Save the Earth

Discover how CHIJ (Katong) Primary teaches students to care for the environment through recycling, water conservation and reducing waste.

Last updated 17 August 2026

Saving Our Earth - Together

Our Mission:

Our mission is to educate, inspire, and empower children to protect Earth's environment.

At CHIJ (Katong) Primary, we believe that every one of us has a responsibility to care for the planet we call home. Our mission is simple but powerful: to educate, inspire, and empower our students to protect Earth's environment — one small action at a time.

Through our programmes, students discover the importance of recycling, managing food waste, and separating trash the right way. But learning doesn't stop at the school gate. We encourage our students to bring these habits home, making sustainability a way of life for their families and communities too.

We want every child at CHIJ (Katong) Primary to feel proud to be part of a school that truly cares — about the environment, about the future, and about the world they will inherit. Because when young people understand the impact of their choices, they become the changemakers our planet needs.

SCHOOL WIDE PROGRAMMES

Earth Day Celebration

Save the Earth ambassadors together with Parent volunteers did their part for Earth Day by conducting recess activities for our students to educate them.

6Rs of sustainability where students learn to rethink, refuse, reduce, re-use, repair and recycle.

Composting - Informing students what composting means, how it is done, what can be turned into a compost and what can’t.

Quiz time- Students were quizzed what they have learnt from each station

Students' Reflections

Student reflections on sustainability topics including recycling, food waste, Marina Barrage, and Pulau Semakau landfill.

World Water Day Celebration

Five schoolgirls in blue uniforms pose with a blue and pink water drop mascot at a school event.

Students created a skit that creates awareness of sustaining and protecting Singapore’s 4 National Taps and how individuals can preserve and protect our precious water resources.

Four young students sit at a table with laptops in a library, with a slide about running full laundry loads visible.

Students making a pledge to save water.

Four young schoolgirls in uniforms smiling and holding small decorated paper badges in a school cafeteria.

Learning Journeys

Primary 3 Coastal Clean Up at East Coast Park

Two group photos: a large crowd outdoors near a beach with palm trees, and a smaller group in red shirts indoors.

Follow up activities in class. Poem making and Best Decorated Classroom Contest using recycled materials.

Two groups of young girls in school uniforms sit at classroom tables beside a handmade green poster titled Yummy Picnic.

Save The Earth Ambassadors Learning Journey to Sustainable Gallery

School children on a field trip learning about water, flood control dams, and NEWater, with student reflections shown.

P6 VIA Projects

The P6 students embarked on a level-wide project on saving the environment, with focus on reducing the use of plastics.

Two schoolgirls in navy uniforms present in a classroom with a projected slideshow on a screen behind them.

Members of our Sailing Club also did their part for the environment, cleaning up at Sentosa Beach. They learnt that as beach users, it is also their responsibility to keep it clean.

Groups of children and adults pose on a beach and boardwalk holding trash bags during a beach cleanup event.

Using natural sunlight as an alternative to lights and usage of fans

Save The Earth Committee conducted an assembly talk, reminding both teachers and students to switch off some lights on brighter days and switch off some fans on cooler days. Teachers conducting lessons in the afternoon are encouraged to use natural light in their classrooms instead of switching on lights.

Students in school uniforms sit at desks watching a projected screen in a classroom with bulletin boards and ceiling fans.

- Posters put up to encourage water conservation

Posters are put up in toilets and canteens to remind all on the importance of saving water.

- A challenge to show the parent volunteers a ‘clean plate’ to get a “Finish your plate” stamp

School students at a food waste awareness event with Save the Earth and Save the Planet posters about finishing food.

Colouring for lower primary

- Clean plate “Finish your plate” stamp

- Mind Body Session - Stretching Exercises

- Pledging to eat healthily

Three school scenes: children exercising outdoors, a handwritten pledge note on a fence, and a decorated hallway railing.

Our parent support group

A group of about 14 people posing together in front of a blue display board with cartoon character posters.

Our student game card

Front and back of a kids healthy eating stamp card reading "Eat Right and Stay Healthy" with a name written on it.

Composting of food scraps

Canteen vendors deposit their food waste into containers provided at each stall. These containers are collected daily and the waste is processed in a composting machine. The resulting compost is then used as fertiliser for our school gardens. On average, about 4 - 5 kg of compost is produced each term.

-Introduce different portion sizes

Posters are put up to remind students not to waste food and to help turn their food waste into fertilisers.

Four printed informational flyers about food waste and composting laid on a blue patterned surface.

Primary 2 students were assigned a Save The Earth Upcycling Project with parents/guardians.

Email on Save the Earth Upcycling Project

Condemned library books

Instead of throwing away condemned books from our school library, they are placed at the school inner courtyard, free for students to take or borrow. Students who do not have a book to read during our morning reading programme at the courtyard can also borrow these books.

A black rolling cart with three shelves stacked full of colorful books, indoors near a staircase railing.

Storybook Donation Drive

In term 4, students were encouraged to donate their used story books to the school library.

- Recycling awareness reminders and campaigns

At the start of the term, 2 Save The Earth Ambassadors were appointed for each class. Their duty include putting up the recycle bin for paper in the classrooms and encouraging their classmates to do their part in recycling.

P5 Bloobox Project: Decorating clss Bloobox is one of the three environmental initiatives done by our P5 students.

Two girls in school uniforms decorate a blue recycling box with Earth stickers; more decorated boxes shown nearby.

Talk on recycling to educate students on matters related to it.

A school recycling guide showing children sorting waste, Tetra Pak carton folding steps, and canteen recycling bin photos.

In term 2, students are encouraged to recycle papers collected in the classroom and home via a vending machine provided by SG RECYCLE. The machine is placed in the canteen for all students to recycle products made of paper.