​勒鲁瓦·丹尼尔斯学校在最近的塑料袋收集挑战中获得了1000美元的奖金。

三年级教师凯特琳·温茨(Kaitlin Weintz)对环境教育和世界上的废弃物充满热情，并带领学校参与了今年地球周的回收倡议。该学校是全国仅有的11所获得社区参与奖的学校之一，获得了1000美元用于学校或社区的环境倡议。学校在各省份的竞争中争得了三个奖项之一，勒鲁瓦·丹尼尔斯赢得了亚伯达省的大奖。

根据该挑战的网站，“塑料袋抓取挑战是加拿大小学的一项废物减量计划，它通过减少、重复利用和回收的教育课程，吸引学校和学生参与。这个挑战对幼儿园到八年级的所有加拿大学生开放。”

勒鲁瓦·丹尼尔斯是加拿大635所学校和21万名学生中的一所，他们收集了超过1,903,193个塑料购物袋，并安全地回收利用了这些袋子。学校重点关注“减少”和“重复利用”两个方面。然后，他们向学生提出了减少个人塑料足迹的方法。

在教师的帮助下，学校收集了5000多个塑料袋，并将其纳入了四月份的课程中，学生们开始思考如何更好地保护环境。学校的幼儿园到三年级学生成为了回收和减少塑料足迹的积极领导者。学生们提出了一个创造性的想法，更好地管理学校的可重复利用纸张碎片，并且更加有意识地选择将废物放入垃圾桶还是回收桶。

学生们鼓励他们的家庭和社区参与，在家人和邻居一起收集了塑料袋。许多家长还将这个挑战带到了他们的工作场所。

祝贺勒鲁瓦·丹尼尔斯学校！

​Le Roi Daniels School has won $1,000 thanks to their efforts in a recent plastic bag grab challenge.

Grade 3 teacher Kaitlin Weintz is passionate about environmental education and waste in the world and led the school through this recycling initiative for Earth Week. The school is one of only 11 across the country to win a grand prize for community engagement, receiving the $1,000 to put towards an environmental initiative within the school or community. Schools compete for three prizes within their province, and Le Roi Daniels won the Alberta grand prize.

According to the challenge’s website, "The Plastic Bag Grab Challenge is a waste reduction program for elementary schools across Canada that engages schools and students on the 3Rs hierarchy: reduce, reuse, and recycle. The challenge, which can be integrated into educational curriculum, is open to all Canadian students from junior-kindergarten to Grade 8."

Le Roi Daniels was one of 635 schools and 210,000 students across Canada to participate in collecting over 1,903,193 plastic shopping bags to be safely recycled. The school community focused on the 3 R's, specifically the reduce and reuse initiatives. They then challenged students to think of ways to reduce their personal plastic footprints.

The school collected over 5,000 plastic bags with the help of staff, students and families.  Teachers integrated this into the curriculum for the month of April, and students became thoughtful of ways to take better care of the environment. The school’s K-3 students became passionate leaders about recycling and reducing their plastic footprints. Students came up with a creative idea on how to better manage the school’s reusable paper scraps and became more conscious about whether their waste belonged in garbage or recycling bins.

Students engaged their families and communities, and collected plastic bags with their families and neighbors. Many parents took the challenge to their places of work as well.

Congratulations, Le Roi Daniels School!