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

July 2021 being Eco explorers with reception children

Eco reading:

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

Eco award:

silver award.pdf

Random acts of wildness:

Robins in green for our Eco day:

Golden Eagles celebrating Eco Day - It's good to be green.

Puffin class loved dressing in green on ECO day.

Eco Action plan Summer 1 2021.pdf

Environmental review.pdf

Golden Eagles weeding and planting in the Eco Garden

Robin class planting:

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 huge thank you to one of our families for helping us take care of the Eco garden and ensuring it is a safe and exciting area for the children to enjoy and learn from.

The pond has really settled after another family extended the pond for us to allow for the pond to be used by us.

As you can see from the pictures the Eco garden is all ready to welcome the children and staff back for a lovely Summer term.

Golden Eagle Eco poster challenge:

A great Eco poster design by one of our Golden Eagle children over the Easter half term!

Tools for the Eco garden:

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.

Robin's seed collection:

We have added lots of different types of beans to our seed collection along with wild flower mix.

ECO poster designed by Elise from Puffin class.

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Journey of poo:

St_Andrews_Primary-Certificate.pdf

Robin class planting seeds:

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.

Ancient tree search A lovely website that you ca find the ancient trees in the area and a little about the species of tree and why it was planted.

Our Eco garden ready for classes once again:

One of our families have been into the Eco garden and given it a tidy up ready for classes to start using once again. We can clearly see spring is well on its way.

We thank our school community for supporting us in the up keep of our conservation area and helping us to work towards the silver Eco award.

British Trust Ornithology (BTO)

BTO A lovely website that offers used equipment to schools and other users.

Eco challenges set by our Eco committee:

Eco challenges.pdf

Watch Jess French talk about how to save our world.

Protect the Planet by Jess French Have a look at this book excerpt for ideas to help save the planet.

ZT and family joined CPRE's star count. The results from Star Count help CPRE make a map of where star-spotters are enjoying deep, dark skies. By showing on a map where light pollution is most serious, they can work with local councils and others to decide what to do about it.

Help EW (Puffin Class) to Save the Ocean from Litter.

OB (Eagles Class) and DB (Puffin Class) have been making bird feeders.

Save the ocean picture:

Insects A little video to explain how we can help insects and stop certain species from going extinct.

OT (Puffin Class) and AT (Robin Class) have made fat balls to feed the birds in their garden.

CS (Puffin Class) has been busy making bird feeders, using peanut butter and mixed seeds. The birds love it and he enjoys watching them landing in the apple tree through his binoculars.

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.