As everyone enjoyed the KS2 litter pick so much, Twiggs Ground Maintenance have agreed to return and accompany us on another!

The date for this will be Thursday 30th March so plenty of time to prepare!

A letter will be going out to those involved nearer the time but make sure you make a space in your diary!

Today the Eco Reps met to discuss issues that concern us within school.

Firstly, we spoke about how to save energy. The Eco Reps are going to speak to their class and collect any ideas they have for saving energy within school. Each Eco Rep has been given some posters to display in their classroom to remind children to recycle paper, turn taps off and turn lights off when no-one is in the room. The reps were also keen to talk about turning the classroom lights off on sunny days to save electricity. They also spoke about keeping classrooms warmer by closing windows and doors to keep the heat in and will be sharing that with their class. Another issues they would like to tackle is making sure that teachers turn off their whiteboard and computer when not in use, especially at lunchtimes and when they go home.

Another issue raised was the amount of waste packaging that we now have. The Eco Reps decided they would like to arrange a competition in school to highlight the issue of rubbish and recycling. Each class will be asked to bring in boxes, bottles, plastic lids and anything else that can be recycled from home. They will then create a sculpture in their art session which will be judged by the Eco Reps to see which is the most creative. The winning class will receive a prize decided by the Eco Reps! More details about this will follow!

Finally, the Eco Reps decided what they would like to do with the money they found on their litter pick yesterday. It was decided that we would use the money to buy ingredients to create some winter bird feeders as food is scare in the winter.

The reps enjoyed their meeting and will meet again in a couple of weeks to further discuss the issues above and feedback any energy saving ideas their class have.

Today the KS2 Eco Reps went on their first litter pick in our local community.

We were joined by Twiggs Ground Maintainance who took us onto Park Street and our local housing estate. The Eco Reps wanted to make sure we had cleaned the school driveway of litter before we headed off and did a fantastic job!

We moved onto Park Street and found lots of litter including plastic carrier bags, crisp packets and drink cans. We also found lots of tiny pieces of plastic litter that were very difficult to pick up, but we succeeded!

We moved into the local housing estate and unfortunately didn't have to look very hard to find rubbish. We were very shocked with the amount of litter on people's private properties as well!

The most litter was found on Park Street at the bus stop behind the phone exchange box. There were lots of bottles, sweet wrappers and packets and they were right next to the bin!

All the eco reps were shocked at the amount of litter and asked if they could go on another litter pick to help clean their community.

Thank you to Twiggs for accompanying us again, and we are looking forward to working with them in the future!

Well done Eco Reps! You have made a difference to our community today!

Today the Eco Reps from KS1 and Year 2/3 took part in a litter pick in our nature area.

Over the past few weeks, our nature area has changed significantly with the Autumn weather and most of the litter has been covered with leaves.

Nonetheless, the Eco Reps were keen to search and were amazed at how much litter was found!

The majority of the litter was sweet wrappers and crisp packets although they were saddened to see that some of the litter had come from adults in school such as plastic from storage boxes and laminated work!

The Eco Reps worked tirelessly to pick up as much litter as they could find and were pleased with the four big bags of rubbish collected!

They even asked if they could come again to help keep our school environment tidy!

​Look at how well they did!