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  • An environmental project of the Aachen-Cape Town-Partnership of sustainable livelihood

    Healthy Schools in Grassy Park: A project concerning healthy and balanced nutrition and body movement for primary school children in Cape Town from March until May 2010

         

    Mr. Aubrey du Wet, Principal of the pilot-school Fairview Primary, with his Football-champions (girls, grade 7) of his school.

    The project-team from Germany for Grassy Park 2010: Norbert Kuntz und Monika Galla

    Schools are having a great responsibility for the education of children and teenager all over the world. Especially where the social and economic situation is neither stable nor healthy, schools need to be prepared to play a balancing and supporting role in order to show their pupils different ways out of poverty and underdevelopment – new grounds, which can only be broken through education. Sometimes school is the only pedagogical part in the lives of the children and teenager, so that it is most important that a professional teaching staff can be found. In the same time, an attractive learning atmosphere is given, if the school is properly equipped. Especially the schoolyard should not only be used by the children to play and have a break, but also to be a learning platform, which provides body movement, nature exploration and just an alternative to the classroom. “summer countries” like South Africa offer a special need to the idea of schoolyard improvement and extension by a garden, for instance.

    This is, where the local project, “Healthy Schools in Grassy Park”, is being deposited. It aims to combine gardening and sport programs on three schools to improve the health and physical condition of the children, teachers, caretakers and parents. Furthermore, their biological and environmental knowledge will be enriched and stabilized, through which the children will upgrade their self-esteem. Last but not least, the determined methods and ways to live healthier will be established and passed to everybody participated. Commonly we will reach the claimed skills-training and capacity-building, by what every single participant will learn and evolve.

    In 2008 a school project has been organized and established at the Fairview Primary School in Grassy Park (see there) . The school has been redesigned into a “green oasis“, which includes a garden of the senses, a playground and other areas, where the children can move and just let off steam, a smartly planned watering system as well as a food garden for the soup kitchen of the school.

    Both the school and the partners in Cape Town would be happy to extend the project in the future. Their idea is a so called ’snowball system’ to educate teachers and caretakers as well as interested parents and, of course, the children on further greening, planting, healthy living, body movement etc. As a first step a maximum of three further schools should be redesigned in the same way in 2010, whereupon the remaining nine schools in Grassy Park should follow their example in the near future – the main objective is then the creation of a network, so that all 12 schools from that area would work in a common sense. In a network, the City of Cape Town as well as the nearby nature reserve should be integrated, too.

    Overview of the key activities for 2010:      

    • Origination and evolvement of a school network in Grassy Park including all 12 schools of the area, which want to become a healthy school;

    • Establishment of food and herb gardens as well as gardens of the senses (smelling, tasting, touching) in three schools located in Grassy Park;

    • Design and construction of “Trimming-Parks” (special designed sports field) and playgrounds aiming an enhancement of the children’s physical fitness;

    • Education and (job) training for teachers, care-takers and parents

    • Transfer of knowledge (through art, games, open discussions etc.) regarding a sustainable development and education;

    • Design and development of a handbook in South Africa’s official languages (English, Afrikaans and Xhosa) including the learned techniques;

    • Compilation of a movie as a guidance and animation for further schools interested in the network.

    Here you find the actual project-folder of the project “Healthy schools in Grassy Park” as pdf.