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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