Livestream Water Conservation talk @ Stamford and CHIJ Toa Payoh Primary (Mar)

To commemorate 2020 World Water Day (WWD), Mdm Jackie Chua, a teacher in Stamford Primary, invited Earth Society to conduct a “Water Conservation” Assembly for the school cohort on 11 Mar. This is the 3^th time Stamford Primary invited us to speak to their students.

Due to the COVID situation in Singapore, the Assembly talk was changed to a talk for a small group of students in the Computer room with the school technical team video-recording the talk and live-streaming it to the school cohort. The talk was projected onto the projector screen of each classroom and the students listened to the talk in the classrooms.

On 11 Mar, Earth Society team reached Stamford Primary at 7.15 am. Mdm Jackie Chua escorted us to the Computer room where the ICT team set up a video camera to record and live-stream the presentation.

We conducted a “Water Conservation” talk for the school cohort from 7.30 am to 8 am. We presented on “Water and Climate change”, showing United Nation’s 2020 WWD message that Climate change is causing more droughts and floods in the world. We also showed Global water shortage, and shared PUB’s 5 tips to save 140 litres of water at Home.

We also shared that the bulk of a person’s daily water usage is embedded in the food we eat. United Nations shows that a person drinks 2 to 4 litres of water a day, uses about 150 litres of water at home a day, but ‘eats’ 2000 to 5000 litres of water a day. (embedded in the food that we eat.) It takes 200 litres of water to produce 1 kg of veggies, but 15,400 litres of water to produce 1 kg of Beef. By reducing meat consumption, we can save 1000 litres of water a day. By supporting 1 meatless day, we can save 1600 litres of water that day.(equivalent to saving 10 days of water usage at home.)

Mrs Jennifer Kwek, Level Head Science in CHIJ Toa Payoh Primary, invited Earth Society to conduct a “Water Conservation” Assembly for the school cohort on 25 Mar. This is the 3^th time CHIJ Toa Payoh Primary invited us to speak to their students.

Due to the COVID situation, the Assembly talk was changed to a presentation in the Science Lab with the school technical team video-recording the talk and live-streaming it to the school cohort.

On 25 Mar, Earth Society team arrived in CHIJ Toa Payoh Primary at 12.15 pm. Mrs Jennifer Kwek escorted us to the Science Lab where the ICT team video recorded the talk. We conducted a ‘Water Conservation” talk (similar to the above talk) to the school cohort from 12.35 pm to 1.05 pm. The students watched the live-streamed presentation in their respective classrooms.

After the talk, Mrs Jennifer Kwek helped us to compile some feedbacks from the teachers and students who watched the talk in the classrooms.

Teachers’ feedback:

Feedback from Stamford Primary’s teachers:
- very informative and educational.
- videos and language used in the ppt is suitable for primary students to understand.
- duration is a little long for students to stay focus.

Feedback from CHIJ Toa Payoh Primary’s teacher:
Please send us some of the video links that are showed during the presentation. They are useful for teachers to follow-up or to upload for further reference in Google in classrooms. Content is useful for P6 students.

Students’ feedback:

The content of the talk was very educational and helped raised my awareness. I appreciated the many facts provided to promote saving water which were interesting, yet easy to understand.  

- Natalie Tong, Student, CHIJ Toa Payoh Primary 

The videos were interesting and there was a lot of info and facts about water. One video tells us how meat uses more water to produce than vegetables. The videos also show us how to save water. 
– Charleen Boon, Student, CHIJ Toa Payoh Primary

There was a lot of content and it was easy to understand. Plus, the video made it more entertaining. It motivated me to start saving water and adopt Meatless Monday. – Hannah Tang, Student, CHIJ Toa Payoh Primary