SWAMI VIVEKANAND

INTERNATIONAL

SCHOOL

WELCOME TO

ENVIRONMENTAL &

SUSTAINABILITY

PROGRAMME

Empowering Tomorrow Through

Comprehensive Environmental Education

2024 – 2025

🌿 OUR THEME

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Empowering Tomorrow

A Comprehensive Environmental

and Sustainability Education

🌱 Integrating sustainability across all subjects and grade levels

🔗 Connecting classroom learning to real-world environmental impact

♻️ Fostering eco-conscious habits through hands-on activities

🤝 Building partnerships with NGOs and environmental organisations

📊 Using data, analysis, and student-led campaigns to drive change

🎯 Vision & Mission

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OUR VISION

"Interconnected Learning

for a Sustainable Future"

✦ A future where every student understands their role in protecting the planet

✦ Schools as living laboratories for sustainable practices

✦ Communities inspired by youth-led environmental action

✦ Education that bridges knowledge with responsible citizenship

OUR MISSION

To integrate Environmental & Sustainability Education across all subjects, fostering a holistic understanding of the interconnection between human and natural systems.

🌍 Cross-curricular environmental education

🧪 Hands-on learning and real-world projects

📣 Student-led campaigns and awareness drives

🤝 NGO & community partnerships

⭐ Our Highlights

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🎒 No Bag Day

Students participated in a designated No Bag Day to focus on environmental activities and hands-on learning beyond textbooks.

📢 Awareness Assembly

Whole-school assemblies conducted to spread awareness about environmental issues, climate change, and sustainable living.

🚶 Campaigning Programme

Students took to the streets and social media to campaign for environmental causes, spreading awareness in the community.

📋 Questionnaire Analysis

Students designed and distributed questionnaires to analyse community awareness and habits around sustainability.

🏫 Our School Audit

A comprehensive audit of the school's own environmental footprint covering energy, water, waste, and biodiversity was conducted.

📚 Sub Themes — Education for Sustainable Development

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Environmental and sustainability concepts are woven across all subjects, ensuring students develop a 360° understanding of our planet.

📝 English

Climate Change & Global Warming

🔬 Science

Pollution Prevention & Management

🌍 Geography

Human Impact on Environment

📜 History

Human–Nature Relationship Through Ages

📐 Maths

Data Analysis of Environmental Impact

🎨 Art & Craft

Waste Management & Upcycling

💧 Environmental Ed.

Sustainable Water Management

♻️ Waste Management

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & Refuse

Distinguished Guest — BMC Commissioner Visit

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Mr. Lalit Talekar

BMC Commissioner — Solid Waste Management

A landmark visit where Mr. Lalit Talekar addressed SVIS students, sharing insights on urban waste management, civic responsibility, and the critical role young citizens play in keeping Mumbai clean and green.

☀️ Solar Panels at School — Powering a Greener Future

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Why Solar Matters

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Clean, renewable solar energy powers key areas of the school campus

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Reduces the school's carbon footprint significantly each year

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Students directly observe real-world sustainable energy in action

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Serves as a live case study for energy & environmental lessons

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Positions SVIS as a model green school in Kandivali

Empowering Tomorrow — Our Pledge

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I pledge to make sustainability a priority in my life. I understand that my actions, behaviours, and choices make an impact on society, the environment, and the economy.

I pledge to make choices that will benefit the quality of life for myself and advocate for choices that benefit the lives of others. I will take this pledge with confidence in my decisions and will not take this commitment lightly.

— Sustainability Pledge, SVIS 2024–25

Environmentalist Zidaan Castellino

inspires SVIS Students on

Sustainability & Responsibility

Our Associate Partners

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SVIS collaborates with leading environmental organisations to provide students with real-world exposure and meaningful sustainability experiences.

Poorna Earth

A social venture that collects waste and converts it into beautiful, reusable home & garden décor pieces, promoting circular economy principles.

📌 Waste → Art upcycling initiative at SVIS

e-Nirmalaya LLP

(e-Waste)

Specialises in collecting and responsibly recycling electronic waste to conserve natural resources and mitigate environmental pollution.

📌 e-Waste Collection Drive partner

Garbage Free India

Mission: Minimize waste generation, segregate with care, implement proper disposal, and recycle with flair across communities.

📌 Community waste awareness campaigns

Green Nagar Foundation

Focuses on creating awareness about one's responsibility towards the environment through grassroots action and community engagement.

📌 Initiating Change. Inspiring Youth.

Global Green

Resonance Foundation

Core objective is to create awareness about environmental responsibility — Initiating Change and Inspiring Youth through green education.

📌 Environmental education & youth programmes

Our Associate Partners

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Poorna Earth

📌 Waste → Art upcycing initiative at SVIS

e-Nirmalaya LLP

(e-Waste)

📌 e-Waste Collction rive partner

Garbage Free India

📌 Community waste awareness campaigns

Green Nagar Foundation

📌 Initiating Change. Inspiring Youth.

Global Green

Resonance Foundation

📌 Environmental education & youth programmes

🏅 Certificate of Enrolment — Jane Goodall Institute

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🌿

Roots &

Shoots Programme

Jane Goodall Institute India

SVIS is proud to be officially enrolled in the Roots & Shoots Programme 2024–2025 of the Jane Goodall Institute India, committed to promoting coexistence between all natural species and taking action for a better world.

Global Recognition 🏆

🔄 Our Ongoing Activities

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💻 E-Waste Drive

Students actively collect and responsibly hand over used electronics to certified recyclers, preventing toxic landfill waste.

🌱 Composting

Organic waste from the school canteen and garden is composted on campus, producing rich manure for the school garden.

🌳 Campaigning in National Park

SVIS students take their environmental message beyond the classroom with awareness campaigns at Sanjay Gandhi National Park.

♻️ Treasure Wonders

Turning waste into wonder — an upcycling activity where students create useful items from discarded materials.

🌱 Composting — Turning Waste into Wonder

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What

We

Compost

🍂 Fallen leaves

🥗 Canteen waste

🌺 Floral waste

🌿 Garden cuttings

🌍 Impact: SVIS students have been actively composting organic waste on campus since 2024, producing natural fertilizer used in the school's Plantopia garden and reducing canteen waste sent to landfills by over 60%.

💻 E-Waste Drive — Recycling for a Cleaner Tomorrow

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What We Collected

📱 Mobile phones: 15

💻 Laptops: 1

⌨️ Keyboards: 2

🖥 Monitors: 1

🎧 Earbuds Sets: 6

🔌 Charger Adapters: 19

📺 TV Remotes: 17

⚡ Cables etc.: ~17 kg

Total: 51 KG of e-Waste responsibly recycled via e-Nirmalaya LLP & BMC

🌿 Inauguration of SVIS Plantopia

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🌱 About SVIS Plantopia

SVIS Plantopia is the school's living plant nursery — a lush space where over 200 numbered plant pots are maintained and cared for by students. This hands-on initiative teaches students about biodiversity, plant care, and ecological responsibility. The garden uses compost produced on campus as fertilizer, completing a beautiful sustainability loop from waste to growth.

🏖️ Outreach — Beach Cleaning Drive, Bandra

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🌊 SVIS students joined hundreds of participants for a large-scale beach cleaning drive at Bandra, collecting plastic waste and raising awareness about marine pollution.

♻️ Plastic Segregation Drive

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Students segregated plastic waste collected from classrooms and common areas, sorting by type before responsible disposal with partner organisations.

📖 Grade-Wise Academic Activities

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Grade VI 🎭

Jingle Mascots

Students created advertisements promoting organic products, combining creativity with environmental awareness to deliver powerful eco-friendly messages.

Grade VII 🎤

Dramatic Dynamites

Students recited poems or delivered speeches about environmental concerns using voice modulation and intonation — bringing eco-issues to life through drama.

Grade VIII 🎭

Meticulous Monologuists

Students performed monologues embodying one of the 5 elements of Nature — Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space — creating powerful first-person perspectives.

📊 Analysis of the Theme — Data & Digital Outreach

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📋 Google Form Survey

Students designed and distributed an online questionnaire to gauge community awareness on environmental issues, sustainability habits, and climate change knowledge.

🔗 forms.gle/mMwggDqX9bJc2wGq6

🎙️ Campaign Podcast Video

Students produced an impactful campaign podcast video sharing their sustainability journey and calling the wider community to action on environmental issues.

🔗 youtu.be/9pHeqZjFb_s

📰 Media Coverage — SVIS Goes Green!

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🏆 National News Recognition

Swami Vivekanand International School goes green with support of BMC and Environmentalists

ANI | Sep 18, 2024

SVIS's environmental event drew 500+ attendees including dignitaries, PTA members, class representatives, alumni, and parents — all coming together to support sustainability.

500+ Attendees • National Media Coverage • Sep 2024

This feature on ANI (South Asia's Leading Multimedia News Agency) highlights SVIS's leadership in environmental education in Mumbai.

🎓 Academic Culmination — Educational Roots, Sustainable Wings

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🌳 Educational Roots

🕊️ Sustainable Wings

✦ A grand year-end showcase of all sustainability learnings

✦ Students presented projects across Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink, Refuse

✦ Live displays of composting, e-waste, and upcycled art

✦ Parents, teachers, and guests celebrated student achievements

✦ Reinforced the school's commitment to green education

SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT

Together, we can build a greener, cleaner, and more sustainable tomorrow.

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info@svischool.com

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www.svischool.com

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Swami Vivekanand International School & Junior College | Environmental & Sustainability Programme | 2024 – 2025

"The Earth does not belong to us — we belong to the Earth."