Inspection Day

Thank you to Mr Sam Harrison for coming along to our school today to share in our ECO schools work. He enjoyed chatting to the pupils and seeing all the recycled items we have around the school as part of his visit. He took home his crisp packet badge and the ECO torch!  The ECO team answered  questions well and it was super to drop into nursery to see all their plants growing and tadpoles swimming about. Pr 5/6/7 shared their John Muir DVD from Eden Court JRock.

Pr 5 sang a great ECO song to welcome Sam and Niamh was a smiling Recycle Robin ECO Superhero!

Well done everyone for a superb team effort!

 

Green Flag 3 Agenda

Tuesday 9 June 2015

10.30 am – 12.30 pm

1. Welcome – Recycling Robin (Niamh Macdonald) to present “ECO Torch.”

 Badge for Mr Harrison – presented by Freya Pr 1

Pr 5 to sing an ECO song.

ECO team to welcome Mr Harrison and introduce themselves

2. Eco Team Meeting

3, Tour of School

4. Visits to classes

5. Review and feedback

Let’s Sort It!

We’re all ready!

Let’s Sort It!

 

We have been busy getting ready for our ECO Green Flag inspection on Tuesday. We talked about our Litter Policy at assembly. Hope the sun will shine and we all have a great day.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

ECO Green Flag 3 inspection

Let’s Sort It

 

Let’s Sort It on Tuesday 11 June as we look forward to welcoming Mr Sam Harrison along for our third ECO Schools Green Flag inspection.

The inspection will involve time talking with the ECO team, a tour around the school and then popping into classes for some ECO news about what classes have been doing.

We have one or two surprises planned to welcome Mr Harrison.

We have all worked hard and would be delighted to receive Green Flag status again.

ECO Meeting 7 22.5.15

       Let’s Sort It

 

May 22 2015 11.30am  – 12.00 pm Meet at reception

Agenda for Meeting 7

1. Welcome and apologies

2. Litter (Litter Policy)

3. Green Flag 3 update

4. Action Plan

5. Date of next meeting June 5th (TBC)

Litter display

Let’s Sort It!

We shared our Litter Survey results as a display at Reception. Pupils can look at the graphs and ways to reduce litter and improve their diet! Eat healthier snacks with compostable packaging!

Litter Policy

http://www.powtoon.com/show/csY4fmnWLRh/lochardil-litter-policy/#/

Thank you to some helpful pupils from Pr 5 who made a litter Policy powtoon for us.

Let’s Sort It!

Environmental Review 2015 goes Powtoon!

http://www.powtoon.com/show/bPQWMRwiMuJ/lochardil-environmental-review/#/

Check out the super Powtoon created by Sam and Ewan. They presented  some sections of the Review by highlighting the parts we are happy with and our action points too.

What a lot of work – but all worth it. Thanks to the Powtoon experts!

Pr 5 Litter Survey

Pr 5 have been working on Data Handling as part of their maths this term. We carried out a Litter Survey since we were on Litter Duty too. We split the school campus into 5 areas. We divided our class into teams for each zone. We prepared a tally chart with the sorts of litter we expected to find in our school grounds.

We counted up the types of litter found and found the total for each area. We drew bar charts to show the data we collected.

In every area, the greatest amount collected was sweetie wrappers or little bits left from opening a packet corner or top. This made us think about the amount of sweets we are eating for snacks.

We came up with a few suggestions to improve this problem.

Share results and highlight problem of sweetie wrappers.

Encourage everyone to bin their rubbish.

Encourage everyone to bring healthier options.

Try out Fruity Fridays again.

 

Schools Grounds – Buildings and Space

Let’s Sort It Mrs Prentice and her Citizenship Group worked on Buildings and Space. We discussed our school grounds and any particular needs we had. We agreed that having an outdoor learning space would be great. We did have our pergola but it was removed to make way for the extension. We researched on the internet and made some design boards with some of the things we would like our outdoor learning area to have. We could use a poly tunnel for our classroom. We answered some of the Environmental Review questions. We even did some weeding!