The Green Schools website has been setting activities each week based on the different themes: litter and waste, water, travel, biodiversity, global citizenship and the marine environment. They outline an activity for each day with a mixture of tasks aimed at junior pupils, senior pupils and tasks that could be completed by either age group. …
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Climate Change Action
Our Green Schools Committee are focusing their efforts on tackling climate change as they work towards achieving their 7th green flag for global citizenship – energy. Two of our very concerned pupils, Zoe and Mia Butchart, suggested a non-uniform day to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund’s relief efforts in Australia. In total, our …
Energy Audit
During the last week of school in December, four of our Green School committee braved the elements every morning and afternoon to record the meter readings for the electricity and gas. These meter readings tell us how much gas and electricity was used during the school day and after school.Mr Vaughan gave our reps a …
This year Miss Duffy’s 5th class have been learning lots about climate change. We have designed posters and even went on a climate strike. When we returned from our Christmas break, the bushfires in Australia were a hot topic! We researched the devastation that they were causing and were horrified to read that the fires …
Last Friday Mr Ward’s 2nd class made bird feeders in the cookery room with Ms Brady from the Green Schools Committee and Evan from 6th class. They used recycled plastic bottles with an opening cut into them for the birds to reach the seeds. First Ms Brady cut up cooking fat, melted it in the …
