On 13 September, Hoërskool Randburg was one of 15 schools which participated in the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines successful attempt to enter the history books.
Hoërskool Randburg in collaboration with 14 other schools in Gauteng broke a world record and commemorated the airline’s 100th birthday.
The event was the grand finale of a project which started with radio station 947. Listeners were encouraged to write letters to their future selves in 10 years which served as an exercise in sustainability as well as focused attention to look to the future, as opposed to the past. Learners at the schools were then given these recycled and recyclable A4 pieces of paper and were encouraged to do the same. The papers were subsequently folded into paper planes and launched at the same time. Precisely 14 456 paper planes were flown at the same time at all the schools in the province.
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The exercise spoke to the airline’s alignment with sustainability and emphasised a focus on a nurtured youth for a better future. Schools were chosen as the focal point for the new world record as they are the hub of future generations.
After the thousands of learners across the province had broken the world record for the most paper planes flown at the same time, the paper planes were collected and converted to compost and used for the new Forest of the Future at orphanage Mother of Peace in North Riding, four weeks later.
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