Roots and Shoots Visit

On 17 March, Dr K-lynn Smith from Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots program spoke at the Junior School Assembly. Last year, the Year 3 students led a campaign to collect old mobile devices (phones, iPads, batteries and chargers). The students decorated collection boxes, put up flyers and wrote an article for the newsletter to encourage people to donate.

The school collected the second most devices of any school in New South Wales! By recycling the devices, the school stopped toxic materials from going into Australian landfills and helped chimpanzees in Africa by reducing the need to mine new metals in their habitat.

Dr Smith expressed her pride in the school’s achievement and hoped that the school would take on another challenge this year. She suggested that the school could hold a bake sale or a mufti day to help chimpanzees in the Tchimpounga sanctuary, which cares for orphaned chimps. The money also helps people through educational programs and microloans for sustainable farming.

As a reward for helping chimpanzees, the students will receive biographies of the chimps they sponsor and a video of one of the babies we care for. 

Of course, mobile devices can always be recycled again as well!