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Eco-Schools
News – Autumn 2010
The newly-named Green Team plans to make this
academic year the most active yet. After meeting all the criteria we
were awarded our Eco-Schools Bronze Award back in May and hope to
receive our Silver Award by March 2011.
Reaching some of our main targets from our Action
Plan, we have:
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started to monitor electricity consumption; hourly consumption is on
display in the student social area.
A Year 8 maths project will commence in November with students
analysing weekly, monthly and annual consumption, and monitoring this
over a four-month period. Their results and calculations will be used in
a campaign to reduce our electricity consumption as much as we can,
saving money and being more environmentally responsible.
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ensured that the majority of staff and students in the school are now
recycling paper and we have ordered larger, more durable bins for a more
professional collection scheme, due to be launched very soon.
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begun to plan our kitchen garden project, which is due to start in
February 2011.
We will be launching a competition to search for a winning
design.
If you’d like a copy of the full
action plan or our environmental review, please contact
Miss Jolly (Eco-Schools Co-ordinator).
OTHER NEWS:
Our sixth-form geographers have been working
closely with a number of primary schools in the area, helping them with
a variety of environmentally-friendly projects. More details to follow.
Students from the Green Team were very busy on Open
Day and planted 250 crocus bulbs as well as giving the courtyard garden
a general tidy-up. In November we will also be planting some daffodils
and are looking forward to how nice the school will look in spring!
Vouchers have been arriving thick and fast for the
Morrison’s Grow Your Own Scheme. We have reached our target and will be
ordering a variety of garden equipment. Thanks to everyone who collected
vouchers for us!
Watch this
space for news of a Rag Bag scheme, art & design projects and more
cross-curricular projects linked to sustainable schools!
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