While students have been on vacation for several weeks now, there are those who actively prepare for the next course.
70 monitors from different school canteens Galicians are going to start or are starting, a training plan for learn to compost in their respective schools, with the organic remains of the students' menus.
Reuse, recycling, respect for the environment and education in values in the school canteen tray.
The training of dining room monitors is essential these days because officially, The plan is scheduled to start in September in 17 dining rooms in public schools in Pontevedra.
It is an environmental educational project that recovers what is left over from many of the trays of children who eat at school every day when the school year begins.
The 70 monitors that are going to start in this project, learn the basics to make the separation of organic remains from school menus correctly. Not everything is valid at the time of producing compost or natural fertilizer to later be able to reuse it, for example in the garden that the center itself may have.
The intention is that before the first quarter of the next course is being produced subscription from the remains of school menus.
Reuse and reduce what is left over
We are talking about 900 meals for each lesson and that is a lot of organic waste that can be reused to compost in composters that are also going to be installed in these schools.
Learning to reuse leftovers from school menus is a very positive idea and with which children can learn more responsible consumption.
As it is also to reorganize the food offered in the school canteens to reduce that which ends up in the garbage or with luck in the composters that are going to be installed in the Galician schools of which we are talking.
Learning on the ground
The need for children to have a healthier diet is not new, pediatricians and nutritionists have long pointed out that childhood obesity is a problem that continues to grow in our western societies.
Learning on the ground how vegetables, vegetables, the healthiest and most recommendable products for children's diet are produced, is something very interesting and highly effective.
A home garden is always an entertainment as well as a way for them to learn both health and natural sciences.
In fact, there are few centers in which activities are developed around a small school garden in which all students participate to a greater or lesser extent.
And more and more voices are raised to include agriculture as a kind of cross-cutting subject in which children can learn more practical concepts of natural sciences, physics, social and ethical values, learning hygiene, health and some notions of nutrition, fundamental for your own life as adults.
