Eco-Friendly School?

• We already do lot of things in our school that helps us to be eco-friendly.
  Here are just a few:
• Members from our Year 6 school council lead our school eco-committee.
• Posters around school to remind us to recycle paper and to turn off taps and lights.
• Recycle our paper.Lots of junk modelling.
• Using ParentMail for school communications has saved us over 10,000 pieces of paper.
• Reduce the amount of paper we use by saving our work instead of printing.
• Collect stamps to support a kidney charity.
• Fruit peel and cores, etc... are fed to animals or put in Early Years' compost bin.
• Grass cuttings are left on site and collected into mounds to make hedgehog homes.
• Vegetable plot in the Early Years garden.
• Wildlife walk along the bottom of our field in the environment area.
• Sensory Garden at the front of our school.
• Bird table, box and bath.
• Sun protection - sun cream, hats and shade.
• Staff use fair trade tea and coffee.
• Second-hand school uniform sales.
• Collecting shoes and clothes for Planet Aid.
• Operation Christmas Child.
• Collect clothes, books and shoes for the K.I.S.S. Project in Uganda.
• Year 1 and 2 organise a toy sale every year to re-use old toys - all the money raise is given to charity.
• Environmental expert has led talks about how to use the school grounds for teaching and learning.
• R.S.P.B. workshop for Years 1, 2 and 3.
• Wheelbarrow Workshop for Year 3.
• Using our outside environment as our classroom.