GAIA awards presentation ceremony was successfully held on 26th May. Our school was awarded the Gold Award and the Most Enthusiastic Sharing Award of the Year. At the same time, Assistant Principal Ho Tik Shun was also awarded the Most Outstanding Guru Award and the Most Enthusiastic Guru Award for his active participation in the GAIA energy saving platform.
The MoCC Environmental Fair 2017 was held successfully in Cityplaza on 22 April. Being one of the participating schools of the Carbon Reduction Project, we are honoured to join ceremony. Three of our S.5 students (Choi Wing Sum, Tai Ho Ying Renee and Yoa Hon Fung) also represented the participated schools to share the results of the project in the ceremony.
Low Carbon Guru Program is organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Hong Kong. Viki Ho, Alan Ng, Samuel Tsui, Lillian Wong from S.4A and Twinkle Lam from S.4D, accompanied by Mr. Ho Tik Shun, have joined the program to promote environmental conservation in our School and neighbouring district throughout the year. Their activities include: Shooting film: Low-carbon Guru Series Seminar: Sharing on restoration in Loess Plateau Green Diet Workshop Exhibition on Climate Change in YMCA Chai Wan Center: Recruitment of Low-Carbon Ice-Savers…
Housing more than 1000 plant species, our School provides a good learning platform of the uses of medicinal plants and conservation on plant biodiversity for the public through mobile learning. In this workshop, participants can explore the details of herbs in a boundless setting in Environmental Trail and Medicinal Plant Garden on our rooftop. They can acquire basic concepts of plant properties and their uses together with simple species identification skills, to promote the use of plants for the health of the society.
Our Sustainable Development Ambassadors joined the visit organized by GAIA CUHK to the T. Park Environmental Education Centre in Tuen Mun this February. T. Park is a self-sustained unit. It is an incinerator, an on-site desalination plant and a leisure and educator centre. Through this visit, students acquired the exemplary practice of sustainability in Hong Kong.
CFSS has been participating in the “One Person, One Flower Scheme” under the Green Hong Kong Campaign (Leisure and Cultural Services Department) for years. This year, the CFSS Sustainable Development (SD) Team and Parent– Teacher Association joined hands to promote this green concept to families by organizing the “One Family, One Pot Activity”. Mr. Tong Man Chung from the SD Team distributed seedlings of Lemmon’s Marigold to participants, and elaborated on the techniques in planning and planting. Lemmon’s Marigold is supposed to blossom in 3…
40 teachers and students of our school visited the Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change in CUHK on 17 January 2015 (Sat) to further realize the alarming situations of polar climate change and global warming. Then, they attended the “WildChinaFilm Photography” Seminar launched by Lee Woo Sing College, with famous Ecofilmer Mr. Xi Zhinong as the speaker in the talk. It was our school’s honour to invite Mr. Xi to come to CFSS and interacted with 50 green leaders on 19 January 2015 (Mon), sharing…
The Science and Technology Education Enhancement Team and the Science Club co-organized a pilot program on plant specimen preparation in October and November this year. This workshop aimed at training students to identify and collect plant specimen on the campus. Under highly technological teaching pedagogies, students experienced biodiversity, appreciation of nature and environmental conservation in a practical manner. The programme included two sessions: (A) 16 October: Specimen Collection Field Trip Our Principal, Mr. Au, and a group of 30 students and teachers in total, collected…
Sea turtles are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical waters. Yet, they are facing several threats: from egg-stealing to massive slaughter by bottom trawling and accidents from lining fishing methods. Sea turtles have rarely entered Hong Kong waters since 2005. Green Gurus of our school would like to raise the whole school’s awareness of sea turtle conservation, and therefore launched a morning signature campaign on 6th Oct 2014 (Mon). The campaign was well-supported by more than 300 teachers and students in which each of us…
To enhance students’ consciousness on environmental conservation, our School has joined the Juvenile Horseshoe Crab Rearing Programme launched by Hong Kong Ocean Park. 9 students from S.3 and S.4 have formed a core group, aiming to rear living fossil Chinese Horseshoe Crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) juveniles and arouse schoolmates’ awareness on horseshoe crab conservation. In February, dozens of horseshoe crab juveniles will be delivered from Ocean Park to our School for rearing until they are mature enough to live in the wild in July. Core members…