Loxley School achieves Bronze Eco School Award
| | | Working towards the Silver Eco Schools award
What do we need to do?
1. Identify an Action Team. Meet on at least four occasions. The team must include a parent and/or governor representative.
2. The Action Team should complete a Formal Environmental Review and record the results.
3. The Action Team has to produce a detailed Action Plan (including timescales and targets) and share the plan with the rest of the school community.
4. Make progress towards achieving elements of the Action Plan.
5. The school must identify progress towards one large-scale project and indicate involvement with two others (one of which must be waste related). This means that the school must have an understanding of the project topic and recognise its importance to sustainable development within the school environment and wider community.
6. The school has a prominent, designated Eco-Schools web-page. We should also include details all of the different Eco-Schools activities being undertaken in our community newsletter.
7. The school should continue to inform parents and the wider community about the good work being undertaken in the school towards Eco-Schools.
8. The school can indicate that some environmental issues have been covered within curriculum work in most year groups.
9. We need to agree, adopt and display an ‘Eco-Code’.
| Eco Schools Bronze Award Actions
The action team is the whole of the Key Stage 2 class plus Ms Holt.
They have met on several occasions, including 2 long discussion and action sessions on July 7th and January 9th 2007; these included a brainstorming session and an energy walk.
We have completed an environmental review and drafted an action plan. So far we have achieved the following:
• Energy use has been considered. Measures have been put into place that have resulted in oil and electricity bills for autumn/winter 2006/7 being lower than usual!
• Pupils walk to school at least once a week and take part in Warwickshire WOW scheme to reduce fuel emissions and car journeys.
• Cycle skills training took place in the summer term to give older pupils the training necessary to cycle safely. The walk or cycle ethos is promoted daily.
• Many environmental issues have been covered within curriculum work and during assemblies. Recent geography topic in KS2 has been about improving the environment it has included a visit to a recycling centre and a visit from the county recycling adviser. The children took a range of times with them to be recycled.
• The school has a compost bin and puts all fruit waste etc in it each day.
• The school routinely recycles all card, paper, plastic bottles, glass, cans, computer equipment, cartridges etc; we are happy to take the recycling of others where door collection by council isn’t available e.g. cartridges, card and plastic bottles.
• We have acquired the use of two plots of land and the children are currently planning which vegetables to plant. We have just had our first harvest. Gardening will be done as part of science and also as a lunchtime or after school gardening club.
• Energy efficiency and care of the environment is a topic in science in KS1 as well as a recurrent theme in literacy/phse and other subjects. We care for our school, we care for each other, we care for our planet.
| walking bus record breaking attempt for brake
on 13 june we took part in the record-breaking walking bus, co-ordinated by brake, the road safety charity. click here to visit the brake website to find out more about brake, the record-breaking walking bus and road safety information for teachers, parents and kids.
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