Wait before throwing your Addie away
The Springs Advertiser, in conjunction with Veritas College, will host a recycling competition for Springs schools on that day.
What do you and your parents do with the Addie when you’ve finished with it?
Do you throw it away or recycle it?
We’d like to encourage you to save it from today as you’re going to need it in the weeks leading up to July 13.
The Springs Advertiser, in conjunction with Veritas College, will host a recycling competition for Springs schools on that day.
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The judging of the competition will take place at Veritas after the school’s cancer walk and the international food fair.
How it works
• The competition will be judged in two sections – a primary/junior school section and a high/secondary school section.
• The competition is open to learners in Grade Four to 11 and schools may enter one team per grade.
• Each team will include four learners who will work together to complete the assigned project.
• Junior school (Grade Four to Seven) teams will have to do a short research project on a particular building or landmark in the assigned country and build a model of the building out of copies of the Springs Advertiser.
• The choice of building or landmark is up to the team, as long as no two teams from the same school choose the same building.
• Senior school (Grade Eight to 11) teams will have design and model fashion in the style of the assigned country to be worn by a model or models on July 13.
• All clothes and accessories must be made out of old copies of the paper and at least one member of the team will model the outfit created.
• Colour may be applied to building models and outfits if desired.
• Each school will be assigned a different country by the Springs Advertiser team and the school must then decide what part of the country each grade will highlight.
• For example, if your school is given China, each grade would have to showcase a different building so you might have the Great Wall of China, The Summer Palace, The Palace Museum and Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum.
Entering
• To enter, complete the entry form and submit it, together with your entry fee, to Christina Radebe at the Springs Advertiser.
• Please tell her that it is for the environmental challenge.
• Entries close on June 28.
• There is an entry fee of R80 per team (R20 per learner) and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Vita Nova and iThemba Pregnancy Crisis Centre.
• Details of how and where to display your work will be given closer to the time.
• The winning team in each section will be awarded the Springs Advertiser Enviornmental Challenge cup.
Note: While we will try to accommodate your favoured country, if more than one school asks for the same country we will assign countries on a first come, first served basis.
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