By Owen Haywood
Sustainability and Eco Lead
After becoming a father for the second time on NYE 2022, I was able to re-evaluate my lifestyle and reflect on how to improve myself for my family, my community, including at Northbridge International School Cambodia, and the planet.
New year’s resolutions are frequently made but maybe seldom stuck to. This year I decided to get fit and plan to train for an Iron Man by the time I am 40 years old (just 2 years away), to spend more time with family in nature, and to increase my impact on the green movement that is sweeping the planet.
While there is much environmental news that focuses on the doom and gloom of changing weather systems and destruction of nature, there are still many people doing some amazing things in the field of sustainability around the globe. For example, a company from South America have just designed a torch that is powered by seawater (waterlight.com.co). What? That is incredible.
Whenever I feel disengaged about the climate crisis, I visit happyeconews.com to find out the fabulous things that are happening around the globe. On this week’s top 5, I have been reading about Argentina’s plans to use solar-powered robots to clean its waterways, water-filled windows to cool buildings, and a man from Senegal who plans to plant 5 million trees. There are lots of interesting people doing marvelous things around the globe to make our planet greener.
At NISC, there are some wonderful students planning some brilliant activities for Earth Day this year. The Eco Council students have analysed the themes (climate literacy, vote earth, end plastics, plant trees, global cleanup and sustainable fashion) from Earth Day this year (earthday.org/earth-day-2023/) and are in the process of organizing an Earth Week, with a host of activities across different grade levels.
We are so lucky to have an enthusiastic team of environmentalists who are keen to spread the green movement in our local community and throughout Cambodia. Watch this space for a clean, green Earth week!
Teenagers, including at Northbridge International School Cambodia, are at a crucial stage in their lives as they try to navigate the complexities of growing up. They are faced with the challenge of balancing academic demands, peer pressure, and family expectations, all while trying to discover their own identity and purpose in life.
For school year 2022-2023, Northbridge International School Cambodia installed some updates in the Secondary Science Laboratory Classrooms that the NISC Health and Safety Audit Committee has been working on from the previous school year based on the Nord Anglia Regional Manager on Health and Safety suggestions.
For the last several months grade 10 students at Northbridge International School Cambodia have been thinking about their futures and the pathways they intend to take both next year in the DP and subsequently after.
Academic integrity is a fundamental aspect of education at Northbridge International School Cambodia, and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has raised concerns about maintaining ethical and moral standards.
