St Andrew's Church of England Primary School An intelligent heart acquires knowledge and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. Proverbs 18:15

Eco Community

RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch Weekend; 29-31st January 2021

Get involved in this year's Big Garden Birdwatch

Join thousands of people taking part to see the drama unfold on your doorstep.

We might not be able to get together with loved ones at the moment, but you can make plans with friends and family to take part in the world’s largest wildlife survey, all from the comfort of your own homes.

If you enjoy taking photos, try taking 5 pictures of the birds you see in your garden and send them to Puffins@st-andrews-pri.derbyshire.sch.uk and we will put them on our school webpage: Artsmark/Five Fab Photos.

Which kind of garden bird are you? Take part in the the RSPB quiz to find out.

How to attract birds to your garden.

Our Eco committee:

Our children have worked extremely hard to create two Eco display boards. One who is in our committee and what they are leading and the other one to celebrate children's work from our half term ECO challenge.

Litter picking:

During Robins class playtime they noticed a lot of tinsel on the playground and so made it their mission to pick it all up so it didn't hurt any animals in the Eco garden and placed the tinsel in the bin.

Well done Robins living out our school values working as a team and respecting one another (and living things)!

PUFFIN HALF TERM RECYCLING HOMEWORK

october-holiday-homework.pdf

Year 5 Half term Eco challenge

Year 6 half term Eco challenge

Kingfisher half term ECO challenge!

See Kingfisher class page for their amazing ECO work!

Robins half term Eco challenge:

Helping to fill the compost bin:

Robin class helping to fill the compost bin and weed the planters.

Den structure:

Eco bronze award:

bronze Eco award.pdf

We want to say a huge thank you to all of our children and families who have worked so hard over lockdown to achieve our Bronze award for Eco Schools!

Eco Action plan:

Stanley St. Andrew's Action Plan.pdf

Completed Environmental review and notes:

Growing:

Environmental review of our school:

Template -Environmental-Review.pdf

Free 30 day wild challnege Another great challenge to support us gain the Eco award.

The importance of water:

Seven Trent Water: Come and meet Molly as she takes you through learning about the importance of water.

Seeds and growing:

Niger, Millet and sunflower seeds as well as, green beans, onions, tomatoes, potatoes and more sunflower seeds.

Feeding the birds:

Re-using a toilet roll tube as a bird feeder!

Our school Eco pledge:

Eco Pledge -Code.pdf

Eco pledges:

Our Eco committee have all completed an Eco pledge to support our school and community area.

Earth Day: There are lots of resources and activitiy ideas to complete on Earth day! Dont forget to send us what you have done.

Seeds: As a school we normally grow these seeds. However, due to lockdown the company is offering free seeds sets for individuals at home. Have a look and sign up but make sure you keep us up-to-date with the growing process of your seeds.

Amazing act of kindness and recycling:

A pupil decided to sort through her toys and instead of throwing them away decided to clean them and pop them outside for any children who would like one can take one.

Growing our own veg:

Peas and carrots planted in school and taken Planting potatoes at home.

home to grow and produce veg.

A large bug hotel:

An amazing bug hotel made at home.

Up-cycled items:

A plastic bottle made into a piggy bank.

A milk bottle made into an Elmer.

Eco Challenges: There are lots of activities on this link to up-cycle things in your home as well as, gardening ideas as the weather is slowly imporving

Examples of the challenges:

Batteries:

We are still collecting household batteries!

SEEDS:

The Eco club have enjoyed planting carrot, cress and pea seeds. Lets watch them grow!

Eco song:

Stanley version of hole at the bottom of the sea.pdf

Our Eco song is sung to the music to There's a hole in the bottom of the sea.

Eco display board:

Our first Eco Meeting:

Eco-Committee-Meeting-Minutes 05.03.2020.pdf

We have held our very first Eco meeting today which was fantastic the children had a fantastic discussion and some brilliant ideas about how we are going to move forward as a school and towards the Eco award.

Amazing Workshops:

Feb half term.pdf

Great opportunities for February half-term at Woodside Farm.

Eco Committee:

Amazing contributions from pupils! Our first Eco committee meeting will be Wednesday 5th February 2020 at 12:30pm. Let's get our action plan sorted!

Our journey to becoming an Eco school:

Eco award for schools

Stanley St Andrews are forming an Eco Committee! We are going to apply for the Eco award for our Eco garden and other spaces around the school. Part of this process is the forming of and Eco committee, children will be presenting posters or presentations in one of our collective worships to say why they want be part of the committee and what they feel our first steps should be. The presentation date is the 22.01.20!

Poster / Presentations should include:

- Why you feel you would be a good candidate for the Eco committee

- What are you passionate about and why?

- What first steps you feel Stanley St. Andrew's needs to take and why?

Eco club enjoying the garden:

Eco club enjoying the Eco garden after the parent help days. Wow! The Eco garden looks amazing thank you parents and grandparents it looks fantastic!

Litter pick opportunity:

Yr6 Eco Leads have found a local litter pick and would like as many of you to go and help as possible. If you do go and help out please take a photo and bring into school for us to pop on our website and Eco book.

First session in the Eco garden of 2019/2020:

Great session in the Eco garden and a great start to our bug hotel!

Autumn 1 Overview:

Requirements for the club (every session):

Wellies / appropriate footwear ready for some mud and fun
Waterproof coat / clothing
Trousers
Gardening gloves

	Outside activity	Inside activity	Resources required from pupils:
Week 1
Week 2	Insect hotel Explain about lavender and how we are going to dry it.	Design a seed packet	Plant pots small Hay/straw
Week 3	Making scarecrows.	Making scarecrows.	Hay/ straw Small old clothing
Week 4	Planting winter bedding plants in Eco garden	Eco friendly school – What can we do?	Winter pansies Cyclamen Primulas Ornamental peppers/cabbages Heathers
Week 5	Lavender bags	Lavender bags
Week 6	Planting indoor bulbs to sell at Christmas fair	Planting indoor bulbs to sell at Christmas fair	Small plastic pots Compost Indoor bulbs
Week 7	Wind charm	Wind charm	Natural resources such as, pinecones etc…
Week 8

2019/2020

Bird feeders:

We really enjoyed making bird feeders.

Junk modelling mini beasts:

Identifying animals through their droppings:

Eco club had a fantastic session learning about how to identify an animal through their droppings. Great conversation about what animals eat and where they live.

After School Club have been exploring the ECO Garden this afternoon, they went bird watching and they put there bird feeders out they made yesterday.

Children's work:

We have been designing mobiles for the Eco Garden. The children will use twigs, string and their pictures they have made as well as bottle tops to create a wind charm affect.

Our fantastic Eco Garden in the mist:

Eco Club:

Eco club helping tidy up the Eco Garden.

Tree faces:

The children have made some tree faces and a sign for the gate down to the Eco garden. We completed these one of the evenings it was far to wet to go out. Otherwise we would have put the material onto the bark of the tree to make the faces.

Parent day in the Eco Garden:

A great big thank you to all who came along to help on the very cold and wet day. We made a huge amount of progress. We are luck enough to have a parent to repair the wooden structure. Further work will be going on through this year and into the next.