| Fizah Hab |
OVER 100 students of International School Brunei (ISB) were celebrated yesterday for their success in the ‘Sprout IQ Farm-to-School’ programme.
For their bountiful harvest, these hardworking students were rewarded with a heart-warming assembly at the ISB school campus in Sungai Hanching.
Among them were Her Royal Highness Princess Ameerah Wardatul Bolkiah, Yang Teramat Mulia Pengiran Muda ‘Abdul Muntaqim ibni Duli Yang Teramat Mulia Paduka Seri Pengiran Muda Mahkota Pengiran Muda Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah and Yang Teramat Mulia Pengiran Anak Muneerah Madhul Bolkiah binti Duli Yang Teramat Mulia Paduka Seri Pengiran Muda Mahkota Pengiran Muda Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah.
ISB Executive Principal, Dr Steven Geraghty spoke with pride of the effort.
“Our staff members, students, and sponsors, and in fact, all stakeholders, did their bit in trying to highlight areas where we can help to conserve resources and more specifically, Brunei’s natural beauty,” he said.
“My predecessor, David Taylor, made ISB the first school in Brunei to offer recycling over 13 years ago and that kick-start has led to involvement in so many different initiatives.
“I would like to acknowledge the hard work and commitment of too many individuals to name, but all essential to the eco cause,” Dr Geraghty said.
‘Sprout IQ Farm-to-School’ is aimed at creating impact at an early stage of learning.
It is a modern customisable educational programme that is suitable according to levels of the young generation to make youths competent in growing their own nutritional food and instilling in them with values of knowledge, self-reliance, entrepreneurial and sense of responsibility while also exposing them to hands-on experience on agriculture hence encouraging them to be an agripreneur.
Also present were programme participants, AGROME IQ staff members and representatives from the various sponsors and BIBD ALAF students who just started their ‘Sprout IQ Farm-to-School’ programme.
Others were the school’s Eco Warriors, whose role is to promote all forms of sustainable responsibility within the locale, including encouraging more recycling, arranging beach clean-up events and promoting energy saving measures.
Some of these will be the main guides to a 100-strong delegation of students from all over Asia in May, when ISB will host the ‘2018 FOBISIA Eco Conference’.
The main theme of the conference will be ‘Sustainable Development and Natural Heritage’ and will include visits to Temburong Eco Village and other sites where development has not necessitated large-scale changes to natural habitats and Brunei’s environmental heritage.
Brunei Shell Petroleum Co Sdn Bhd (BSP) and Progresif Cellular Sdn Bhd have offered sponsorship of 100 local students from different schools around the country to attend the conference.
Another school initiative, the ‘Million Trees Project’ will also be an integral part of the conference.
Its goal is to re-plant one million trees in Borneo.
All conference delegates will be planting a sapling and another 2,000 saplings will be sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank.
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