Mrs Harrow runs a very busy Eco Team. Find out what they've been up to!
Eco Team Information
We have an Eco Team that is made up of children from Years 1-6, who have volunteered, and a staff member. The children are really keen! We are hoping to encourage a Governor and/or a parent to help too. We will be looking at our Action Plan and doing lots of different things to improve our school environment and to improve sustainability.
The Eco Team are also responsible for making sure that everyone is following our Eco Code and that everyone in school knows what we're doing and joins in too!
Big Battery Hunt
We have decided to launch a very exciting campaign called the Big Battery Hunt.
In school the Eco Team will show how important it is to recycle batteries and what happens when people do not.
Every child has been challenged to find and collect as many USED batteries as possible. They can ask other family members and neighbours, go to work spaces, places of worship, local businesses and the wider community to enlist everyone to help make sure that no battery ends up in landfill.
Each family has been supplied with a collection box to fill with as many used AAA, A, C and D batteries as they can find. Please bring this box back into school when it is full (or by 24th May) so that we can add it to the main container and enter the competition. We need to collect as many used batteries as we possibly can!
Please visit https://nationalschoolspartnership.com/initiatives/bigbatteryhunt/ for more information about the campaign plus a break-down of all the prizes that the school could win.
*Please see the base of the collection box for safety instructions.
The competition ends on Monday 3rd June, so please make sure everyone brings in their batteries before half term.
We will still be collecting batteries to recycle after 3rd June, so everyone can add their batteries to the container and then take their collecting box home again and continue collecting!
Happy Hunting!
There is also a pupil activity booklet for Key stage 2 children with fun activities for the children to do. If you'd like it for your child(ren) then here it is...
The Eco Team are also responsible for making sure that everyone is following our Eco Code and that everyone in school knows what we're doing and joins in too!
Big Battery Hunt
We have decided to launch a very exciting campaign called the Big Battery Hunt.
In school the Eco Team will show how important it is to recycle batteries and what happens when people do not.
Every child has been challenged to find and collect as many USED batteries as possible. They can ask other family members and neighbours, go to work spaces, places of worship, local businesses and the wider community to enlist everyone to help make sure that no battery ends up in landfill.
Each family has been supplied with a collection box to fill with as many used AAA, A, C and D batteries as they can find. Please bring this box back into school when it is full (or by 24th May) so that we can add it to the main container and enter the competition. We need to collect as many used batteries as we possibly can!
Please visit https://nationalschoolspartnership.com/initiatives/bigbatteryhunt/ for more information about the campaign plus a break-down of all the prizes that the school could win.
*Please see the base of the collection box for safety instructions.
The competition ends on Monday 3rd June, so please make sure everyone brings in their batteries before half term.
We will still be collecting batteries to recycle after 3rd June, so everyone can add their batteries to the container and then take their collecting box home again and continue collecting!
Happy Hunting!
There is also a pupil activity booklet for Key stage 2 children with fun activities for the children to do. If you'd like it for your child(ren) then here it is...
BIg Schools' Bird Watch 2019
In February some of the Eco Team took part in the Big Schools' Birdwatch. We identified birds that visited our school grounds and counted how many we could see. The new HMS Shipshrek is actually quite a good bird hide! Mia sat and observed the birds from one end and Lana, Lily and Mrs Harrow spotted blue tits from the other end!
See the graph to compare this years results to 2017, when we last did the Bird Watch.
| graph_comparing_2017_and_2019.pdf |
Great Big School Clean March 2019
On Friday 22nd March the Eco Team took part in Keep Britain Tidy's Great Big School Clean. This is part of the Great British Spring Clean 2019.
We went out on a litter pick in the school grounds and in the village. Five members of the eco team did a fantastic job of finding litter within the school grounds. We even tidied up the car park and put the leaves out in the garden waste bag which the binmen collected for recycling! We noticed that nearly all the rubbish we found was plastic wrappers and packets.
Three eco team members went along School Road to the community center picking up lots of litter. Again it was mostly plastic, as well as take away cups, food packaging, cans and glass. Most of us loved using the grabbers and we were all fantastic Litter heroes!!
Last year's eco team did an assembly about Litter. See their Powerpoint below the slideshow.
We are proud to be Litter Heroes and make our school and community environments better places for us and wildlife. Please see the photos of our litter pick below.
We went out on a litter pick in the school grounds and in the village. Five members of the eco team did a fantastic job of finding litter within the school grounds. We even tidied up the car park and put the leaves out in the garden waste bag which the binmen collected for recycling! We noticed that nearly all the rubbish we found was plastic wrappers and packets.
Three eco team members went along School Road to the community center picking up lots of litter. Again it was mostly plastic, as well as take away cups, food packaging, cans and glass. Most of us loved using the grabbers and we were all fantastic Litter heroes!!
Last year's eco team did an assembly about Litter. See their Powerpoint below the slideshow.
We are proud to be Litter Heroes and make our school and community environments better places for us and wildlife. Please see the photos of our litter pick below.
| eco_team_litter_assembly_2018_1.pptx |
Stag Beetle Log Pile
The Eco Team built a stag beetle log pile in the Wildlife Garden. The logs came from Hobday Woods and Mr Hobday came in to tell us how to make it (and help with the digging!). We had to dig a hole, arrange the logs in an upright group and then partially bury the bases of the logs. Stag Beetles are Britain’s largest beetles but are endangered. They spend most of their life as a larva underground feeding on dead, rotting wood. It takes a larva up to 6 years to reach its full size, next it turns into a pupa and, after a few months, it changes into an adult stag beetle. The adults only live for a few weeks. We can all help stag beetles by leaving any rotting wood or tree stumps in our gardens or by making a log pile and letting it rot. We hope that the log pile in our Wildlife Garden will provide the perfect habitat for stag beetles and lots of other creatures!
Our Stag Beetle Log Pile
We joined the Eco Schools programme in 2011. This is a global programme that encourages pupils and staff to come up with fun, eco-friendly projects to help make our school a more pleasant place to be and reduce our impact on the environment. We have an Eco Team of pupils and staff members who meet regularly to discuss and agree on environmental projects.
We have achieved our Bronze and Silver Awards.
We have achieved our Bronze and Silver Awards.
