pinawa
Secondary
School
(Whiteshell)