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HAVERGAL COLLEGE
Junior School
Student Initiatives
When asked,
What do you care about?
many Junior School students expressed a
deep concern for this big, beautiful Earth.
Tara Prole
,
Aniela Stanek,
Mackenzie Pabbies
and
Katarina Dlacic
(Grade 3)
have been researching the
preservation of milkweed
and its importance for
monarch butterflies.
Lulu Deluca
,
Katie
Sievenpiper
and
Eliza Brown
(Grade 4) are passionate about
conserving the Northern
White Rhino.
Zoe Safran
(Grade 4) focuses
her energy on the conservation
of lions.
Caroline Vesey
,
Sarah Hunt
and
Ava El-Ayari
(Grade 4) are
passionate about sea turtles.
Jessica Yi
(Grade 3) has been
researching the debate around
de-extinction genetics, and
claims that scientists could
revive species such as the dodo
bird or wooly mammoth.
Jennipher Polygenis
and
Danielle Stavropoulos
(Grade 5) were inspired by
reading about Malala Yousafzai
and the state of girls’ education
in Pakistan. They decided to
host a trivia game to educate
their classmates about this topic.
Jennie Morris
(Grade 5) has
been learning about Heart
to Heart, an organization
that aims to bring Israeli and
Palestinian youth together at
a Canadian summer camp.
With the support of friend Lily
Jilesen Hancock (Grade 4),
Jennie bravely called one of the
organization’s leaders to ask
some of her burning questions
about how the camp works.
Kaitlyn Daley
(Grade 2) and
Callia Newall
(Grade 3) care
about the health of our planet.
Both of them have created
special projects that investigate
the effects of litter and pollution
and ways we can all help
preserve the environment.
Kaitlyn made a poster that was
posted around the Junior School.
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