Bulletin Board

April 2025:

• Project Bind Eat Smart Food Waste Project. We managed to reduce our food waste by 25%. We are working on composting and trying new foods. We even worked with the LA chefs to taste meals for the 2025-2026 menu. Look below for our Food Waste Action Plan. 

March 2025:

• Eco club are taking part in the Great Big School Clean throughout March and April. We will share how many bags are rubbish were collected in April!

February 2025:

• We are taking part in a Food Waste project to reduce the amount of food waste in school. Waste Warriors worked with Georgie to carry out audits to asses the food waste in school before and after the interventions have been implemented and then delivered the results during assembly. 
• Waste Warriors have weekly meetings to come up with ideas for reducing food waste and to discuss the amount of food being wasted.

January 2025:

• We recieved our school's yearly carbon footprint. A carbon footprint is the amount of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, released into the atmosphere by human activities. Eco Warriors will work on trying to reduce this.

November 2024:

• Eco club have taken taken part in 'Cut Your Carbon' which is a fun way to learn about the carbon emissions we produce in our everyday lives. We thought about the small positive changes we can make at a school and at home. 

• Eco Warriors and the Eco Committee are working towards collecting data to calculate our school's carbon footprint. 

• Mrs Dube and four children attended a 'Go Zero Heroes Newcastle' event at the Civic Centre. The children shared with other schools what they have been doing around climate change. They also had the opportunity to engage with other organisations which are supporting schools in their sustainability journeys.

October 2024:

• Year 3 took part in a session all about being an Eco Hero and talking about where 'waste' goes. They also looked at the different types of jobs too which could be involved. The class took part in a quiz about which objects/materials would either be reduced, reused or recycled.

Our Carbon Footprint

• Eco Club and the Eco Committee are currently collecting data to calculate our school's carbon footprint. We will share the results in January 2025!

Green Flag Award

The Eco Warriors are working hard completing a school audit to start working towards our Green Flag Award. They're attending regular, weekly meetings and interviewing staff and children to find the answers to some important topics.  

The Big Plastic Count

In March, we took part in The Big Plastic Count to find out how much plastic waste households in the UK throw away.

And the result? 

1.7 billion pieces of plastic waste were counted during The Big Plastic Count – this equates to 90 billion pieces of plastic per year! 

We can also see what's happening with the UK's plastic waste. Take a look at the chart below to see the results:

As part of the Woodland Trust Platinum award, Year 6 spent the afternoon being photographers, taking images of our school forest.  They used a range of techniques to capture some interesting shots and then spent time editing and applying special effects before producing some amazing collages.