14th  June  2023

Dear students,

Summer holidays are already here. 🙂

I wish you incredible holidays and may these days become great and unforgettable.

Enjoy yourselves!

Click  HERE  to see some of your awesome works 

done during this school year. Congrats!

Frank in May 1942, two months
before she and her family went
into hiding

 12th June

Do  you 

know  that ...

"Birthday - Anne Frank (1929-1945) was born in Frankfurt, Germany. 

She is perhaps the best known victim of the Nazi Holocaust.  

Anne and her family moved from Germany to Amsterdam to flee Nazi persecution, then went into hiding in a small attic after Holland was invaded by Nazis. 

Anne, a girl on the verge of womanhood, was unable to go outside for any reason. 

In 1942, she began a diary to cope with the boredom, fear, annoyances, and loneliness of captivity. 

Her family's hiding place was eventually discovered and Anne and her family were deported to Nazi concentration camps. 

She contracted typhus and died at Bergen-Belsen in 1945. 

After the war, her father published her diary, which inspired the world, revealing a young woman who had managed to remain hopeful, despite it all."

(in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank)

Plastics are the largest, most harmful and persistent fraction of marine litter,
accounting for at least 85 per cent of total marine waste.
PHOTO:InsideCreativeHouse/Adobe Stock

5th June

Thought of 

the day

“Environment is no one’s property to destroy; 

it’s everyone’s responsibility to protect.” 

Mohith Agadi 

"Solutions to plastic pollution

More than 400 million tonnes of plastic is produced every year worldwide, half of which is designed to be used only once. Of that, less than 10 per cent is recycled.

An estimated 19-23 million tonnes end up in lakes, rivers and seas annually. That is approximately the weight of 2,200 Eiffel Towers all together.

Microplastics – tiny plastic particles up to 5mm in diameter – find their way into food, water and air. It is estimated that each person on the planet consumes more than 50,000 plastic particles per year –and many more if inhalation is considered.

Discarded or burnt single-use plastic harms human health and biodiversity and pollutes every ecosystem from mountain tops to the ocean floor.

With available science and solutions to tackle the problem, governments, companies and other stakeholders must scale up and speed actions to solve this crisis.

This underscores the importance of this World Environment Day  in mobilizing transformative action from every corner of the world.

(...)

Join the #BeatPlasticPollution (https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/) movement through the official website of World Environment Day 2023. You can access more interesting information, the actions you can carry out to contribute, as well as a large number of materials to promote the movement through social media. Every performance, no matter how small, matters. (...)"

in https://www.un.org/en/observances/environment-day

 29th May

Do you know that ...

on this date it is celebrated 

the Memorial Day?

"Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 29 in 2023). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the Civil War), it was expanded after World War I.

Many people observe this holiday by visiting cemeteries and memorials. A national moment of remembrance takes place at 3 p.m. local time. Another tradition is to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff from dawn until noon local time. Volunteers often place American flags on each grave site at National Cemeteries.

Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars take donations for poppies in the days leading up to Memorial Day; the poppy's significance to Memorial Day is the result of the John McCrae poem "In Flanders Fields. (...)" 

(in https://www.cute-calendar.com/event/memorial-day/41379.html )