We are proud to be an ECO GREEN FLAG school!
THE ECO CODE
G reat to save water
R ecycling for ever
E nergy needs to be saved
E very one can mace a difference
N ever waste what you can re-use
T ogether we will be green
E ach and every one of us can compost
A ct now
M ake the world a better place
Eco News! (latest first)
Children from Goldstone school have been asked to make a contribution to a heads' conference in Brighton and Hove taking place in March 2021. They have been filmed talking about what their vision is for a sustainable/ eco school of the future.
The eco committee have been working hard to think up ways to inspire children to think carefully about how to look after the school environment. They have made a film that is being shown on Goldstone TV all around the school.
Our eco committee are up and running again in a covid safe way. This year year groups are taking it in turns so they can remain in their bubbles. At the moment it is the turn of the year 6s. They are busy making videos about litter in the school and planning for a remote climate change protest. They also participated in the online youth climate summit. More news on this soon!
https://www.transform-our-world.org/youth-climate-summit-2020
Goldstone teachers Mrs Harris and Miss Lewis contributed to an online webinar about outdoor learning attended by 65 teachers. They made presentations about the work we do outdoors at Goldstone Primary School. Here's a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzOshGx5BgE&feature=youtu.be
Feedback from teachers included comments such as:
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Hearing the fantastic things that are going on in different schools’ – LOTS of responses similar to this ‘Hearing the teachers sharing their lesson ideas.’ ‘Examples of others sharing good practice and linking to the curriculum – very inspiring’ ‘Hearing about The Lost Words Project’ |
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‘The confidence in the air that there is a different way of doing things’. |
The eco committee have been thinking up ways to make our grounds more bio-diverse. They have done a survey of plants and animals in our wildlife area and are researching into ways we can make the area more useable for learners and wildlife.
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Goldstone’s Eco committee - THE GREEN TEAM - have been working hard on their action plan.
At the start of the year the committee identified three areas across the school that needed development:
- litter (single use plastic waste),
- waste, (a lack of in school composting)
- energy use (whiteboards, lights etc… being left on in classrooms.)
Last term the committee had a flash litter mob- they bought out litter pickers, gloves and bin bags onto the school field and blew a whistle. Lots of children joined in to collect as much litter as possible.
When we examined what we had collected the children found lots of single-use plastics. In order to raise awareness of the problems associated with single use plastic use they organised and delivered an assembly across the school. They came up with the idea of putting a crisp packet bin in the dinner halls so they can collected and recycled.
The committee met with our school gardener, Ruth Chalker, and she showed them our new school compost bins and explained how compost was made. The children now collect all the compostable waste from around the school and put it into the bins. We now have our own compost to use in the garden! More information on the exciting projects being undertaken in the garden can be found on the gardening page.
We have also distributed battery recycling boxes to every family, and children have been bringing in their spent batteries to the school office in order to recycle them.
So far this year all our hard work has meant we have been able to achieve our bronze and silver eco awards. Watch this space though, as we are not too far away from achieving the green flag for Goldstone!
