Marlborough Primary School
After visiting Marlborough Primary School in May 2011, it wasn’t hard to see their dedication and enthusiasm for orangutans! The class room had orangutan memorabilia everywhere!
All of the kids were dressed in Orange and had been working hard raising money and awareness for the orangutans, becoming involved with Scholastic and AOP education’s joint program “Save a Tree – Save Me”. Marlborough Primary School has an Indonesian sister school and so their dedication to help orangutans will always be obvious in their classroom.
Please follow the link below to an article by local Leader newspaper on Marlborough Primary School.
Keep up the great work Marlborough Primary School!
St Brigid’s College Craft Work
Students in Year 3 at St Brigid’s College in WA studied Orangutans during term 2 in their Language and SOSE program. They let their creative flair shine and have produced Orangutans stitched onto Hessian using wool and felt. Download all the instructions and see examples of their great work. Your school can produce great orangutans stitching. Send your examples through to vicki@orangutan.org.au
Option A Sewing directly onto hessian Option B Real environment
Option B Real environment
Option B – Sewing partly completed
Option C - Over sewing felt onto hessian
Orangutan Sewing Year 3 Gold St Brigid’s procedures
Lindisfarne Primary School Helps the Orangutan
Dear AOP
We are a class of year 5 students aged 10-11 and have just adopted 2 orangutan (Beda and Ugo Blanco) to help your project. (Name: 5Jam-is-on< Nicola Jamison)
Please see some of the scanned pictures of some of the mother’s day cards the students made – please feel free to use them. The children made the cards than we photocopied them and sold them to the school community to raise funds for AOP.
My class are very keen to continue to raise funds and awareness for the Australian Orangutan Project. We have now finished our studies on the rainforest but the children are so keen we cannot stop. The children are very keen fundraisers so hopefully we’ll be back with more donations.
Again, Thank you for your awesome work in helping our furry cousins. The education website has great downloads – we really enjoyed reading the articles.
We are very passionate about this issue and would love to hear from you if you have any more ideas for us.
Please see our letter below letting you know what we have done to help the orangutan.
regards,
5J and Nicola Jamison(teacher)
29/05/09
Dear Australian Orangutan Project,
We are students from year 5J at Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School, in northern New South Wales.
5J have been doing some work towards your foundation in many ways and we are very passionate about it. We have adopted Beda, one of your orphaned orangutans, and have been fundraising towards the cause. To raise money we have been selling Mothers Day cards that we have made with an orangutan theme. Students worked hard to create artworks which were then copied and printed as cards for Mothers Day. They have been immensely popular among the students and staff and we have raised over $300.
5J Students have made many posters and signs, and written to companies explaining the need to use different oil as it contributes to orangutan mothers’ lives being lost. We have urged many people to not buy products that contain palm oil and shared some information that we have found out with them.
We’ve found that many newspaper articles that have linked in with our orangutan research including “Palm Oil Threat to biodiversity”, “Got You covered Guys”, ”Sumatran orangutan haven faces chainsaws and “Baby Orangutan hospital saves lives and melts hearts”.
We’re amazed by how many people have contributed to the cause and how much money we have raised. 5J are so glad to have helped in your goal to prevent orangutans from becoming extinct and saving as many baby orangutans as you can.
We thank you for having this foundation, as many orangutans are grateful for your support. We are planning to do more towards your foundation and keep adopting orangutans. We will be sending $320.15 to you from our fundraising around the school and we want to help more.
Yours Sincerely,
5J students
written by Jesse L.
We Can Make a Difference!
Brookfield State School in Queensland supported Tayla and Rylee in their mission to Save
the Orangutans by holding a ‘Free Dress Day Friday’ on 19th June. No school
uniform in exchange for a gold coin. Classes were very determined to raise
enough to adopt an Orangutan per class, with many students donating much
more than a gold coin. Brookfield is a small school so to raise $880 is a
huge effort. Another ‘Free Dress Day’ is being held this Friday with
donations to be added to the overall total. Tayla and Rylee would like to
send a big thankyou to Mrs Kenworthy and Mrs Drew as without their support
this would not have been possible and to all the students and teachers who
jumped on without hesitation to support the Orangutans. We CAN make a
difference!
Fun Times at North Adelaide Primary
I am a teacher at North Adelaide Primary School. In the school holidays my friends and I travelled to Malaysian Borneo and were privileged to observe up close many orangutans in rehabilitation centres. I soon became passionate about orangutans and their plight. Now I have a class of 24 Year One students who have become just as taken with orangutans as I am! At present our complete classroom program revolves around orangutans. The Adelaide Zoo orangutans have also provided a great stimulus for our learning. Kluet’s broken arm has been of great interest to the children since a child in my class was also unfortunate enough to break her arm in the playground. Following this was the excitement of Karter’s great escape!
We began by creating a rainforest in our classroom and now we have primates “swinging” everywhere! We reused plastic take-away containers to make mini rainforest environments. After creating the appropriate habitat we began searching the library for books on primates and viewing video footage of orangutans on the internet. The Librarian helped us make an electronic book based on the story “Little Tang”. The children made a beautiful mural of orangutans in a rainforest with the Art teacher (to enter in the AOP competition).
We have a toy orangutan (backpack) called Pongo. The special class helper of the day takes Pongo out to play at recess and lunch (to teach it how to climb). Sometimes Pongo helps us water our vegetable garden or watches us work on the computer. Pongo has even more fun when he goes home on weekends with a child in the class. All in all, Pongo has a more interesting social life than the teacher!
We invited a guest speaker from AOP talk to us about the impact of palm oil plantations and the illegal pet trade.
Together the children and I have written letters to politicians and food companies about the labelling of products containing palm oil and the issues of deforestation. Some quotes from 6 year old children were included in the letters. The children’s quotes were simple yet to the point.
“There are only 10 trees left in some rainforests so please stop cutting down trees to plant palm oil trees”.
“Please do not cut down any more trees and do not kill the mum of baby orangutans and do not sell the baby orangutan for a pet”.
“Dear government, please stop chopping down trees. If you do not, the orangutans will be extinct, so please stop cutting down the rainforests”.
“Stop cutting down the rainforest because we all love orangutans. Please save the orangutans”.
“Goodbye me. Save me. Do not cut down the rainforest or in ten years orangutans will be extinct”.
“Trees give us oxygen. Please stop cutting them down”.
“When you cut down rainforest the baby orangutans get scared and they loose their mother. Then they don’t know how to grow up like a real orangutan”.
“Maybe you can grow the palm oil trees somewhere where the orangutans don’t live”.
“Please government, can you tell the shopkeepers to write down if there’s palm oil or not in the
things they sell”.“Please stop cutting down the rainforest because the the orangutan will be extinct in ten years and maybe if you stop cutting down the trees then the orangutans won’t be extinct”.
The children have become very proactive in raising money for orangutan conservation and rehabilitation projects. Each morning before school they sell AOP merchandise to the school community. So far they have sold over $3,000 of merchandise! Other activities to raise money include a raffle (prizes are 3 soft toy orangutans), having a day where we dress in orange and face and hand painting orangutan style!
Soon we will be hosting a school assembly where we sing, tell jokes and share information about orangutans. Daily the children bring in stories, poems, drawings and books about orangutans.
It has been a very successful learning topic while at the same time raising awareness of the plight of the orangutans as an endangered species and how children can take action to help.
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