Eco-Schools is a program designed and managed by the National Wildlife Federation . The NWF is the largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization in the United States. They offer a wide array of educational products and programs to inspire and empower children to become advocates for their own natural heritage. Piney Point is proud to partner with them on several initiatives!
2021 Symbolic Migration
Every year our Monarch Heroes participate in the Journey North Symbolic Migration thanks to the generous sponsorship of our PTO. Our students create paper ambassador butterflies and a class folder to send to Mexico for the winter. Each spring we receive butterflies from all over the United States and Canada.
You can read more about this fantastic program HERE
21-22 Green Heroes
21-22 Monarch Heroes
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20-21 Green Heroes
20-21 Monarch Heroes
Earth Day 20-21
Family Garden pARTy Events
We are holding these to keep our Panthers involved in their habitats and also to make up for the work lost when we went to virtual learning in the spring.
2nd Green Flag!
We are delighted to announce that our Green Heroes have done it again! Through the hard work of hundreds of students Piney Point has achieved this most prestigious award from the National Wildlife Federation for the second time. We are making plans for our award ceremony and will announce the specifics and send out invitations as soon as we can!
Earth Day 2019
Kinder Mural
1st grade Mural
2nd grade Mural
3rd/ 4th grade collaboration
5th grade Mural
gARTen Party
2019-19 Monarch Heroes
Congratulations to our Mayor's Proud Partner award recipients!
Monarch Money - video courtesy of Mr. Huerta
Symbolic Migration
Earning Our Wings 2018-19!
Earth Day 2018
Kinder
1st
PPES 1st grade Earth Day 2018 from Boyce Teacher on Vimeo.
2nd
PPES 2nd grade Earth Day 2018 from Boyce Teacher on Vimeo.
PPES 3rd grade Earth Day 2018 from Boyce Teacher on Vimeo.
4th
PPES 4th grade Earth Day 2018 from Boyce Teacher on Vimeo.5th
PPES 5th grade Earth Day 2018 from Boyce Teacher on Vimeo.
GREEN FLAG AWARD CELEBRATION
The culmination of three years dedication and hard works by hundreds of our student Green Heroes! We are so very proud of their epic achievement! Visit our Eco-Schools dashboard HERE
Read the event profile from HISD's News Blog HERE
credit to Ms. Brown for the video
Fall Panther Planet Protector Update
Panther Planet Pals September from Kimberly Boyce-Quentin on Vimeo.Eco-Schools
Eco-Schools provides a framework for schools to pursue conservation and sustainability. The students assume important campus leadership roles and direct the program. This dovetails beautifully with our Leader In Me philosophy! The work we do on the pathways also helps us support the HISD Energy and Sustainability department's mission. Learn more about their pathways, goals, and resources here
Great news, Panthers! Our Green initiatives have received a tremendous boost from an HISD Nutrition Services waste reduction pilot program. When we did our waste audits, we found that the bulk of our trash is food related. Every day our cafeteria provides breakfast and lunch for over 1100 students! That is an impressive achievement, but it generates a staggering amount of trash – more than 1000 Styrofoam trays every day, plastic utensils, the wrappers from plastic utensils, the packaging from breakfast items, napkins, straws, milk cartons, juice boxes, and then there is the food waste!
Green Heroes - Litter Less Leaders
Styrogenie!
Great news, Panthers! Our Green initiatives have received a tremendous boost from an HISD Nutrition Services waste reduction pilot program. When we did our waste audits, we found that the bulk of our trash is food related. Every day our cafeteria provides breakfast and lunch for over 1100 students! That is an impressive achievement, but it generates a staggering amount of trash – more than 1000 Styrofoam trays every day, plastic utensils, the wrappers from plastic utensils, the packaging from breakfast items, napkins, straws, milk cartons, juice boxes, and then there is the food waste! |
| Kerry Flickner from FSS demonstrates Styogenie operation to Ms. Adams, Ms. Telfah, and staff from Nutrition Services |
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| We owe our wonderful new Styrogenie to the efforts of HISD Energy and Sustainability and HISD Nutrition Services |
We are thrilled to announce that we will not be sending any
more trays to the landfill! A Styrogenie from Foodservice Sustainability Solutions
was installed this week and today Ms. Adams, Ms. Telfah, and I were trained in its
operation!
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| This used to be 600 EPS trays! . |
This machine will reduce our gigantic stacks of EPS (expanded polystyrene) foam trays to a 1-2
inch thick sheet of densified foam material. These blocks will be collected and
rendered back into the base resource oil to be reused for new products. It is a
zero waste solution to our disposable lunch tray problem!
We are working on other new procedures for breakfast
disposal to help us cut down on even more waste! Each thing we do to reduce our
waste volume has so many benefits! We save money on waste removal and trash bags,
we save time and effort, and we reduce the amount of garbage in landfills! We
are so excited to have these new partners in our quest to be even cleaner and
greener!
Sunflower Stars
We welcome our Pre-Kindergartners to the Green Hero fold! Our littlest Panther Cubs love the earth too and they will be doing their part by installing and caring for the campus sunflower gardens!
Green Heroes - Litter Less Leaders
We are Panther Proud to sign on with Eco-Schools International's Litter Less Campaign this year!
Click the links to see our PSAs:
Ms. Allende's Class
Ms. Almanza's Class
Ms. Bell's Class
Ms. Caro's Class
Ms. Colmenero's Class
Ms. Hernandez's Class
Ms. Tran's Class
Green Heroes - Recycling
This essential campus leadership role has been taken on by two 2nd grades and a 4th grade. These students have assigned classes and make sure that the bins have ONLY recyclable material when they collect them each week. 2nd grade made all the campus informational signage from reused and up-cycled materials! Click HERE to see these Green Heroes at work!
PSA 2 | What to Recycle | Ms. Boyce's Class from Piney Point Elementary School on Vimeo.
PSA 1 | What to Recycle | Ms. Boyce's Class from Piney Point Elementary School on Vimeo.
Monarch Heroes
Check out the profile of our program in the Employee Spotlight on HISD Energy and Sustainability's Blog here
See our program highlighted in the National Wildlife Federation's Blog here
Also on the Eco-School Blog here
Also on the Eco-School Blog here
Spotlighted on HISD's Facebook page here
Featured on The Leader in Me's Facebook page here
Healthy Living
Our healthy living initiatives fall under three groups:
Marathon Kids
Piney Point is the largest Marathon Kids Running Club. This outstanding program incentivizes personal goal setting, daily exercise, and the benefits of running. Every student at Piney Point is a proud Marathon Kid! They all complete a minimum of 4 marathons (104.8 miles!) during the school year. Teachers are equally enthusiastic and can be seen daily taking laps with their students!
Visit their website HERE
Scenes from this year's kickoff celebration :
Visit their website HERE
Scenes from this year's kickoff celebration :
Fuel Up to Play 60
This program is sponsored by the NFL and the National Dairy Council to promote healthy living - especially in the areas of nutrition and exercise. Piney Point has a 12 person 4th ambassador team that manages our FUTP60 activities.
Visit their website HERE
HISD Nutrition Services
Visit their webpage HERE
iEARN Eco-Campus Partnership
We were so excited to be offered an opportunity to pair with a school in Taiwan! Our Monarch Heroes were so successful that they were invited to participate in a global partnership program through iEARN. Our partner school, Tu Niou Primary School in Taichung City, Taiwan and our first grade will be working on a collaborative environmental project to support our quest for the Green Flag!
You can see our Introduction video below:
Day in the Life of Ms. Leal's 1st Grade at Piney Point Elementary from Kimberly Boyce-Quentin on Vimeo.
See our other exchanges in the Eco-School links!
Sustainable Food Teams
Sustainable Food Teams
This Pathway is a joint effort between our Kinder Garden Seedling Club and our 4th grade Garden Guardians!
This year Kinder is growing a pumpkin patch for Fall Semester and a Watermelon Patch for Spring Semester!
4th grade put in a salad garden for fall and had a good crop of lettuces and spinach. Our radishes, scallions, and herbs did not perform up to expectations, but they plan to try again in the spring. At that time they will add peas, carrots, tomatoes, and cucumbers to the mix!
Check back for a video slideshow soon!
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