EkoSkola Green Flag for De La Salle College Junior School

The Lasallian community at De La Salle Junior School has reached another milestone in working towards a better environment for the present and future generations. The EkoSkola team, together with the Junior school students and educators, have been working on a whole-school approach to improve the school environment and bring a positive change in their school community, particularly in the area of reducing waste.

This work was recognised by EkoSkola Malta and De La Salle Junior School was once again awarded the EkoSkola Green Flag.

To celebrate this achievement, the Senior Leadership Team organised a ceremony on Wednesday November 17th, where the students from Year 1 up to Year 6 were congratulated for their efforts/practices in the presence of the School Director of Educational Mission; Mr. Stephen Cachia, the Head of School; Mr. Nicholai Mifsud, Brother Edward Galea, mentor to the Junior School, Professor Paul Pace, EkoSkola National Director and Ms. Audrey Gauci, Eko Skola coordinator.

During the ceremony, the respective members gave a speech where they encouraged the students to continue working on more positive practices which will have a good outcome on the school community and society in general.

The two EkoSkola Presidents also gave a speech, in which they highlighted the most important goals which were achieved in the previous scholastic year, while the rest of the EkoSkola members were present to help raise the Green Flag together with the Head of the Junior School; Mr. Nicolai Mifsud.

The EkoSkola team will continue to work on a number of initiatives throughout this scholastic year to implement education for sustainable development amongst our school community.

 - By Claire Vella Year 4 Educator

Meanwhile,  on Friday November 19th De La Salle College Junior School celebrated World Children's Day. The educators at DLS JS believe that children have a right to play and have fun. Unfortunately, this pandemic has taken a toll on certain activities that used to take place in the past.

Whilst still respecting all Covid measures, we started off the day with a special assembly where the students watched a clip that featured their teachers as young children followed by a quiz. After some special treats such as waffles, the students participated in a number of activities celebrating to celebrate Children's Day.