Last Thursday, November 10th, UWCSEA East campus received middle school visitors from Meridian School, Pasir Ris. A group of fifteen enthusiastic children and three teachers came to our roof top Tree Nursery to learn about our Rainforest Restoration Project and in general, about the green world of native Singapore trees. We also received Nathan Hunt, our College Director of Sustainability, and Ms. Erin, our Primary School Principal who joined us for some fun learning activities.
After introductions and presentations from the Meridian school, the children surprised us with a song they had prepared to perform with us. We all sang together cheerily Count on me by Bruno Mars and Happy by Pharrell Williams. What a great ice breaker!
Once divided into groups, the kids were learning about the Tree Nursery rainforest system while the other group developed creative activities with Nathan in order to interact with each other and some of the tree species names. Following this, curiosity lead to compelling questions which showed their inquisitiveness about rainforest tree restoration. To finish up, we challenged everyone with a friendly quiz on newly acquired tree knowledge, and with some laughs, we said our goodbyes to this lovely visit.
The opportunity of sharing our knowledge with these children who were so curious and full of energy, was absolutely indescribable. Looking at the faces of all those young kids interested in what we do, encourage us to be stewards of change and to help sustain our city (and our Earth), and enhance the current situation it is facing.
We are sure they learned throughout their visit, but we also did, now we’re motivated to continue working hard and we know that there are young generations that are worried like us about the future of our planet. Contributing to stop our environmental impact with the activities we carry out in our local service, is a good way to start the change we are planning.
