Our third Eco Day, Wednesday 31st March 2010We will be having our third Eco Day on 31st March which again will focus on improving the School Grounds. The day will begin with an Assembly, stressing the importance of the 3 Rs - reduce, reuse and recycle. The day will conclude with a presentation by 3 children from the Eco Action team who recently attended a most enjoyable and interesting 'Eco Summit' with me. This will then be put on the website for all to see.
Other activities to be undertaken include:-
• mending the hut to enable this to be used as an outside classroom
• tidying the Conservation Area and seeing whether the bulbs that we planted in October have started to grow.
• finalising ideas for improving the Conservation Area to enable costings and grant applications to be undertaken
• The construction of another raised bed by the entrance.
• Making a 3D clay Eco Code based on ideas already submitted by the children.
• Other classroom activities organised by the Class teachers Please could you save and rinse out any Robinson Fruit Shoot bottles you have at home and hand these into the Office for an eco art activity.
Please send the children to school in old clothes (preferably green!) with a pair of wellies and a waterproof coat,
If you are available to help I'm sure the teachers would be most grateful for an extra pair of hands!
I have ordered a fine sunny day so all activities can be enjoyed to their maximum!
Thank-you for your support.
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Our Eco ArtOn Eco Day we produced some super Eco Art. Click on our big board for a closer look and on thr link below for our Eco presentation..
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Our second Eco Day October 2009 kindly sponsored by fundraise4schoolsWe had a super day exploring and creating Eco Art and dodging, or in some cases not, the immense downpours to plant our bulbs and class trees. We feel at one with nature!
Fundraise4schools kindly sposored our day.
Click on our Eco Day board to see our Eco slideshow. Click on the links below to view our Eco Oct 2009 Assembly and our Eco Anthem sung by the choir. Click on the presentation for further info on eco-schools.
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Eco Council Matters 2/10/09Please ask Eco - Council reps to share this with the class
Present;-
Ellie and Rhys - Holly Class
Ellie and Jessame - Oak Class
Uther, Joe and Emily - Chestnut Class
Lucy and Andrew - Ash Class
Sophie and Oliver - Willow Class.
Matters discussed:-
1. Eco- day
We all felt that this had been enjoyable and a good start to the Eco school initiative. The children particularly enjoyed being outside in the Conservation area and building the homes for bugs. We now have short listed the eco - codes from each class. Mrs Locke will talk with Mrs Neate Clegg to decide how to make the code.
2. Eco- School bronze award.
We talked about what was required for this award. Before the Eco day we met to carry out an Environmental review. From this we felt three areas were outstanding - energy, transport and improving our school grounds. 3 areas would be too much to tackle all at once so we are going to focus on reducing energy and improving our school grounds ( bio - diversity) An action plan will be drawn up to target these areas. We then need to prove that we are tackling these areas to gain the bronze award.
3. Improving the school grounds.
We all had lots of good ideas. We intend to eventually have vegetable patches for each class, plant trees and make to make a tree nursery, have a seated area in the conservation area, a raised bed by the entrance to improve its appearance and a pond in another part of the grounds. Mrs Locke mentioned the need to get adults involved to help with the clearing and manual work. Sophie suggested having an eco- suggestion box similar to the School Council's.
4. Class monitors.
Each class will have a responsibility aimed at the 2 areas mentioned above.
Acorn - tba
Holly - litter
Oak - bird feeders in conservation area
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Eco Day June 2009We had a fantastic day learning how to be an Eco School. ECO DAY Tues 23rd June 2009
We had a super Eco Day learning to be Eco friendly. We all came to school wearing green and we had an Eco assembly given by Inogen Davenport from the Dorset Wildlife Trust about protecting the habitats of frogs which linked to developing habitats in our own conservation area. We all had a chance to help clear the Conservation Area during the day and we drew up some ideas as to how wanted it to look. We also started our brains working to come up with an Eco Code. During the day we participated in Art activities using recycled materials and other eco activities. We also switched off our electricity for an hour to help save our planet which we hope to become a regular activity. What a great day we had.
Click on Charis and the boys to see our slideshow.
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