Commended

Climate Change

submitted by St Benedict College Middle School Kirkop : Anthea Mamo  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school media, website
filed under Campaigning video Video Clips
awarded: Commended

I used 2 toy models … a polar bear and an arctic fox … which are both endangered. I wanted to create this video so that I could raise awareness about climate change and the effect our actions are leaving on nature. The background song is a song about climate change by One Republic. It is a song that is as if the world is speaking. The water had food coloring which is non-toxic and it was then used to water our plants, so no water was wasted. To shoot this video I had some help with setting up the camera and editing the video. The original video was 2.75 hours long and in the final video all the footage is present, it is just speeded up. The polar bear and the arctic fox fell from the ice as soon as it started melting … making us realize the imminence of the situation. We then turned on a fan to try to simulate weather in the arctic. Then we used a torch to simulate days and time passing by … the situation remaining unnoticed … the ice melting. In the reflection of the ice and water, one can see us moving and going on with our day. This symbolizes our actions being reflected on nature … our same actions which are destructing the environment.  



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LITTERally no butts about it

submitted by SIC Luqa Primary : Cicely Scerri  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Campaigning video Video Clips
awarded: Commended

This is Luqa Primary’s project for the litterless campaign. It involved active collaboration between our Year 6 classes, the EkoSkola Team the Pupil’s Council, the local Parish and the Luqa Local Council. The objective is to reduce the litter caused by the incorrect disposal of cigarette butts. Throughout this year the children learnt more about the dangers that cigarette butts pose not only to the environment but also to our body. During a clean up activity, we scouted the areas surrounding our school to identify specific places where there was a considerable amount of cigarette butts and we used the allocated funds to buy a number of outdoor ashtrays that will be installed in these designated areas. This will reduce the amount of cigarette butts in the soil and on the pavements. The objective of the video is to raise awareness about this issue with the public .  



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What can we do to reduce plastic pollution?

submitted by Lija Balzan Iklin Primay : Maya Caruana  for 7-10
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Campaigning video Video Clips
awarded: Commended, Finalist

The children created this video where they wanted to warn about the consequences of plastic pollution. They make recommendations on alternatives to plastic use we can make.



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Hela ta’ Ikel

submitted by Our Lady Immaculate : Maria Tonna et al  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, school media, You tube
filed under Campaigning video Video Clips
awarded: Commended

The students worked on a video to raise awareness on the importance of mot wasting food.  



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Construction Boom in Malta

submitted by Secondary St. Aloysius College : Karl Camilleri  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, This video will be view during an event taking place during 'earth week'. Further details will follow soon.
filed under Reporting video Video Clips
awarded: Commended

It feels like Malta has become a permanent construction site. From local news it is evident that local councils, NGOs are inundated with complaints by residents about the many inconveniences caused by the construction industry. However, these seem to fall on deaf ears and greedy developers are not only abusing our land but also workers. The information used to create this video was taken from information on a few articles recently published on local newspapers and photographs taken by the author himself. The aim of this video is to show the urgent state of the situation on both the environment and society.. This craze to create iconic exclusive buildings and high-rise developments, makes me question its sustainability and what will my country look like in a few years from now.



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Clothes it again & again

submitted by St Francis Primary Cospicua : EkoSkola Committee  for 7-10
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): ewwr fb page, other, school media, website, youtube & school board
filed under Campaigning video Video Clips
awarded: Commended

School committee together with SMT are aware of throwing away used unwanted good clothes & shoes. Sometimes this is done because of the modern society, the need arises to change clothes and style or because we just can’t wear them anymore. Students said that this is generating unnecessary waste as this is being disposed of in their house bins, and they know that clothing can be a large contributor to the destruction of the environment. Therefore, we decided to bring to school, children’s and adults’ used clothes and shoes, which could be easily recycled and reused, given to other children who are less fortunate and to donation centers to have a second life. The aim behind this activity is to learn from a young age how to reduce waste on our throw away culture by recycling and reusing.  



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Water Conservation in Malta

submitted by Secondary St. Aloysius College : Andrea Anastasi, Gianni Debono, Luca Cassar, Lukas Abela, Nicholas Camilleri  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, This video will be viewed during an event taking place during 'earth week'. Further details will follow soon.
filed under Reporting video Video Clips
awarded: Commended, HSBC Award

The short video gives a brief introduction to water conservation, which is followed by a vox pop. We asked our teachers about water conservation. Then there is a narrative of facts and issues that we feel are in critical need of addressing in the Maltese Islands in order to conserve our water resources  



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Sort It Out

submitted by St.Dorothy's Senior School : Bettina Farrugia, Elena Spiteri, Kyra Abela, Naomi Marie Gerada  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): other, School email to all members of staff and all students, website
filed under Reporting video Video Clips
awarded: Commended, Participation

A group of 4 students investigated the school yard bins and depicted what they found with a graph. They also came up with solutions and discussed them with the Head of School – Ms.Caroline Anastasi. The students created a cartoon video clip which was shared with all the school on the 29th March during Class teacher time. In the video clip there was indicated all the bins in our school and how these should be used.



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Detox Here and Detox There!

submitted by St Francis Primary Cospicua : EkoSkola Committee  for 7-10
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): Ewwr & Timetodetox fb pgs, other, school media, website
filed under Campaigning video Video Clips
awarded: Commended

An awareness campaign to teach students, parents and teachers about Hazardous Waste Prevention. Examples of alternative natural products instead of chemicals, were promoted. Students reached parents to raise awareness in their homes and then to reach the outer community by also implementing actions at school and outside the school. Throughout the EWWR week we decided to go ‘HAZARDOUS FREE’. We made household cleaning products by using safe and degradable ingredients and used them together at school to show to all students and teachers that there is always a safer way for this. We also went to an old peoples home, talk about hazardous waste, distributed leaflets and explained why we are using our products. This activity is being done to show that hazardous waste is very harmful for our environment and for our health, and how we can avoid it by using safe products as it is very essential  



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