Sustainability Camp for Educators with Temasek Polytechnic and Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School 26 June 2026
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26 Jun 2025
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We were thrilled to contribute to the Sustainability Camp for Educators series, organised by Temasek Polytechnic’s School of Design. On 26 June 2025, The Circular Classroom organised a hands-on workshop for 99 teachers and staff members of Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School (KCPSS). Set against a sustainability theme, this unique event blended creativity, technology, and textile reuse to initiate conversations—and actions—around circularity in education. The workshop invited KCPSS teachers to work in teams using their pre-loved KCPSS uniforms as their primary material. Strips of dark blue and white fabric—harvested from old school uniforms—were meticulously cut and intricately woven together to form a large-scale, interactive artwork: a functional QR code that leads to the KCPSS school website. This activity aimed to create a mindset shift—one that blends tradition with innovation, and waste with possibility. Around the border of the framed QR code, teachers hand-sewed their initials onto small squares of uniform fabric. The workshop was preceded by a thematic introduction, where we shared: The global and local impact of textile waste The externalities behind fast fashion and their microplastics Why Singapore must rethink school uniform disposal How educators play a vital role in shaping sustainable mindsets The hands-on experience of transforming preloved uniforms into a tech-textile artwork helped them reframe waste as a resource—and how educators could carry this perspective into their classrooms. Our heartfelt thanks to Temasek Polytechnic School of Design for hosting and supporting this initiative and the teachers of KCPSS for their enthusiasm, creativity, and openness,
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