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Eco Community

Dedication to our environment

  • National Trust National Trust are offering a free entry to one of their sites this Autumn. Please refer to their website below for terms and conditions.

Green flag school:

Our Green Flag has arrived. Our children and staff have worked incredibly hard to achieve this award for our school. 

Eco explorers

Monet garden

Look carefully what can you see?

Eco reading:

One of our Eco committee members brought in a lovely Eco book to share with us at school. 

Eco award:

Robin class had great fun planting the variety of beans, wild flowers, beetroot and the plants the children nurtured over lockdown in the Eco garden and are very excited to see the plants in bloom and try the beans hopefully. 

Eco garden waking up for Spring:

A great Eco poster design by one of our Golden Eagle children over the Easter half term! 
Great new tools for us to use in the Eco garden and around school to water the plants we have in school and on the top playground. 
We have added lots of different types of beans to our seed collection along with wild flower mix. 
We have received the innocent smoothie school packages of seeds and so each class has their own type of seeds to grow this year. Robins have beetroot and salad leaves to grow. 
  • BTO A lovely website that offers used equipment to schools and other users.

Eco challenges set by our Eco committee:

  • Insects A little video to explain how we can help insects and stop certain species from going extinct.
Robin class helping to fill the compost bin and weed the planters. 
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:

Completed Environmental review and notes:

Growing:

Growing potatoes from left overs

Sunflower progress

Progress of the vegetables planted

Environmental review of our school:

The importance of water:

Milk bottle watering cans

Water certificate

Using water

learning about water

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 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:

Up-cycled milk bottle watering can

Saving plastic by refilling

Up-cycled milk bottle hanging basket

Up-cycled milk bottle bird feeder

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:

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:

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:

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:

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
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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
We really enjoyed making bird feeders. 

Junk modelling mini beasts:

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 helping tidy up the Eco Garden. 
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. 

Special treat for Eco Club:

Hot chocolate as a treat for all of their hard work!

Reception enjoying the outdoors:

Finding twigs to compare size, twigs that look like numbers and children getting close to nature. 

Eco club:

The children in Eco club have been working really hard gardening to ensure the veg boxes are clear of grass and weeds. 

Eco Garden at the start of the year:

Eco Garden 2018 

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