“What would you change if you could redesign your school?”
🌈That was the question Ms. Nguyen Thi Ha, homeroom teacher of class 5G1 at Victory Experimental Education System (a member of the EQuest Education Group), asked her students at the beginning of the school year.
Instead of imagining bigger school gates or more colorful walls, the students envisioned a greener school, one that uses energy more efficiently, creates more green spaces, and recycles waste to help protect the environment.
From that idea, the project “Green School – Green Future” was born.
🌟In this project, lessons about area, scale, and volume moved beyond textbooks. The 5G1 students used measuring tapes to calculate different areas around the campus and built a 1:100 scale model of their dream “Green School”.
Using their Math and Science knowledge, these 10-year-old students designed an eco-friendly school model featuring 27 solar panels, rooftop vegetable gardens for school meals, and a composting system that turns food waste into organic fertilizer for the garden.
Several ideas from the model are now being considered by the school for real-life implementation.
Beyond this project, Victory also organizes many sustainability-focused activities throughout the year, including Earth Day and Earth Hour campaigns, classroom green corners, weekly clean-up activities, and used battery collection drives.
At Victory, the idea of a “Green School” goes beyond theory. Learning becomes an opportunity for students to observe, explore, and actively create solutions for the world around them, turning their vision of a greener future into reality.
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🌿 This article is part of the “Green In Action” series, sharing Green initiatives across EQuest member units aligned with the Green School standards: Right Mindset – Real Action – Green Living.
