Planting SEEDS of Sustainability
November 22, 2011
From pulling broom on Mt. Tolmie to favouring re-useable bags, purchasing bikes for boarding or replacing the aging boiler in School House, SMUS is spearheading many different projects that reduce our environmental impact. A new initiative, Green Schools, is the next step in our evolution. Over the next six months, SMUS will try to create and document 100 projects that encourage students to be environmentally responsible and to take personal action at school and with their families. For each project we complete, SMUS receives one point with the goal of earning 100 points by Earth Day 2012 and being certified as a Green School by the Society, Environment, and Energy Development Studies (SEEDS) foundation.
Here are two recent examples of initiatives, large and small, at SMUS.
Initiative #1: Sustainability at a Boiling Point
The school really put their weight behind the Green Schools project when they replaced the boiler in School House. Craig Farish explains how the new boiler works.
Initiative #24: Flushing out Waste
It begins with a litre of water, but will save over 250,000 litres by the end of the school year. Kalkidan Amare, Lihani Du Plessis and Ethel Kiggundu show Harvey Head of House Rio Hong and his roommate Eugene Tang how to displace water in their toilet.
Initiative #33: Tar Trek
Tar Trek is a documentary about the Alberta tar sands by seniors Daniel Cameron and Liam Maclure. They completed it on their own time this past summer.
Prefects Talk Leadership at the Middle School
November 22, 2011
Last week, Head Girl Gaby Jeliazkov, Head Boy Quinn Kliman and Liam Maclure visited the Middle School to talk to the Grade 8 students about what leadership means to them.
Music by Tinyfolk – “We Are All Bears”
Service at SMUS
July 14, 2011
A profile of the SMUS service program by CHEK news, highlighting community service’s growing importance in university applications as well as its significance to future generations.
Walk for Water
May 12, 2011
Becky Anderson talks to Walk for Water organizers and the experiential program students who participated in the annual service event.
War Child Canada: Keep the Beat
October 25, 2010
4:02
SMUS has been a long-time supporter of War Child Canada’s Keep the Beat campaign and War Child decided to include us in their promotional video for Keep the Beat.
Grade 5 Students Talk Leadership
October 22, 2010
2:39
All students at the Junior School are encouraged to be leaders. Each student prepared for this assembly in their Life Skills class and each of them made a speech in front of their parents, the teachers and children of the Junior School about what leadership meant to them.
Amazing Kid – Liam Maclure
October 15, 2010
2:02
Save-On-Foods Amazing Kid: Liam Maclure.
Spread the Love, Make a Change
April 22, 2010
3:37
DJ Legit and MC Marchand perform the Tom Zheng/Justin Ko composition “Spread the Love, Make a Change” accompanied by Margaret Skinner. This song is dedicated to Spread the Net (spreadthenet.org) – a campaign to raise awareness and help wipe out death by Malaria. The goal is to raise $5 million in three years for UNICEF to purchase and distribute bed nets to families in Liberia and Rwanda and educate recipients on their usage
We Day festivities
October 5, 2009
1:30
Over 30 of our students attended the We Day festivities in Vancouver, a Free the Children
event that celebrates the contributions of young people to
international issues and features many speakers and special guests
involved in changing the world. The entire event was streamed live on
CTV and included speakers from the Dalai Lama to Dr. Jane Goodall to
Sarah McLachlan.
Steve Nash Returns to SMUS
October 2, 2009
7:30
It was an exciting morning on the SMUS campus, as Steve Nash ‘92 stopped by to talk to some of his former teachers, answer questions from current students and visit his former athletic stomping grounds. Students from all three schools cheered for Steve as he took the stage, introduced by his former coach Ian Hyde-Lay.
Steve, who was in town to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Victoria, spoke to students about what it takes to achieve excellence, how he stays in shape, his commitment to improving the world through his foundation, and whether or not he can make a slam dunk (he can).