School District 62 (Sooke)

3067 Jacklin Road  Victoria, British Columbia Canada V9B 3Y7
Phone: (250) 478-5501  Fax: (250) 478-2879  Attendance: (250) 391-4717  email: belmont@sd62.bc.ca 

Belmont's Green Teams

Many of Belmont's teachers and students are engaging in important culture changing activities. This page showcases their environmental initiatives.

What's New?

Belmont's new Eco-Committee met to discuss a number of action plans for the coming year. These include:

  • implementation of a reusable white board pens
  • reducing the number of phonebooks
  • improving our blue box program
  • providing opportunities to celebrate green days
    (see our events calendar)
  • encouraging school-wide participation in Earth Hour, Earth Day, environmental stewardship, recycling and energy conservation.

To make a comment or suggestion, or to submit an anti-litter slogan, go to http://bssgreenmachine.weebly.com/.

Interesting Links...

Leadership's Recycling Depot

A new day has dawned on the West Shore! Every 2nd Saturday, you can now recycle Styrofoam, milk, soy and soup cartons, soft plastics and more closer to home!

Depots at Belmont 2009/2010:

October 10

November 14

December 12

January 9

February 13

March 13

April 10

May 8

June 12

July 10

August 14

September 11

Pacific Mobile Depots @ Belmont Secondary School
Staff Parking Lot (north lot on Jacklin near Kelly Rd)
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
(Now accepting Debit, MC, Visa & Amex)

This initiative is a joint venture of Belmont Secondary School (Sooke School District) and Climate Action West Shore, West Shore Chamber of Commerce. 20% of the funds raised on the West Shore through Pacific Mobile Depots will stay in our community to support green learning activities.

For more information on accepted items click on the recycle icon above to open their flyer.

Please visit the Pacific Mobile Depots’ website www.pacificmobiledepots.com for information on requested donations for each of the item categories being accepted for recycling.

Contact Mr. Marseille for more info.

The Environmental Club

Upcoming Events:

Useful Links:

Precycling - Practical Tips
(from the Edmonton Journal )

  • Don't buy pre-packaged produce.
  • Avoid all disposable products.
  • Pack your own lunch in reusable containers.
  • Carry a travel mug.
  • Avoid the paper versus plastic dilemma.
  • Buy large single containers to store non-perishable foods you use regularly such as cereals and grains. Put manageable amounts in reusable, smaller containers for everyday use.
  • Skip Styrofoam.
  • Compare the size of the package to the size of the product.
  • Buy fruit and vegetables loose.
  • Take your laptop or hand-held device with you to meetings to record notes electronically.
  • Do all your banking and pay bills online.
  • Eliminate junk mail.

    SOURCE: Halifax Regional Municipality

Contact Ms. Choma for more info.

Environmental Stewardship Teams

As part of International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) Belmont students and staff adopted a green initiative we call "Environmental Stewardship of the Belmont Landscape".

The school-wide program began in April 2008 during Earth Week with the distribution of garbage bags, gloves and nifty nabbers to the head stewards of each zone. The volunteer teachers and students then dedicated a few minutes each week to cleaning up the school grounds.

More and more students are making a concerted effort to deposit their garbage in the bins provided and, although the crows and gulls continue to undermine our efforts from time to time, we seem to be getting the upper-hand on the problem.

The Environmental Stewardship teams hope to take advantage of sunny days to deal with the some of the more neglected areas of our landscape. We hope that members of the community will help us by refraining from leaving their garbage on the property adjacent to the school. 

Thanks from the Belmont Environmental Stewardship teams!

NOTE: Please donate your used grocery bags to the red bag in the front office.

Contact Ms. Vos-Guenter for more info.