Village clean up…

This should have gone on the blog ages ago…last term the Eco schools committee helped out on a village tidy up…as you can see by our outfits, it was a lovely day!

Superspud competition

We are in the “Superspud” competition to grow potatoes – there is a blog all about it here.

No more plastic bags!

We went to the local Keystore on March 7th to help with a bag swap schme – swap 10 plasic bags for a nice Eco-friendly cotton shopper, organic & Fairtrade no less!  There are pictures to follow but a technical hitch has lost them temporarily.

 Enjoy this from the Observer instead:

Not true, of course

What are we doing?

We’ve been coming up with an action plan following our “Environmental Review” – the full plan is at the School Website but we’ve given ourselves an initial plan with a timescale for each activity at a meeting today.  We shared this with the whole school at assembly and it’s here to see too:

WASTE MINIMISATION 

Letter opener needed (reuse envelopes) – before long weekend

Collect parents’ email addresses – children to collect on scrap paper as homework task? – end of next week

See Mrs. Bradley & Mrs. Cameron about recycled paper/toilet paper/hand towels – meet week beginning 11th Feb.

Paper recycling bin in each classroom – week ending 15th Feb

ENERGY

Posters to be done for classes to remind them to switch off lights/close doors/turn off computers (posters to be double sided and laminated so that they can be turned over depending on what our current theme is.   Homework task?  Class lessons? – by 15th Feb.

SCHOOL GROUNDS Ask Pupil Council to explore ideas for new play equipment/playground markings – DONE: Pupil council investigating this right now!  

As part of the Eco-Schools work, we are required to report back on progress so watch this space!

Going for Bronze!

Today we have applied for our Eco-Schools Bronze Award!

Here we are online doing just that:

The certificate should be with us in around two weeks.

Eco schools blog

At today’s Eco-School committee meeting we decided that as part of our review process we wanted to do lots of things, two of which were:

1 – Save paper

2- Communicate with the rest of the school and the wider community

 The first step towards achieving both of these things is here,  the Eco-Schools blog.

We’ve got lots of things in our action plan and we’ll be reviewing it again this week before sharing some of our ideas with the rest of the school. 

Watch this space!