Term+2+Activities+2011-2012

Please fill in the table below with details about what you did this term. You will need to make sure you are logged in and press the 'EDIT' button on the top right of the page in order to fill in the table. Please make sure that you don't delete anyone else's entries - you should write about your project in the next available row. Primary || We asked every class to make their own eco display board for their room. We took part in the Veolia Water Challenge to help us try and save water. We all took a card home to write down how we try and help save water at home. The Eco Committee made posters to put up at school about saving water. We have made an Eco Broom!Each class has a check list of things to do in their classroom to be Eco Friendly. We do spot checks and every fortnight we award the Broom to the class that is doing the best! || It has made everyone more aware of what we are doing to be an Eco School It has made us think how much water we use - we had to work out how much we use in a day Everyone is now really involved as they want to win the boom for their class.. || Water Challenge was quite hard for the younger children || Keep the Eco Broom going! Planting in our raised beds and involvement in 'Seeds of Hope' planting activity as part of our Global Perspective. || The composting assembly was recieved well. We only rted composting this week and so far the rota is workign well. Everyone enjoyed the tree competition but some people felt it was tricky. We look forward to reducing our paper wastage after our assembly nexerm. || Keep a close eye on our composting monitors. Everything is goign well so far. || Next term we planPromotoe walk to school week. write letters t local businesses to gett hem recycling printer cartridges and help us raise more school funds, take part int he potatoe challenge, look at weak areas in our silver award application to imporve ochances of getting it, reduce paper wastage, introduce our new Eco award. ||
 * **School Name** || **What activity did you do this term?** || **What worked well about your activity?** || **What would you do differently next time?** || **What activity are you planning on doing next term?** ||
 * //Example School// || //We did an assembly about waste reduction// || //We managed to speak to every child in the school about waste and we followed this up with a poster campaign around the school.// || //We would have a waste reduction week and try and get everyone in the school to create less waste.// || //An acivity for Fairtrade Fortnight in// February. ||
 * Redbourn Infant and Nursery || We had a workshop with OMSCO about organic farming || All the children really enjoyed learning about this subject and the activities were great fun. So much was learnt by all the pupils and staff! || Plan more time to do the activities || Visiting a windfarm ||
 * St Dominics Primary. || In eco club we made bird feeders from old **recycled** plastic bottles.We also made christmas tags out of old christmas cards and we will sell them at our own winter sale. || Many of our younger members joined in and enjoyed filling the feeders with the seeds.This was very nice because not many of the younger members get involved with the eco activitys. || Next time we will try to plan more time to carry out the activity. || We are going to carry out a suvey to aim for a silver eco award.Also we are going to try and focus on our topic **animal conservation,** by making our school grounds more of an attractive habitat for animals and birds. ||
 * Redbourn Infant and Nursery || We had our Green Flag Assessment ||  ||   || We have been successful and now have our green flag ||
 * Sir John Lawes School || We held a Fairtrade awareness month. We did lots of different activities to promote Fairtrade, such as holding fairtrade food sales and a quiz in form time. || We raised £70 in our first Fairtrade food sale, we also have proved that paying a slightly higher price is better because that little bit more helps to improve someones life in a 3rd world country. || We could be a bit more organized. || Something to do with water conservation. ||
 * St Bernadette RC Primary || This term we worked hard clearing our vegetable plot. We have planted 2 young fruit trees (which arrived in the snowy weather!), 2 varieties of potatoes and have planted broad beans which we are keeping inside until they are ready to go out in the plot. We cleared up litter from around our plot and hope to plant more vegetables next term when the weather is warmer. || It was great because everyone in our class was involved. We are taking turns to look after the plants. || We would involve more people from across the school. || We will continue the vegetable plot and display our energy saving signs around the school which was one of our targets. ||
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 * Manland Primary School || As ever we have been very busy! Our committee has desinged an Eco trophy that is going to be given out weekly to the most Eco friendliest class. We have set up composting in our school and we introduced it by having an assembly. Some children have also writen an aseembly for saving paper in ur school. We have been reminding our classes about our Eco code because we felt the pupils were not following it.Some classes took part in Setpoints 'Create a tree' competition using only recycled paper and scissors! || We have not yet received the eco trophy from the creater but when we do we think it will be sucsess.
 * St.Alban and St.Stephen junior school || We did a litter pick up on Wednesday 28th March. The Eco-School team helped us and we got involved in The Big Tidy Up. We went around the school grounds collecting rubbish. We wore green bibs and held green binbags, so everyone could see us. || It made us all think about how much waste can be on our school property. Everyone in the playground saw us, so it raised awarness of the litter. || We will get more people aware of all the waste that is out of sight, and show more of the school what we are doing. || An Eco Day hopefully.... ||
 * The Lea Primary School And Nursery || We created an eco-trophy for our school, our school also entered the WasteAware Recycling Olympics "Design a bench" competition || We became more aware about recycling paper and whether the lights were on or off. || Remind everyone about the entries for the competiton earlier. || A Green Week, packed with **loads** of fun, eco activities. ||
 * Beech Hyde Primary School || We have continued to work hard to clear and clean the pond. || We worked hard as a team to clear the years worth of weeds from the pond which was very hard work. || The pond took a lot longer to clear than we has initially hoped. || Redevelop the courtyard with new pots and plants and furnitire. ||
 * The Grove Infant and Nursery School || We have expanded our recycling and have given greater focus to our use of electricity, water, and paper. || We have contracted KP Waste to collect our tetra paks, plastic and cardboard waste. Cardboard is the biggest recycling problem that we have encourtered, so the new larger wheelie bin is a godsend for our Caretaker. ||  || We're going to look at water consumption, trying to reduce the toilet flushes, using Water Hippos, and we are also going to buuild a culture of turning off the lights, overhead projectors, and computers at lunchtime. ||
 * Wheatfields Infants' & Nursery || We held a Waste Aware Week to reduce all waste brought into school. We have also put bird feeders into out courtyard and we now have a wormery. || The wormery is fantastic and we have lots of blue tits and finches visiting our pond || We would have brought the wormery in the summer, we thought the worms would die in the cold weather || We are going to improve the pond. ||