{"id":55210,"date":"2022-04-27T06:01:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T04:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/growing-plants-and-minds-20220426-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T19:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:56:22","slug":"growing-plants-and-minds-20220426-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/growing-plants-and-minds-20220426-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing plants and minds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Soneike High School in Highbury celebrated Earth Day on Friday 22 April by planting 1 000 indigenous trees and shrubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The planting of trees was in tune with this year\u2019s theme, \u201cInvest in our planet\u201d calling for a shift towards sustainable practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree planting ceremony was held close to the greenhouse and the spread of vegetable beds on the terrain \u2013 partly \u201cborrowed\u201d from neighbouring Highbury Primary School of which a group of Grade 7 learners joined in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soneike\u2019s head girl Cloe Bennet said being part of the school\u2019s vision and agricultural project not only taught her about the basics of growing her own fruit and vegetables, but also responsibility towards the environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPreserving it depends on us, as youth.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head boy Liyema Mbebe said he was happy to see the greenhouse being built at the school last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe agricultural learners benefit greatly as it gives them a hands-on experience.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grade 12 learner Fundisiwa Jikolo called for a need to reflect on environmental injustice such as poor communities being exposed to more pollution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese communities get alienated to nature. They are estranged and don\u2019t recognise themselves as part of nature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s up to the current generation to redress the issue whereby \u201ccoloured developments were not developed greenly\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People who are not educated about the earth and not used to seeing greenery and plants grow are psychologically oppressed, said Jikolo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe agricultural project is a great initiative to ensure we go back to a green lifestyle and the growing of our own food.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trees and shrubs planted on the day were provided by Siyabulela Sokomani, founder of Nguni Nursery in Philippi that grows indigenous plants for communities that cannot afford to buy trees by partnering with international climate mitigating organisations like One Tree Planted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Principal Ronel Baker told guests as a young teacher, in 2003, she moved to a school in Khayelitsha that was in a sad state\u2009\u2013 \u201ca sandy pit of nothing\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was \u2018\u2018this little boy\u201d that attended the school. \u201cEvery little plant we planted, every Arbor Day, he was there. For five years this little boy, Siyabulela Sokomani, planted trees. That was his dream which later became a bigger dream.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baker said for 14 years her message to the children in Khayelitsha was: \u201cThis is your environment, but you can do something about it. You are better and you can.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis young man is why we are here today. These 1\u2009000 trees come from his nursery \u2013 from this little boy who studied horticulture and became an adviser to farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baker thanked colleagues and others who \u201care part of my vision and part of what we want to do as a school to ensure these learners are going to make a difference to the world and to change the narrative of their own communities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy principal Leon Hanslo said the learners who participated could each attach a tag with their name to the tree they planted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to connect you to this tree.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanslo said \u201clike Siya\u201d they need to start propagating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is what we will start doing next in our sustainable agriculture centre, we need to grow things. The centre is in planning and will hopefully be built here in August.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_0624c7be\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3294\/6bb7b4e174c7460da9c74a438035ad3b.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/d4b2c2eadf5a444d9454fe0e522df7b2.jpg\" title=\"Thato Sondlo (Grade 11) planting her spekboom.\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Thato Sondlo (Grade 11) planting her spekboom.<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3294\/6565ddd6c50741d09b6a12173fa9cd0a.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5409fb91f667470db25ebbe6c12a5253.jpg\" title=\"From left: Tristan Pretorius, Lilitho Mtitshana and Zinedine Adams (Grade 7) of Highbury Primary School with the spekboom they planted.PHOTO: carina roux\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">From left: Tristan Pretorius, Lilitho Mtitshana and Zinedine Adams (Grade 7) of Highbury Primary School with the spekboom they planted.PHOTO: carina roux<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3294\/78f435c9cf0e499581a75a1e963a3948.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/c75edf525494455b808821169345fb6b.jpg\" title=\"Spinach \"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Spinach <\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3294\/f81ce6c1ec46447f84279f9815e611a9.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/e45526410903433392061b820606f2a9.jpg\" title=\"Learners and some staff members of Soneike High with some of the trees that were planted on Earth Day. 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PHOTO: carina roux<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stimulating learning&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanslo says the agricultural project at Soneike was born out of the need to improve learners\u2019 results in mathematics and science.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The predecessor was their STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) space programme involving modular computer chips, as used in mini satellites, that can gather weather related data (temperature, humidity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanslo says though a brilliant programme, it only involved a small group of learners, mainly achievers in maths and science. \u201cWe wanted to get more learners involved.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They decided to extend beyond the programme rules with exponential and blended learning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we can get learners to do their own observations it will stimulate learning\u2009\u2013\u2009especially maths\u2009\u2013 by making measurements and calculations, by collecting and comparing data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanslo reckons soil is an ideal medium to stimulate a love for science and maths as one can observe the influence of various environmental factors on plants including the uptake of water, transpiration, evaporation, basically the \u201claws of nature\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s about more than just stimulating learning as the programme also has value in terms of food integrity. This, Hanslo explains, is a step beyond food security\u2009\u2013 healthy food as organically grown as possible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat we are trying to do here, is small-scale regenerative agriculture. In a year or two the soil must be in a beter condition than before.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compost generated is plowed back into the soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanslo says nearby communities benefit from their surplus produce that is distributed with the help of Highbury Foundation to soup kitchens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanslo says Soneike are linking with two areas, \u201cenvironmental action\u201d and \u201cinnovation and education\u201d that form part of the United Nations\u2019 Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSchools in disadvantaged areas must approach the learning process differently. We must look at experimental learning. How can we use innovation and technology?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their science teacher is busy developing an app, says Hanslo, to scan QR codes that will be put up in their garden to reveal relevant information about a specific plant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a greenhouse and outside areas that will give us two data sets that can be compared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possibilities in future include hydroponics or aquaponics, says Hanslo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He would like to see the ideas of what\u2019s being done at the school \u201cexported\u201d to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stimulating learners to start their own vegetable gardens at home is just one way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soneike High School in Highbury celebrated Earth Day on Friday 22 April by planting 1 000 indigenous trees and 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