Term+1+Activities+2011-2012

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|| We are going to introduce an eco check to measure how much paper is being recycled and the amount of electricity being used then are going to see if the electricity bill has dropped. || School || We have Eco Champions who go round the school and give red or green balloons. Red for leaving something on or green for doing everything well. we also have recycling for paper and paper towels. || Its good because it encourages children to be Eco friendly at school and at home. || We will reward the children who do it correctly and give the other classes a forfeit! Use house points. || We will be holding litter activities and a fair trade week. We all will enjoy doing these activities too. ITS FUN!!! || school || We have tried to make our Eco Committe more effective in the whole school. The members have been given a book where they note down things from the meetings and report back to their class. Also in the books they write down anything that is happening in their class & suggestions for Eco School || Better feedback from the Monitors and enbled us to involve the whole school more ad let them know what is going on. ||  || We need to carry on working hard at this! || The Eco monitors made posters? || We could have gone round and spoken to every class about the importance of saving energy. || We will go and talk to the classes - grown ups as well! || We made pledges to save energy and water on lightbulbs then put them on display in the dining hall. We did a second spot check and found the results were better. We still keep up posters reminding everyone to save electricity. || Our activity worked well because everyone was involved and then when we are eating dinner, everyone points out their own lightbulb, and people can see each other's and talk about saving energy, which means we are all a greener school. || Have two assemblys, one to explain at the start of the fortnight. and then one at the end of the fortnight. We would tell people how much energy we had saved, and explained to parents what we had done over the two weeks. || We are hoping to hold a green week, we we will do recycled art, like wear green day, and assemblys. || Christmas tag selling was very good as we sold a lots and raised money for eco school projects. || Make the tags more pretty with glitter. Everything else went well. || Look at reducing paper waste and set up composting school. || We have started a club called 'Eco-club'. We have been making things and upcycling from various materials like egg boxes. We have made Christmas crackers, decorations and much more!!! || It is good to reuse and recycle materials from all kinds of different stuff. || Try to promote Eco-club and sustainable schools across the whole school, in assemblies etc.. || We are going to save up to buy a talking recycling bin to encourage people to re-cycle. ||
 * **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?** ||
 * //The Grove Junior School// || //We have begun a bottle top art mural.// || //We have collected loads of bottles tops and are we are working on designs. We also are holding a competition for the winning design.// || //We would hold a fundraiser first as this is quite an expensive project due to the materilas needed for outside.// || //A 'green Catwalk' using recycable materials for our outfits. We have made prototypes for our teddies.// ||
 * Redbourn Infant and Nursery School || We have begun an ink cartridge recyling scheme || All the children have an opportunity to collect them and we have approached our local business people who will also save them for our recyling. || Nothing as it was a simple scheme to set up and run. It also makes a bit of money for the school || Wewant a nature trail in our school grounds and are hoping to acheive our green flag as we are in the process of applying. ||
 * The Lea Primary and Nursery School || We arranged a tour and checklist about what could improve in our school to make it more efficient and eco friendly.We have also organise an assembly to show who we are and what we do. || Once completing our checklist, we found that the school had motion sensor lights but realised that all the air that is heated in the dinning-room has to travel up to the roof and back being less efficient. The assembly helped show awareness and that we are always open for ideas. || none so far...
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 * Maple School || We have been trying to save electricity and encourage everyone else to do it too! We did Switch Off Fortnight' and did spot checks around the school.We have been checking the smart metering to see if we are saving any! || Every class was asked to think about saving energy.
 * St.Alban and St.Stephen Junior School || We held an assembly about switch off fortnight and did spot checks in every room at lunchtime.
 * Manland primary school || This term has been very busy! We have taken part in switch of fortnight, continued recycling printer cartridges, recycled christmas cards and made them into tags and sold them at them at the fete we alson selected new committee members. || Switch off fortnight was very useful. The whole school comleted an activity and it made the pupils think about why they should save energy.
 * Bernard's Heath Junior school || This term we've been very Busy, organising all of our activities! We've done walk to School week, but we did it differently this year! Every time someone walked to or from school that would count as 10 miles and they would have to mark it down under their name on the chart. We were aiming to walk to Kenya.At the end of the week we counted up the miles the whole school had managed to walk to Austrailia! The next activity we planned was design a mascot competition which was part of our project, Stamp out Waste. Everyone had to design a green mascot and there was a winner for each year group who won a prize. || The whole school worked as a team for walk to schoolweek and managed to achieve even more than expected! And both our sketches that we did in assemblies taught everone about the importance of recycling and being eco friendly. || We could ask the children for feedback to see what they would like us to do for our next project. || We're planning to continue with our stamp out waste project. ||
 * Wood End Primary School || This term we've been really busy! First we got an eco suggestion box, so that people could write eco-related suggestions to improve our school. Then we had a Green Week, which we organised assemblies and activities for the whole school. Later on in the week, we formed an eco-council, which includes two children from each year group. On the last few days, all the pupils in the school wrote pledges on green feet on how to be more eco-friendly. Next,we went round all the classrooms and gave them red and green feet, depending on whether they were eco-friendly or not. (Green being eco-friendly and red not) A month ago one of the parents built a compost made out of recycled wood and nails, which is now in our sensory garden. We have now been awarded a bronze award. || Everything worked well and everyone was notified, especially because we had made big banners saying 'Green Week' on them. || Next time we would try and make everyone even more aware by letting them wear a green top and bringing in a pound. || We are planning on having a 'Big Brew Try and Buy', where we will sell fairtrade products as well as having special class assemblies and activities. ||
 * St.Dominics RC Primary || This term we hosted a whole school Green day, and from this we got many ideas for helping to make our school more sustainable.From the money raised we brought 2 compost bins for both of our playground areas. These are now being used regularly by every class at breaktimes and by the schools cooks at lunchtimes.With leftover money we brought 4 school planting boxes for spring flowers that all the eco team were involved in planting. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * St Bernadette RC Primary || This term we made recycling boxes for every classroom. We spoke to each class about recycling paper and encouraged them to never throw paper away. We told the teachers that they would need to empty the recycling boxes as the recycling bins are in the front car-park. The bins have distinctive green lettering displaying each class name. || We think this activity went well as we were able to speak to every child and teacher in the school about recycling paper. ||  || We hope to clear and begin our vegetable plot. We had a volunteer come to do the main digging and now it is ready for us to begin planting. ||
 * Beech Hyde Primary School || We have elected a new group of eco warriors and decided that our project for this year is to tidy up and redevelop one of our small courtyards which houses a small pond. || We have worked well together to start to clear the courtyard. || It was harder to remove some of the old plants than we thought it was going to be. || We hope to clear and clean up the pond. ||
 * Wheatfields Infants' and Nursery || We have introduced recycling bins throughout the school to compost our fruit and vegetable waste. || It is a good way to reuse the leftovers and stop things going to landill || We need to add some other things to the bins to make better compost || we want to develop our pond courtyard ||
 * Mount Pleasant Lane School and Nursery || We ran a Fair Trade stall on 'World Food Day' - selling fair trade food and crafts including chocolate, biscuits and friendship bracelets. We raised money for CAFOD and for our sustainable schools comittee to buy something eco-friendly for the school. We also encouraged the the teachers in our school to teach their classes about Fair Trade and World food on that day.
 * ==St.Dominic Catholic Primary School == || We Dressed up as bees in green week and produced 2 assemblies about minibeasts - especially bees. This was inspired by the bees workshop that we attended during our ambassadors' training session was held at Sir John Lawes School. We also ran a stall during green week; the One World Game. It seemed very popular and we soon ran out of stock. At the end we raised £75.47 for our gardening club. || Everyone enjoyed seeing us as bees and it attracted a lot of attention towards minibeasts.The stall showed everyone that not every country is as fortunate as ours. || We would have stayed for bees for longer and we would have bought more prizes for the stall. || This term we are focusing on the woods. ||