The progress of
civilization brings a lot of facilities for contemporary society. Especially
the young generation is willing to employ technological innovations. However,
one has to remember that rapid economical progress of the world causes impendency
for the natural environment.
For the School
Complex No 7 in Toruń the idea of sustainable development […] became particularly
important. […] The ecological character of the School Complex No 7 has been developed
over the past ten years. It was started when the terms like ‘ecology’, ‘environmental
protection’ or simply ‘green’ were not given a particular attention. […] In
local region, our small motherland, the School Complex No 7 is associated with
the world ‘green’ both literally and metaphorically. The effectiveness of the
institution is emphasized with its image, which is a green island among the
concrete blocks of flats. We do care about the history of our area through
visiting and looking after historical places, as well as through collecting
information about historical buildings and their past and present roles. […]
In 2004 the
School Complex No 7 in Toruń was rewarded the first degree of the ‘Green
Certificate’. […] As a result, the School Complex No 7 is now perceived as more
attractive in both ecological and educational sense. It also opened the door
for activating the local society and popularizing ecology among local people,
what led to a significant improvement in the authority of the school. […]
Between 2007 and
2009 the school workers managed to carry into effect another activity in the
field of sustainable development that was inseparably linked to local needs and
the vision of our school. Within the frames of the project called “Our ‘Baszka’
that is the Toruń Stream” (Nasza Baszka czyli Struga toruńska) all the
undertaken actions became a natural way of continuation of the previous
activities and involved local activities and other subjects. […]
In the calendar
of the school events different ecological actions that involve not only school
workers but also local citizens are of prime importance. The list includes
orienteering event along the educational path of the ‘Mokre’ District, family
races along the Toruń Stream, ‘Clean up the world’, family picnics, St.
Nicolaus Day for animals and charity concerts ‘It’s good to be together’. […]
The crowning
achievement of the common effort is both the quality sign for an environmentally
friendly school that propagates the idea of sustainable development, as well as
the ‘Green Certificate’ of the second degree that is seldom to be found among
schools in Poland.
Authors:
Lucyna Namysłowska-Hartowicz
Marzena Polaszewska
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