Our ECO Team is led by Mrs A Parkinson. We meet once every half term with two or three representatives from each class in school which were voted for by their peers in September. The children in KS2 who were interested in joining wrote and shared a speech with their class to explain why they thought they would be the best candidate.
We had our last Green Flag Award Assessment in April 2017 and were very pleased to say that we passed. A group of children showed the Assessor around school and included all the areas which show that we are an ECO School.
We are due to be assessed again in May 2019 and are working on a variety of activities and projects to show what we can do as a school to make a difference to the world.
Why not have a look at the notice board in the hall or come along on a Tuesday lunchtime at 12.00noon to join the the Eco activities - everyone welcome.
Our latest Green Flag Award - Assessor's comments 2017
'The Eco-Committee were delightful and showed me carefully round, ensuring I did not miss anything, especially the living wall.'
'I thought the skills the children had obtained from their work were of a high standard, and can only think this will have a greater impact on their future and wherever they go.'
'Well done to everyone and keep up the great work.'
As a school, we support World Vision by sponsoring a child called Chimwemwe who lives in Malawi.
You can see below how our support helps Chimwemwe and his community to build a better life.
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Young mothers have been taught about nutrition | A variety of foods can now be grown | Children eat a healthy soya porridge breakfast |
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| Vaccinations and health care are provided locally | Village schools have been build | Clean water has been provided at schools |
We have written a birthday card for Chimwenwe and sent it to him along with a cash gift to help his area. Chimwemwe is going to be 10 years old soon. World Vision will translate our message for him and they are going to send some animal masks for him to play with.
With the help of World Vision, Chimwemwe's community is now self sustaining. As a school, we now support a young boy called Jusuf from Sierra Leone.
FairActive Certificate - achieved 19th March 2019
We have worked hard to achieve this award.
As part of this we have tried to get everyone involved by holding Reading and Hot Chocolate afternoons as well as holding a Fairtrade Stall at our Christmas Trail afternoon. We have held an assembly about the 'Fairtrade banana' which was fun to perform.
Our next goal is to achieve the FairAchiever award.
Fairtrade Foundation Newsletters
Please click on the link below to see how Fairtrade and the National Trust have helped the tea farmers in Burnside Tea Estate in Tamil Nadu, India. (use the back button to return to the website)
We sold Advent Calendars - Thank you to all who supported this.
We also held a Fairtrade Stall (Y6 children helped to run this stall) on 7th December 2018 at our Christmas Trail afternoon.
Parents and children enjoyed a drink and home-made mince pies during the afternoon.
Eco Code
The tree represents our school
The Eco Code is written at the side
The leaves are ideas of how to keep the code and protect our environment
Each class were asked to come up with ideas of how to keep to the Eco Code in their everyday lives and we used these ideas for the leaves
Class links
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Nursery have been learning about growth and new life. They have been looking after all the plants and animals in school. |
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Reception have been learning about healthy eating in PSHE. |
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Year 1 have been walking around the school grounds and looking for signs of new seasons. |
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Year 2 have done lots of work on plastic pollution in the ocean and have written letters to Blackpool Sea Life Centre to share their concerns. |
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Year 4 have been learning about rivers, rainforests and deforestation. |
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Year 5 have bean learning about healthy lifestyles - eating healthy and exercise. |
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Year 6 have started a young leaders award. As part of this, they have been researching charities that they could help. They have also applied their knowledge of healthy lifestyles to create their own healthy snacks. |
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Pictures from the Classrooms, events and grounds
Potato Diary
23rd February 2018
Today we chitted our potatoes. We had two types of potato; Rocket potatoes and Athlete potatoes. We put them in the chitting tray. We made sure the shoots were facing up. We are going to leave them for two weeks. Around the 6th of March we will plant the potatoes. We are going to donate some potatoes to Nursery and Reception to grow.
6th March 2018
It is too cold outside to plant our potatoes. The frost would kill them so we are waiting until the weather is a little warmer. We may plant them indoors until the weather is better and then transfer them to the allotments.
9th April 2018
It is now warm enough to plant our potatoes outside. We will need to feed and water them regularly to make sure that they grow. We will need to remove the weeds.
18th May 2018
We had to weed our potatoes today. There were so many that it took a lot of people.
Activities
Planting Trees
We planted small trees which will take a long time to grow. We now need to look after them so that they do not get damaged as they are growing. We have sleeves which we can put on that will stop the shoots blowing over in strong winds.
Litter Picking
After the windy weather we did a litter pick as a lot of rubbish had blown into our grounds. Small animals can be harmed by litter. We weighed how much we had collected - 2.4kg. We will add this information to our chart on our Noticeboard.
Composting
Putting fruit waste into our compost bin
We planted small trees which will take a long time to grow. We now need to look after them so that they do not get damaged as they are growing. We have sleeves which we can put on them that will stop the shoots blowing over in strong winds and protect them from animals.
Year 5 have been planting trees and herbs - follow this link to see the photos
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We now have 111 solar panels on our school roof.
Reception
We talked about solar power and looked at a book about solar pannels. We then talked about how we need to make sure we re use things. We then printed using pots and bottles.
Year 4
In year 4 we looked at the damage to the planet and discussed ways to help support the environment. We chose to investigate how the solar panels work and presented our knowledge and understanding in a video.
How do solar panels work?
How do solar panels work?
How do solar panels work?
How do solar panels work?