Term+1+Activities+2012-2013

Please fill in the table below with details about what you did this term. Recycled materials art day Upcycling competition Assemlby || The stickers we gave out encouraged people to be more aware about saving energy.On our art day each class made a scarecrow out of recycled fabrics.Lots of the scarecrows have been displayed around the school.Some six formers from beaumont school ran an assembly on upcycling, and they have set a competition for all the pupils in our school, and there will be a prize for 1st 2nd and 3rd.THe competition was that they had to make an office object out of recycled things, and decorate it. We did an assembly to kick off switch off fortnight and we gave ideas. At the end of the fortnight we had a candle lit assembly when everything electrical in the school was off for an hour. || Choose the switch off monitors differently as some children didn't do it properly. || Focus on encouraging nature (biodiversity). Whole school making bird food yoghurt pots and a nature-spotting day. Non-uniform/wear green day to raise money for bird feeders/bird food/nature-friendly plant seeds. ||
 * **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 presented an assembly || It reminded everyone what we do as a school to be sustainable. || Nothing it worked very well || Building our recycled plastic bottle greenhouse ||
 * Maple School || Switch off fortnight
 * Margaret Wix Primary School || We introduced an assembly and went round the whole school with a check list to see how green are school is already. || We have created a notice board in the school and a few children have had some ideas which they have posted in our schools suggestion box. We have managed to plant some wildflower seeds. || We should be quicker to think of ideas for are next term. || Our project for next term is Recycling. ||
 * ====== St Nicholas Primary School ====== || === We did a Walk to School Assembly and we awarded a golden boot to the class who walked the most. ===

We also made a Bug Hotel in the school garden. Thirdly, we did Switch Off Fortnight, we did an assembly and monitored energy use.
|| = On the walk to school week, when we told the whole school about the winner's prize, it encouraged the students to walk to school more which worked well. what went well about the bug hotel is we made a date to do it, however didnt do it that day but the next day, and we all listened to each other and we achieved a lot more!!!!!!!! Switch off fortnight also went well because we saved LOADS of energy, (not sure the exact amount we saved!) :) :) :) = || = Being a bit more organised within the whole Eco Council. = || = We havn't decided yet! = || We also encouraged the the teachers in our school to teach their classes about Fair Trade and World food on that day., || Try to promote Eco-club and sustainable schools across the whole school, in assemblies etc.. We have made Christmas crackers, decorations and much more!!! || We are going to save up to buy a talking recycling bin to encourage people to re-cycle. We have started a club called 'Eco-club'. We have been making things and upcycling from various materials like egg boxes. || This is where you will come to log your activities from the Autumn Term.
 * = SS Alban and Stephen RM Junior School = || = We did an assembly and talked to everybody about what we are trying to acheive in the future.In Switch off fortnight we made a pledge on a paper foot. We have also made a film for the St albans filmfestival. = || = In the film we showed how green our school is by showing an eco crime scene. I think it was good because it was showing everybody how green we are and how green the world needs to be. = ||  ||   ||
 * ** Garden Fields School ** || ** We improved the paper recycling (and reduced the waste) in our school by making recycling boxes for each classroom (out of old boxes) and promoting the message - Reduce, Re use, Recycle throughout the school. ** || ** We didn't recycle much in our school and not many children knew what to do. Lots of paper was still getting thrown away even when we got a big paper recycling bin. We now empty the classroom boxes every week and put the paper in the main recycling bin. ** || ** We will organise other children to help us empty the boxes. ** || ** We would like to do something with our natutre area. ** ||
 * Lea Primary School || We produced an assembly and invited KS2 to our up-cycling club. || What worked well about our assembly was that lots of the school signed up to our club. What worked well about the club was that pupils at the Lea now know that they can up-cycle as well as recycle and up-cycling is better for the environment. Also everyone really enjoyed it. || Make EVERYTHING out of used material. ||  ||
 * Sir John Lawes || We made an insect home by drilling into logs and piling them up, vistied The Grove Infants to see their wildlife area and planted some trees that came from the Woodland Trust || We collected some good ideas from our visit for next term's projects. The things we did this term were simple yet effective in helping towards our biodiversity aim. || All sustainable school ambassadors meeting up more regulary. || Continue with biodiversity. ||
 * || 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. || It is good to reuse and recycle materials from all kinds of different stuff.
 * St Dominic Catholic Primary School || We had a Green Week in October and had two assemblies. We chose to focus on minibeasts and the two Year 6 Ambassadors presented the assembly dressed as bees. Every class did something about minibeasts for the assembly. We also raised over £70 in a One World Game which was held every lunchtime for a week. It was very popular! The Reception classes helped to make minibeast habitats in their playgrounds. || This term we are focusing on our woods after the Year 6's and school parents helped to tidy them up. We have a super cleared area to go in to - even when it's raining. So stay posted as they are our next project! ||  ||   ||
 * Wheatfields juniors || we planned a assembly introducing our sustainability commitee and the big bird watch. || Each class has a representative and we all worked well as a team. || next time we should allow ourselves more time. || At the end of the spring term we will tell you how the big bird watch went. ||
 * Samuel Ryder Academy || We have collaborated with our 6th Form. We performed an assembly with them. || To inform students about being sustainable and how they can help with recycling in their own homes. || More rehearsal time so we didn't have to use a script. || Produce save evergy posters to put up in class rooms. ||