World Water Day - March 22nd

World Water Day  | FUNDRAISER

Dear parent(s)/guardian(s),

World Water Day is an annual event that takes place on March 22nd. This event brings awareness to the importance of fresh water in our global community.

The Me to We Committee and the Eco Club will be selling Rafiki bracelets and reusable water bottles from Wednesday, March 22nd to Tuesday, March 28th.

Options Available:

• Water Series Rafiki bracelets (6 varieties) - $12 each
• Pine Grove Eco water bottles - $7 each
• S’well water bottles - $43 (265mL) or $51 (500mL) each

Junior/Intermediate (upstairs classes) - a table will be set up outside of the intermediate pod.

Primary (downstairs classes) - Eco Club students will be coming around each class to sell.

All proceeds from eco water bottle will be donated to Wateraid Canada. 


Click the following links for more information about Me to We and S'well. 

Thank you for your support,

Me to We Committee/Eco Club

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G.O.O.S. Bin Design Challenge and Crayola Challenge

G.O.O.S. Bin Design Challenge

Calling all Pine Grove students! Your class probably already has a G.O.O.S. (Good On One Side) Paper bin, but now it’s time to get those creative juices flowing! All homeroom classes are encouraged to design and make a creative G.O.O.S. Paper bin. Members of the eco club will be photographing all entries at the end of January. Winners from each division will receive a prize and will be honoured during our February awards assembly. 

Crayola ColorCycle Challenge 2017

The eco club will be continuing a past initiative of participating in the Crayola ColorCycle Challenge. The goal is for every class to collect all dried out markers - even if they aren’t Crayola markers. Each class will receive a bag for their collection. Markers will be counted at the end of March and the eco club will announce who our champions are. The winning class will receive a prize and be honoured for their accomplishments at the following awards assembly. Pine Grove volunteers will ship our collection back to Crayola to recycle. This exciting school wide initiative helps to keep plastic out of landfills. Thank you for your continued support. 

Litterless/Boomerang Lunches

Did you know that school lunches are a major source of waste in Ontario? In fact, the average student’s lunch generates a total of 30 kilograms of waste per school year, or an average of 8,500 kilograms of waste per school per year.

A litterless lunch is a great way to reduce your impact on the environment - and your wallet! A litterless lunch is simply that. It is a lunch that creates no waste! It involves the elimination of disposable products and encourages use of reusable containers. The goal of a litterless lunch is to reduce waste production, and therefore help to reduce our impact on the Earth.

Why pack a litterless lunch?

• It reduces packaging waste
• It's cheaper
• It's healthier

Litterless Lunch (water bottle, sandwich, yogurt, fruit)	Packaged Lunch (juice box, Lunchables, Yo-Tube, fruit chews)
$2.65 / average day	$4.02 / average day
$13.25 / week	$20.10 / week
$477.00 / school year	$723.60 / school year

Yes Please!	No Thank You!
REUSABLE Lunch Carrier	NO paper or plastic bags
REUSABLE containers (Tupperware, Rubbermaid, Lockables)	NO plastic wrap, foil, wax, or Styrofoam
REUSABLE drink bottle or thermos	NO single-use cans or juice boxes
CLOTH NAPKIN to wash and re-use	NO paper napkins
SILVERWARE to wash and re-use	NO plastic forks/spoons
HEALTHFUL snacks	NO overly packaged/processed snacks

Source: WasteFreeLunch.com

What is a Boomerang Lunch?
A boomerang lunch is a lunch that has every piece of it return to its source. In other words, everything in the lunch goes back home at the end of the day. No matter if it is leftover food, containers, recyclables or garbage, it all goes back. Yes, even the garbage.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, Pine Grove will be participating in Litterless/Boomerang Lunches. The eco club will be coming around to cover your garbage bins as a reminder to take all of your garbage home. 

5th Annual Litter Round Up

This Friday will be our 5th Annual Litter Round Up! Pine Grove will be outside cleaning up our school grounds. Please bring your own gloves and remember not to pick up any sharp or foreign objects.

Pine Grove is looking forward to cleaning up our environment. Together we can work toward saving the Earth!