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meet the eco-team
Article 15: Every child has the right to meet with other children and to join in groups and organisations, as long as this does not stop other people enjoying their rights.
Eco-Team is made up of children and staff (Hannah Gully and Lindsay Monk) who have volunteered themselves for the role and who have a real passion for all things eco. We have set up the team as we would like to help make our school and our planet a more eco-friendly and sustainable place. We are hoping that the work we do will help and benefit the environment and will also help us to achieve Eco-Schools status and the Green Flag Award.
We meet every Wednesday to discuss and plan events to support our school to become as environmentally friendly as possible. We learn about environmental issues through our Learn Together curriculum as well.
So far Eco-Team have:
Conducted an Environmental Review, which we used to identify three the school’s three main areas for development:
-Waste
-School grounds
-Transport
We will focus on these three topics for two years and then conduct another Environmental Review to select another three topics.Written and designed an Environmental Code for the school
Planned and delivered a number of assemblies
Organised a bake sale to raise funds for Eco-School
Helped clear up and maintain the school’s herb garden and flower beds
Conducted a number of recycling surveys
Responded to the results of the recycling surveys and put new paper, plastic, general and food waste bins in every classroom
Organised and help run our first ever Water Festival
Organised and help run the Big Pedal
Made an Eco-Team display in the main reception area
Eco-Team assembly
To start off the year the Eco-Team took the opportunity to speak to the whole school in assembly and let them know what they have been up to since September.
Collectively the children decided on some key areas that they wanted to talk to the school about. These focused on the school grounds: the use of the mindful maze, looking after the plants, how we are treating the animal habitats and the use of chalk at lunchtime. They reminded everyone about being an active traveller with living streets and how we must remember to use of food bins correctly. Lastly they introduced the school to Eco-Bricks and encouraged everyone to make their own to contribute to building an eco-brick buddy bench.
Well done to our November active travellers!
A huge well done to everyone who has become an active traveller this month and to those who have been awarded the November badge. As a school we have even more active travellers and a huge well done to Tiger class for achieving the most active class award. We have been really impressed with the enthusiasm from everyone this past month, lets see if we can keep is up during December.
We’re energy savers!!!
After finishing ‘Switch off Fortnight’ the eco-team helped by completing another spontaneous audit in the hope to find that the whole school have saved energy. The second audit showed a difference of -5.6kWh over a 24hr period which the children we are extremely pleased about. If sustained over the year, it could be a difference of -1091kWh! As a school we were rewarded with this certificate. The eco-team will now continue to promote saving energy in our school.
Taking part in ‘Switch of Fortnight’
Over two weeks in November, Redfield took part in EDF’s energy campaign
‘Switch of Fortnight’.
The campaign aims to help reduce the amount of energy we are using at
school and inform everyone about the effects of using a large amount.
The Eco-club were shocked to see the amount we were using after completing
a energy audit around the school. They learnt why it’s so important to save
energy and decided, with the help of EDF energy, we needed to make a change.
The children worked very hard to create a short video that was shared to all
classes introducing them to ‘Switch of Fortnight’. During their campaign,
the Eco-Club helped to spread the word about the importance of saving
energy. The children also created small posters to remind classes to turn off
their smartboards and laptops when they weren’t using them.
After the two weeks, the children will complete a second audit in anticipation
of the school’s improvement.
Our first month as Active Travellers
A big well done to all of our children who have become great active travellers during the WOW walk to school challenge. We have completed our first month and have been really impressed with all the effort everyone has made to walk, cycle, scoot, hop off and park and stride.
Our most active class for October was awarded to Narwhals who received the certificate in celebration assembly.
A huge well done to all those children who managed 3 active travels a week to earn themselves a WOW October badge.
Good luck to all classes in earning the certificate for the most active travellers in November.
ANOTHER HUGE CONGRATULATIONS!
Silver award!
Congratulations to everyone is has contributed to us achieving our silver award!
New Recycling Posters
To help everyone at Redfield use our new recycling bins effectively, Eco- club have visited each class and presented them with our helpful new recycling posters.
Introducing our newest members of Eco-Club
We have some exciting new members of eco club to introduce.
From year 1- Mabli & Lyra
Year 2 – Minnie & Poppy (absent from photo)
Year 3 – Laura & Ayuub
Year 4- Aurelia, Freddie, Sam, Isla.
We also want to take the opportunity to say a massive thank you to all our previous members and all their hard work!
Eco Team 2018-2019
Meeting with caretaker Ray
Eco-Team met with our school’s caretake, Ray. We wanted to get his views on recycling in our school (especially after we put new bins in place last year) and find out if we the Eco-Team and the school could be doing more to help. Ray has said he thinks the new bins are great and the school is starting to recycle more effectively. However, we could help him and the cleaning staff more by:
•Ensuring we take the food bins outside every break time
•Going to each class and explaining what can and cannot go into each bin
•Setting up a cardboard drop-off point as cardboard cannot go into paper bins
•Meet with Ray next term to see if the changes we have made have helped.
Travel Tracker with living streets
A HUGE WELL DONE
A huge well done to Eco-Team who have helped Redfield achieve the Eco-Schools Bronze Award. We are very close to achieving the Silver award too!
A big eco-thankyou
A huge thank you to these wonderful children for all their hard word over the last year with Eco-School. You have achieved so much and have put in so much effort. Two members of this team will remain on the new Eco-Team to support the new children joining.
World oceans day 8/6/2018
For World Oceans Day this year Eco Team lead some activities throughout the day to educate others about the dangers of plastic in ocean. We also held a Water Festival to engage children in the day. In our Water Festival we tried to save fish from plastic, reuse clothes to make a patch work blanket and we had activities that looked at the amount of water that goes into the production of different materials and food. We also raised £89 for Project Ocean.
THE BIG PEDAL RESULTS
We all tried hard to join in this year's Big Pedal. We enjoyed getting on our bikes and scooters and enjoying the great weather we had. We were lucky to have Jo from the Sustains charity come in and deliver an assembly.
At the end of the two weeks we positioned:
For all schools taking part: 165/495
Regionally: 9/49
We are really proud of this as we are still a developing school. Imagine what we can achience once all classes are full!
The Big pedal 2018
This year we are participating in Sustran's Big Pedal. It starts on Monday 23rd April
and will finish on Friday 4th May. The Eco-Team planned and delivered an assembly
to the whole school to promote the challenge. The aim is to try and get at least 15%
of the school cycling or scooting to school. The Big Pedal aims to encourage more
families to leave the cars behind and duct of the books and scooters. Here are some
Going for green
These are the steps we to achieve and cover in order to get each award.
Eco Team bake sale
The Eco Team had their first Bake Sale to raise money to spend on developing the school grounds. They raised £100, thank you to all of you who bought cakes!
