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We educate our students about how to be more eco-friendly in their daily lives. During our monthly Recognition Assemblies, students teach other students by presenting a lesson to the entire school about how to make our environment better. Below is a sample of some of our lessons and presentations.

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Here our school's ecomonitors are updating the school about our lunch monitoring program and teaching the students what to put in the green bin, recycling bin, and garbage.  Great job!



Here's our EcoMonitors educating our students who stay for lunch about using the Garbage, Recycling, and Compost bins properly. 

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One focus at Terry Fox Public School is to integrate saving the environment with our literacy programs in our classrooms. One book that our teachers are using in our classrooms is "Sandy's Incredible Shrinking Footprint". CLICK on the picture below to view the book.



During the Monthly Recognition Assemblies, EcoSchools students dramatize eco-themed books that can be found in our own school library.  One story we dramatized was The Little Hummingbird written by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.  Visit our school library to find the other great eco-themed books we have available!

 

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Once upon a time there was a friend of a friend and ...a milk bag rescued from a landfill to give comfort to a needy child.

In fact, many milk bags! A "Milk Bag Project" is being organized by Mrs. Causi, a friend of a friend, and she is looking for help from other friends, associates and environmentally motivated schools just like our own, Terry Fox Public School.

Mrs. Causi's interest was piqued by a CBC broadcast of a young teacher in Ottawa who initiated a small group of volunteers in one of the first milk bag projects in Ontario. You can contribute to Mrs. Causi's project, by saving your clean milk bags (outer milk bag that holds the three individual litre bags) and bringing them in to the school where they will be collected in a "milk bag' box located outside of the Main Office and delivered to Mrs. Causi. (The milk bags must be washed and folded in half to lay flat in our collection box.)

Collected milk bags are cut into strips which are crocheted into mats. The material used in the outer milk bags resists mildew and bugs, making them an excellent material to create sleeping mats for homeless children in third world countries and disaster-affected countries, such as Haiti and Japan.

EARTH RANGERS

Earth Rangers visited Terry Fox PS in March to teach all our students about the biodiversity loss that the animals in Canada are facing today.  Some species are considered endangered and we want to education students on how to preserve our habitats and the species that live in our ecosystem to prevent animal extinction.  Some important information we learned was that the barn owl is facing habitat loss and sound pollution is hurting the beluga whales.  Students got to view 4 animal ambassadors who came to our school and even got to witness some of their special talents, such as the flight of the eagle.  We hope everyone enjoyed the presentation and learned how to be stewards of our environment.

For more information or to register to become an Earth Ranger yourself, you can go to www.earthrangers.com.

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CLOTHESLINE CLOTHES DONATION

Terry Fox Public School has partnered up with the Canadian Diabetes Association with their Clothesline program.  We are collecting gently used clothing, shoes, and hand bags.  For every garbage bag full of clothing our school donates, we receive $2.  This money will go towards building a school garden.  The Canadian Diabetes Association will then sell the clothing and use all the money they raise towards Diabetes research and education.  And best of all, each piece of clothing that is donated, is one less piece of garbage that  goes into our landfills!  You can bring these items to our school up until Eco Family Night on Thursday, April 24th.

You can view this link to get more information on the Clothesline program:

clothesline-in-the-bag-flyer.pdf

REDUCE Garbage and Waste

Ask your parents/guardians to buy food in bulk. It will limit the amount of excess packaging that will go into the garbage.

REUSE

Think of the environment before throwing anything out. Please wash and reuse as much as you can. (For Example: water bottles, containers, plastic bags)

RECYCLE

Remember to place recyclable items in to the recycling bin at school and at home. (For Example: paper, plastic, glass, styrofoam containers, pop cans)

COMPOST

Place your left over food items into your green bin at home. If you are not at home, take your left over food items back home with you to put into your green bin.  Otherwise, during lunch time, you can put compostable items (e.g. banana peels and apple cores into the green bin).

GARBAGE

An unfriendly choice for the environment. All garbage thrown out goes into the same landfill.

There are MANY reasons why you should avoid toxic cleaning products. There are also many non-toxic products that you can substitute instead of using toxic chemicals.

For more information on HOW you can HELP THE ENVIRONMENT, please CLICK HERE 
  

    



Terry Fox Public School Collection Corner

Let's help the reduce items going into landfills!  You can bring the following items to school so they can be disposed of in a more eco-friendly manner.  We will be collecting old cell phones, ink cartridges, and CDs and DVDs and bringing it to appropriate sites where they will be disposed of properly.  Donated glasses will be recycled by the Lions Club where glasses are cleaned and fixed.  These glasses are then sent to countries for use by people who cannot afford them.

SO, BRING YOUR OLD CELLPHONES, GLASSES, CDs AND INK CARTRIDGES TO OUR RECYCLING CENTRE IN FRONT OF THE MAIN OFFICE!!!

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Reusing Eye Glasses

Did you know that Cambodia is one of the poorest Country’s in the world?

Many Cambodian’s have a limited nutrition and a great need for eye care because they cant afford to buy it. Only a few people can buy eye glasses. Cambodian’s need the eye glasses to help them see, get jobs, or even learn.  Donate your old eye glasses by placing them in our Eco Collection box and our school will donate it to those in need.

Recycling Cellphones and CDs

These two drop offs are for recycling CDs or CD-ROM drives if you prefer to drop off these items at a depot yourselves or through the summer.

Victoria Park Transfer Station
3350 Victoria Park Avenue
Toronto

Staples (Steeles Avenue)
4711 Steeles Ave. East
Scarborough

Cell Phones

You can also recycle cell phones at the Toronto Zoo or you can give it to other people that might need one.

Toronto Zoo - Cell Phone Recycling Program
C/O Curator of Conservation Programs
361A Old Finch Avenue Scarborough, Ontario M1B 5K7

Where can I recycle household hazardous waste, such as batteries, DVDs, and CDs?

TO FIND OUT, CLICK HERE