Global Issues Earth Week

Global Issues Earth Week

    Last week was yet again another very succsessful week for the Global Issues Club as they ended Earth week with some prizes for our students. Teusday and Wednesdays guest speakers gave excellent presentation on or city's plans to create a greener and more environmental city during the upcoming years for our growing population. One plan they have, is to turn compost into a emission free and non-pollutant gas for our vehicles. They are also planning to put compost bins in every school in Surrey! Teusday's energy conservation day for Sulli was perfectly acheived as half of the lights in the school were shut off to conserve some electricity. Wednesday's walk to school day went smoothly as ever, when students walked the hill or down the block to get to school in an evironmentaly friendly way. Some skateboraded, longboarded, and biked to school. It was really great to see all those students working towards a way to help out our environment. Thursday however was the real ice breaker as students lined up with their reusable water bottles and containers for their lunches to get a free cone of ice cream! It worked out wonderfully because the students were not polluting by using plastic wraps or foil for rheir lunches and instead using reausable containers. On the last day during morning announcements, all of the classes were shown a video on how much waste is collected on just the beaches of our earth. It showed how a group of dedictaed environmentalists go every year to some of these beaches and 'comb' the coast for plastic waste and garbage that was left on or reached the beaches through the ocean. It was sad to see how much waste we could produce but if we worked together like the environmentalists in the video we could collect as much waste as they did. In fact, one of our teachers has a son who works with his wife to clean these beaches in that video. The link can be found below. Friday, also included a raffle draw for the winners of some prizes who helped out during earth week.

     The Global Issues club showed us that Earth Day should not just be one day but everyday. It was really amazing to see what we could do if we worked together as a community so just remember this: everyday is Earth Day.

'Combing the Coast 2013: Rugged Point Provincial Park':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws1dbS91KeI

Also, check out this video from the City of Surrey on recycling and waste collection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b1cPUCOQwA

 

    

Multicultural Week: Food Day

        Multicultural Week: Food Day

      Last week was multicultural week and it was an amazing week yet again this year as the students played games, watched performances, and ate different foods. The different dishes served were amazing on foods day which was on Wednesday, at lunchtime. There were some samosas and butter chicken. I bought some myself and it tasted delicious. A great recipe for the butter chicken is below:

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/141169/easy-indian-butter-chicken

    It was a really amazing week overall and the food was one of the best parts.

Global Issues Earth Week

             Global Issues Earth Week

     Earth week is coming up this week for  Sulli and Global Issues will be busy busy busy with preparations for the four days! Teusday and wednesday will be offering a an environmental talk with a guest speaker in the library at lunch. Teusday will also include an energy conservation day for the school with prizes in the library at lunch. The day after will be walk to school wednesday and there will be raffles given out. Prizes will be given out at lunch. Thursday will be the famous litterless ice cream lunch where the students bring their lunch in a plastic reusable container and receive a free ice cream! A video on a beach clean-up will be shown in the library as well. On the final day this week there will a plastic bottle display in the hub to show how much plastic we use. During the entire week however there will be a photo challenge for students to take pictures of you or your friends acting for Earth Week.  The photos can be tweeted out using #sulliacts with a sweet treat given to the winners in period 4. It will be a fun week for sure!

Costa Rica

                       Costa Rica

  In a recent article, it was mentioned that some students from Sulli had gone on an extravagant trip to Costa Rica over the break! During my last post I only mentioned a small adventure they had but here are some photos of many more!

A monkey carrying her child on her back.

         Ziplining through the jungles!

                Chillin' at the falls!

  Single file everybody, we're going on an adventure!     

This was one picture they took at the airport.

This was the waterfall that they all went swimming at.

They had a lot of fun camping out as well!

             Time to feed the gators!

     This trip definetly looked worth the plane ride, beacuse we all know how exausting those are! Everyone had a lot of fun and if course, they would love to do it again.

Report Cards

                                                                                               Report Cards

         It is time for report cards once again and the teachers and students are getting prepared to hand in missing assignments, prepare final marks, and test the student like crazy! It's because the report cards will be issued on April 30th, that there are going to be a few busy weeks at school. A lot of the students are studying and prepping themselves for the tests and final marks which will either give them a boost in their allowance, or get them a grounded for a week. The teachers however will be much busier with marking the students papers, assignments, and tests, only to have to add it all up and decide their grade. For students, it's a lot easier to just study and memorize for their upcoming tests and maybe work a little more to hand assignments in, but the pressure can be a bit difficult. I mean, it's only report right? No, actually this report card can affect your final grade in the course your taking so it's time to grab some texbooks and start now. Better late, than never! For classes such as physical education where you can grade yourself for your efforts and learning level, it can be easier on some students but many of them can tend to forget that the teachers can still disagree with what you choose. Those classes mostly teach you how to take leadership and try to be proactive in many different ways. They teach you how to learn and how to take responsibility. So no, it doesn't make it easier when you grade yourself. Report cards are really not that stressful to deal with though, and  I think after this we can take a small breather.

Earth Week at Sulli!

  Earth Week at Sulli!

     Coming up this month, the Global Issues has organized a fun week for the students here at Sulli to help pitch in and help out the environment for Earth Day! Earth week will be a fun active week full of different events the student can participate in. Starting on Tuesday, April 22nd, each day of the week will be dedicated to a specific event that will inform the students about the problems in our environment. Tuesday will start off with a guest speaker in the library at lunch for the first and second day, as well as a bottled water campaign introduced with a 10 minute video which will be shown to the students. Wednesday, will promote an Energy Conservation Day, where the school will shut off as many lights as possible to conserve energy. On the third day, students will be informed on Animal Issues and endangered species as well as a new hunting licence that has been passed by the government. Thursday will also host a fun event in the cafeteria for the students to participate in. Each student will be encouraged to bring in a water bottle and a litterless lunch and recieve a cone if free ice cream from the Global Issues Members. Finally, Friday will be focused mainly on weekly contests and prizes to ve given out as well as the three R's and compost! Throughout the week, students will be given raffle tickets if they are seen walking to school, ecery day of the week. There will be a draw and prizes will be dustributes to the lucky students. There is also a photo contest to enter. Students can take pictures of each other or themselves recycling, composting, or reusing materials throughout the week to create a mural. It will be a fun week for sure! This post will be updated as soon as new changes are made or if new information is recieved.

Spring Breakers!

       Spring Breakers!

      It's back to school after a wonderful spring break which I am sure everybody at Sulli enjoyed, but sadly the relaxing two weeks has finally come to an end. Students had been talking about many of their adventures on some trips during the break and I luckily got the chance to interview some of them. A few teachers at Sulli had been in charge of some school-organised trips. One was to sunny Costa-Rica, and the other to the place everyone loves: England.  I interviewed some students and found out a few interesting things they did on their trip. One student told me about a fun adventure they had to stonehenge during their trip to England. They were able to go inside it and touch the huge stones during a ceremony that was erformed a few thousand years ago to celebrate the earth and peace on it. The ceremony was held during the Spring Equinox as well. Another student, who wen ton the trip to Costa-Rica, told me about a school they had the chance to visit and how they were able to meet and help out the students there. After that they visited a waterfall which they were able to go swimming through. He said that the water was absolutely freezing and how him and his friends would try to see who could last the longest underneath the freezing water! It could be described as somewhat large surrounded by many trees, which were covered in thick, hanging vines. After learning about those amazingly fun trips, I interviewed some other students who had some adventures of their own. One girl talked about her week-long trip to three different states: California, Nevada, and Arizona! She said that the most fun she had, was when she visited the Grand Canyon, but the Hoover Dam and the walk along the Vegas Strip were none-the-less fun. One of my friends had also gone on a trip to Hawaii for two weeks where he had loads of fun. He talked about his favorite adventure, which was boogie-boarding on 11 ft waves at Bellows Beach. Before the trip, he was so excited that he counted down the days. There are many more fun stories where those came from, but many students just relaxed at home sleeping, watching TV, or playing video games. It was overall a fun, relaxing two weeks which everybody enjoyed.