Category: Projects

Global Goals

Lewis Bunton on

For the past semester, I have been in an elective called global goals. In this elective, you get to choose one of seventeen global goals and work on a project to help the world get closer to accomplishing it. The global goals are made by the United Nations which aims to change the world and make it a better place. The United Nations are an intergovernmental organization that was founded in 1945 and aims to bring more peace and security to the world. All

 In the first term for the first few weeks, we gained an idea of what the Global Goals are. We found out that there are 17 goals created by an organization called the United Nations(UN) whose sole aim is to make the world a better place. I partnered up with Charlie and we began deciding which Global Goal we would like to help, it did not have to be on a large scale but within a community, we chose our school community of All Saints’ College, now we had to decide on an exact goal to help. Of those 17 goals we decided on something that could help the school’s environment and from that, we decided on UN Global Goal number 11.

Goal number 11 is sustainable cities and communities, our community was All Saints’ college, initially, we thought of fundraising and putting it towards the school’s aquaponics area, then to a sustainable garden on the school oval and then finally hosting a tree planting day in partnership with the school’s grounds keeping and maintenance staff. Planting trees on the eastern side of the oval, where it is empty space unutilized planting native trees and plants would help save water which brings us to our goal of sustainable cities and communities. 

Our partnership with Mr Gale and Mr Guy has allowed us to put this tree planting day into action, with there help we have  As well as our partnership with the grounds and maintenance staff, we have organized what will happen on the day, how many plants and a choice of plants all native. We also have our partnership with the college’s advertising committee alongside them we have managed to advertise our day across many platforms including the college courier, the school’s social media pages as well as on the college screens.

Our tree planting day will occur on the 31st of July 2022, this date is specially chosen because on the 30th of July it is world plant a tree day and the 1st of August is school tree planting day so by having our planting day on the 31st it gives reason and motivation to plant.

Overall I believe that this semester was very fun and I believe that my partner and I were very helpful on the tree planting day. We helped organize the event but also advertised it and went to an expo where we gave out information. I think it was a great project to work on and it was very fun all semester long. I would definitely recommend this project for other students to take part in.

Global Goals Year 9 Term 1

Lewis Bunton on

When I was choosing my electives Global Goals seemed like a point of interest, this seemed interesting because the UN Global Goals are 17 different goals that all aim to make our planet a better place.

The United Nations is an international group consisting of 51 countries founded in 1945 after WW2 they are committed to maintaining international peace and security, creating friendly relationships between nations and promoting social progress better living and human rights.

The United Nations

Sustainable development goals are the blueprint to achieving a sustainable future they are the overarch of the United Nations goals. The concept was described in 1987 in the Bruntland Commission Report as developing the needs of the present-day without compromising the needs of the future generations.

The United Nations sustainable development goals or the Global goals consist of 17 different goals with each goal consisting of sub-goals. The 17 main Global Goals are:

  1. No Poverty
  2. Zero Hunger
  3. Good Health and well being
  4. Quality Education
  5. Gender equality
  6. Clean Water and sanitation
  7. Affordable and clean energy
  8. Decent Work and Economic growth
  9. Industy Innovation and Infrastructure
  10. Reduced Inequalites
  11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
  12. Responsible comsumption and production
  13. Climate action
  14. Life below water
  15. Life on Land
  16. Peace Justice and Strong institutions
  17. Partner ships for the goals
The Global Goals Source: http://www.globalgoals.org/Public Domain. | Download Scientific Diagram

These goals are all important because they affect every single individual living on earth including wildlife, all 7 billion people must be aware of them and are taking action to help. Only we can make the world a better place for future generations.

Information on the progress of the Global Goals is available on this website https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/progress-chart-2021.pdf

Goals that I believe have relevance to All Saint’s College and its community are Good Health and Wellbeing, Quality Education, Gender Equality and Clean Water and Sanitation.

Year 8 LifeSkills – Reflection on Neuroplasticity

Lewis Bunton on

During term 3 so far, we have learnt about Neuroplasticity and being able to train your brain, we have also learnt about Resilience and Grit, finally we learnt about Happiness.

Neuroplasticity is about changing the way you think, such as a growth mindset and fixed mindset. A growth mindset is staying positive about everything, whereas a fixed mindset is when you believe you will never get better and that you will stay the same.

The definition of Neuroplasticity is the ability to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning or experience. This definition shows that your brain is not fixed and can be made stronger. So, neuroplasticity is about making you brain stronger, making you brain stronger is basically giving your brain workouts, because your brain is a muscle, and like all muscles to make them stronger you must use them more. An example is daily-motion who over a period of 6 months made their brain stronger by doing reaction tests, memory tests. Over 6 months their research proved that it is possible to make your brain stronger.

Being able to train your brain is making your brain better at something, such as making yourself more intelligent or having a better memory. Training your brain or brain training is completing a series of activities to make yourself better at a particular thing

Nick Vujicic, once said if you can’t get a miracle, become one

The definition of grit is being resilient, not giving up, courage. An example of a gritty person is Nick Vujicic, he was born without any limbs (no legs, and arms) yet he decided instead of thinking negative, at some point he just decided that he was stuck like this and there was nothing he could do. So, Nick Vujicic makes things possible for his self.

The happiest man alive once said that to be happy you can’t hate, hate will destroy what you hate but it will also destroy you.

Happiness is an emotional state when you are feeling joy, satisfaction, contentment, and fulfillment. Doing a hobby, you like will make you happy

Stem, Sport and Wellbeing

Lewis Bunton on

Our goal of this project was to create a product to help with the mental wellbeing of a service partner of the college, or use sport and stem.

We used the design thinking process, we used this to help us on the journey, the first thing we did was empathise and decided on a target audience from the school partners. We decided on RAAFA, then we moved onto the define stage we found what these people needed whether it was a service or product. Then we began to ideate and brainstormed products some of our first ideas were a nature journal, quiz finally we began the prototype stage after we decided on our product we began designing and building the product because this job would take multiple weeks we made a plan of what we each person would do each week and followed that plan. Once our product was completed we decided to put our product to test and decided to visit RAAFA the service partner of All Saints College, at RAAFA we met on a Tuesday afternoon with retired people and asked them to test our product. Then we got feedback from the residents. In week 9 we had our presentation were we presented to parents, students and teachers at All Saints.

Some of the main capabilities that we used were Collaboration when we needed to work together in groups which required teamwork, Problem Solving when we encountered a problem such as finding a good time that suited everyone one to visit RAAFA, Resilient when , Organised. Some capabilities I developed further are my collaboration skills, organisation, resilience and effective communication.

Capabilities wheel

Our product provided mental mindfulness to the residents of RAAFA

RAAFA WA Division | Business News
Service partner of All Saints college

Our project was to put together stem and wellbeing to form a product for a target audience, our target audience was young or old people. Our final product was a mindfulness booklet for the retired residents of RAAFA.

We thought this product would be good for the residents of RAAFA because they are the most effected by Covid-19 being isolated from everyone.

I, Jaden and Austin