Eco Community | St Andrew's Church of England Primary School

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:

First session in the Eco garden of 2019/2020: 3

First session in the Eco garden of 2019/2020: 4

First session in the Eco garden of 2019/2020: 5

First session in the Eco garden of 2019/2020: 6

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:

Identifying animals through their droppings: 3

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:

Our fantastic Eco Garden in the mist: 10

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.