GOALS PROJECT 2021
This year our school participated in 2021 GOALS PROJECT, where the students collaborated with 1600 global classrooms from 118 countries to examine the UN Sustainable Development Goals and their ability to take action through shared experience and use of innovative technologies and practices.
This project aimed to lead behaviour change, through education and was reinforcement of our school philosophy of Education for Life. It provided the phenomenon based learning and 21st century skills allowing students to be creative, to collaborate at a global scale, understand empathy, think critically and most importantly take action.
The students of our school worked on the project: Life Below Water. During the six week project they connected and interacted with teachers and experts across the globe. As a group they acted upon (SDG) Sustainable Development Goal 14 - Life Below Water, which states the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
Collectively, our Environmental Stewards from Middle and Senior school explored the SDG by studying its causes, effects and pondered upon the solutions. Their ideas and solutions took diverse directions of composing and performing songs, creating school-wide and community wide campaigns, making resolution paper and draft policy as they continue to reach and report. They voiced their dissent through various mediums like stop-motion videos, neighbourhood clean-ups, beach clean-ups, bake sales, clothing and food drives. Various Art projects, inventions and experiments were also shared on this platform.
They got the opportunity to join hands with project partners from the UN in a global online celebration of the Goals Project Day of Solutions. These students spoke of diversity, equality, climate change and clean energy when they conducted interviews, wrote letters and raised their voices.
The Goal Project culminated with the students from all across the world sharing their final projects. Through their passion and grit they are teaching the world how change can be brought through actions and shared humanity!
