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ENVIRONMENT ACTIVITIES
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LONSDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CLOSED
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(Wagg Creek)
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Lonsdale Elementary School was permanently closed in 2006.
While the school was open, they offered a variety of programs to encourage environmental awareness.
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RECYCLING
Lonsdale emphasized recycle and reuse, including organic matter which went into their compost bin. The compost was used to grow flowers in several planter boxes located on school grounds.
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ENVIRONMENT STUDIES
For Earth Day each year, if possible, the whole school went somewhere else to experience and study a different type of environment - Boundary Bay to do beach studies, Maplewood Flats for estuaries, Seymour Demonstration Forest for resource management, or Stanley Park. This tied into their science program on water/land transitions and exposed students to a variety of habitat types.
Grade 2's also took part in the Outdoor School Program.
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ENVIRONMENT AWARENESS
One of the school's goals was to assure that each student was transit literate - knowing how to use public transit and how to go from one place to another.
Lonsdale welcomed speakers, such as Grizz-Ed and an entomologist who spoke about butterflies and identified a potential site for a butterfly garden.
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