Showing posts with label Eco School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eco School. Show all posts
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Sponsored fun run
On October 10th we hope to hold our annual sponsored fun run. Watch this space to see how well the children got on!
Harvest time
Harvest time is upon us and this year we were able to take our first harvest from the school garden. We have gathered runner beans, tomatoes, chard, broad beans and also apples and blackberries from other places in the school grounds.
The garden now has fully working gutteridge and waterbutts and phase two of the development is about to get underway. We hope to as add another planting bed and places bark chipping in all the walkways as well as install efficient composting systems.
The garden now has fully working gutteridge and waterbutts and phase two of the development is about to get underway. We hope to as add another planting bed and places bark chipping in all the walkways as well as install efficient composting systems.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Garden July 2008
The garden has progressed hugely since it was started in April. We had hoped this year just to grow a few things to 'wet people's appetite' for gardening. It seems we were successful! Lots of landscaping and building work as well as planting has taken place and the garden is really taking shape.
A Greener School
Focus week - caring for the 
environment
This week has been our focus
week looking at how the school and all the people who use it can be 'greener.'
Class 1 have been focusing on wildlife and gardens and have been tending their vegetables as well as focusing on the abundant wildlife in our school grounds and how we can take care of it. They also made mini gardens (see photo above)
Class 2 have been looking at the three 'R's' Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. They have managed to get some free recycling bins for all the classrooms and have produced leaflets to help their parents become recyclers.
Class 3 have investigated the idea of carbon footprints and have each made a pledge to try and reduce theirs for the week. Little things count and the pledges range from cutting the hours of TV they watch to switching off lights when they leave a room.
A clothing bank has been permanently installed in the school car park and the community have been invited to use it whenever they need to. Our school garden is being developed at a much quicker rate than we could have hoped for thanks to willing and very able parents.
We also had a visit from the county waste service and they got involved in making paper with the children as well teaching them about composting and doing some weaving work using old bicycle wheels!
As a school we did an audit of what we can do to be as green as possible then we gave ourselves a traffic light score. There were a lot of green and amber but a few on red. This will give us our targets as a whole school and will ensure that the focus on caring for our environment doesn't disappear.
environmentThis week has been our focus
week looking at how the school and all the people who use it can be 'greener.'Class 1 have been focusing on wildlife and gardens and have been tending their vegetables as well as focusing on the abundant wildlife in our school grounds and how we can take care of it. They also made mini gardens (see photo above)
Class 2 have been looking at the three 'R's' Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. They have managed to get some free recycling bins for all the classrooms and have produced leaflets to help their parents become recyclers.
Class 3 have investigated the idea of carbon footprints and have each made a pledge to try and reduce theirs for the week. Little things count and the pledges range from cutting the hours of TV they watch to switching off lights when they leave a room.
A clothing bank has been permanently installed in the school car park and the community have been invited to use it whenever they need to. Our school garden is being developed at a much quicker rate than we could have hoped for thanks to willing and very able parents.
We also had a visit from the county waste service and they got involved in making paper with the children as well teaching them about composting and doing some weaving work using old bicycle wheels!
As a school we did an audit of what we can do to be as green as possible then we gave ourselves a traffic light score. There were a lot of green and amber but a few on red. This will give us our targets as a whole school and will ensure that the focus on caring for our environment doesn't disappear.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The beginning
Class 1 and 2 have made a good start planting a variety of flowers and vegetables ready to put into the new raised beds. The children will be keeping watch over the new shoots and will have to take care of them so that they are at their best when replanting into the soil.
The beginning
Class 1 and 2 have made a good start planting a variety of flowers and vegetables ready to put into the new raised beds. The children will be keeping watch over the new shoots and will have to take care of them so that they are at their best when replanting into the soil.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Healthy School Launch
We will be working towards Healthy School Status from April this year. For further information click here and continue to watch this space
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