Eco News Spring 2015
St. Peter’s Primary School Eco News No 26 Spring 2014/15
Waste Busters & Recycling how you can help. At school we use lots of paper. Much of it could end up in the bin but we do a lot of recycling. By putting used paper in the blue bin, we help to save trees. Use the right bin; at school and at home we have different bins for different waste. At school we have: paper bins, cardboard bin, food waste bin, tin foil bin and the land fill bin. At home most of us have 2 or 3 bins: * Black: Land fill * Blue: Recycling * Green: Garden Waste Land fill can cause pollution all over the world and takes up valuable land space. Where possible we should avoid using the land fill bin. Busta and Pongs funny Recycling Song that we heard at the Wastebusters Assembly on Thursday 19th March can be found here; March was Waste month. http://www.wastebuster.co.uk/kidsbin/bustas-bin
You can help no matter how big you are and we are lucky as Imberhorne Recycling Centre is not far away. * Avoid the land fill bin. If your waste can be recycled, put it in the recycling bin * Avoid paper waste: use e-mail instead of paper * Use a lunch box with compartments to avoid cling film, plastic bags and other packaging Remember: Used stuff can be new stuff.
Oscar Vaughan, Year 5. Wastebusters! On the 19th March 2015 Eco Team reps from years 3,4,5 and 6 had a lesson about waste with Matt from Wastebusters. First, we had cards which we had to put into order from most important to least important. Then we had a piece of paper on which we had to draw things that you could reuse and recycle. When it was time to go back to class he gave us all a pen that was made out of old plastic bottles. Now from that lesson we know now what we can recycle and what we can reuse. Did you know that if you recycle your metal tins they could be used to make a car? Keira Drewry, Year 5. Thank you to all parents and staff who contributed to the textile and electrical goods recycling day on 24th March – there were 77 bags
altogether and we gained points towards science equipment for the school.
National Walk to School Week This will run from 18th - 22nd May and is an opportunity for St. Peter’s to promote safe and sustainable travel. Walk to School helps to promote a wide variety of benefits including improved health and fitness, learning essential road safety skills, reduced congestion and encouraging considerate parking behaviours. THE WALKING BUS NEEDS YOU – meet us at the entrance to the King’s Centre at 8.15am on Wednesdays (not 6 May).
Recycling is good for the environment In our house, we have a special bin to put our recycling in that the dustbin men take away to recycle, but you don't have to let them take ALL your recycling, you can use some to make fun things! I used an odd sock and some cotton wool to make a Sock Ninja!
You can use boxes to make a robot, or a dog, or a crocodile; an old jar and some paper and string to make a bug garden; and a toilet roll can be a bat, or a ghost or a vampire! These are some ideas from Art Ninja and Mister Maker, and you can look for more good ideas on their websites.www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows /art-ninjaand www.mistermaker.com Jacob Kosifu, Year 1
Water Conservation Recently from watching news on TV, I discovered that in some countries water is scarce. The news showed a young boy who wakes up early in the morning to fetch some drinking water that is dirty from a lake which can make him sick. On the other hand, I was thinking that our country’s water is almost limitless. Since we have lots of water, we should conserve it. Remember
Showers use less water than baths Used bathwater can be used to flush the toilet which saves at least 6 litres of water, or to water plants When we wash dishes or wash hands, we switch the tap off unless we need it
By doing these simple things, we can conserve water and therefore make more water available for other countries in need of water just like that little boy. Nishan De Leon, Year 4.
Frog Spawn At the end of last term we saw seven clumps of frog spawn in the
and jars, 2 trees worth of paper, 70 food cans and 45kg of plastic. Neo Wooster, Year 3.
pond in the Quiet Garden at St. Peter’s. The frogspawn hatches after a few weeks and the tadpoles will grow into frogs. This takes about 3 – 4 months. Hopefully we should see some frogs this term. We are watching some tadpoles in a tank in Year 2’s classroom. Libby Nesom, Year 1. Environmental Facts and Figures A dripping tap means you’re wasting 13 litres of water a day. It takes around 450 years for a plastic bottle to degrade. The average shower time is 7 minutes: for a shower with a flow rate of 10 litres per minute, a 3 minute reduction in showering time would save 30 litres per day. Over a course of a year this would result in water savings of over 10,000 litres. On average, each household in Britain produces around one tonne of waste every year. Much of this waste contains useful materials such as paper, glass and metals which could be recycled: creating less pollution and saving energy. Each person in one year generates 10 times their own weight in household rubbish, throwing away an estimated 90 drink cans, 107 bottles
Fairtrade News Fairtrade Fortnight 2015 took place from 23 February – 8 March and the school had a special Assembly on cocoa with Laura Jane Loftus, a former St. Peter’s pupil who now works for the Fairtrade Foundation. She also worked with Years 5 and 6 for the morning. The Fairtrade stall at the Fashion Show on Friday 6 March raised £71.50.
What can we do to help the Community? Don’t drop litter – put it in the bin! Don’t damage trees. Don’t stand on flowers – treat them like it’s your only thing. Treat the community like your family. Lola Hubsch, Year 4.
Ten Tips to be eco-friendly When you use a tea bag, put it in the compost instead of the bin. When you have finished washing up, pour the water on to the plants to help them grow.
Any unwanted plastic, glass or paper should be recycled. When you are not using water or electricity they should be turned off. 150,000,000 plastic bags are used every week, and are not recycled, so use canvas bags instead. Set up a recycling centre in your home, use old boxes, crates, or even bags. Use both sides of a piece of paper when printing.
would be very helpful. We have sown our vegetables in the plastic bottle greenhouse which now has a roof and also some in the two allotments, the Reception small garden and in the outside area near Years 1 & 2. The Quiet Garden has some new waterside plants and the Kingcups look beautiful in the pond. Adjacent is the Meadow which has been reseeded – at present the Cowslips are flowering. Time to get the Moth Trap out soon, especially if the warm weather continues.
Buy a water butt in which to store water. Walk to school instead creating pollution riding in a car. Switch off the light when you leave a room. Amelia Fraser, Year 6.
Recycling Changes in West Sussex Did you know plastic pots, tubs and trays can now be recycled across West Sussex? This includes yoghurt pots, punnets for fruit and veg and cosmetic pots. The change came in on 1st April.
School Grounds Week As usual St. Peter’s will be celebrating School Grounds week after half term from 8-12 June so if anyone has bedding plants they can bring in for our flower troughs that
Tip from Friends of the Earth DIY pots for seeds
Start your seeds off in DIY pots, made from recycled materials like yoghurt pots. Try paper or cardboard, like toilet roll tubes and egg boxes, if you want to transplant straight into the ground without disturbing the roots. Thanks to all Eco-Team members and other pupils who help collect litter and do environmental work at St. Peter’s.
Waste Busters & Recycling how you can help. At school we use lots of paper. Much of it could end up in the bin but we do a lot of recycling. By putting used paper in the blue bin, we help to save trees. Use the right bin; at school and at home we have different bins for different waste. At school we have: paper bins, cardboard bin, food waste bin, tin foil bin and the land fill bin. At home most of us have 2 or 3 bins: * Black: Land fill * Blue: Recycling * Green: Garden Waste Land fill can cause pollution all over the world and takes up valuable land space. Where possible we should avoid using the land fill bin. Busta and Pongs funny Recycling Song that we heard at the Wastebusters Assembly on Thursday 19th March can be found here; March was Waste month. http://www.wastebuster.co.uk/kidsbin/bustas-bin
You can help no matter how big you are and we are lucky as Imberhorne Recycling Centre is not far away. * Avoid the land fill bin. If your waste can be recycled, put it in the recycling bin * Avoid paper waste: use e-mail instead of paper * Use a lunch box with compartments to avoid cling film, plastic bags and other packaging Remember: Used stuff can be new stuff.
Oscar Vaughan, Year 5. Wastebusters! On the 19th March 2015 Eco Team reps from years 3,4,5 and 6 had a lesson about waste with Matt from Wastebusters. First, we had cards which we had to put into order from most important to least important. Then we had a piece of paper on which we had to draw things that you could reuse and recycle. When it was time to go back to class he gave us all a pen that was made out of old plastic bottles. Now from that lesson we know now what we can recycle and what we can reuse. Did you know that if you recycle your metal tins they could be used to make a car? Keira Drewry, Year 5. Thank you to all parents and staff who contributed to the textile and electrical goods recycling day on 24th March – there were 77 bags
altogether and we gained points towards science equipment for the school.
National Walk to School Week This will run from 18th - 22nd May and is an opportunity for St. Peter’s to promote safe and sustainable travel. Walk to School helps to promote a wide variety of benefits including improved health and fitness, learning essential road safety skills, reduced congestion and encouraging considerate parking behaviours. THE WALKING BUS NEEDS YOU – meet us at the entrance to the King’s Centre at 8.15am on Wednesdays (not 6 May).
Recycling is good for the environment In our house, we have a special bin to put our recycling in that the dustbin men take away to recycle, but you don't have to let them take ALL your recycling, you can use some to make fun things! I used an odd sock and some cotton wool to make a Sock Ninja!
You can use boxes to make a robot, or a dog, or a crocodile; an old jar and some paper and string to make a bug garden; and a toilet roll can be a bat, or a ghost or a vampire! These are some ideas from Art Ninja and Mister Maker, and you can look for more good ideas on their websites.www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows /art-ninjaand www.mistermaker.com Jacob Kosifu, Year 1
Water Conservation Recently from watching news on TV, I discovered that in some countries water is scarce. The news showed a young boy who wakes up early in the morning to fetch some drinking water that is dirty from a lake which can make him sick. On the other hand, I was thinking that our country’s water is almost limitless. Since we have lots of water, we should conserve it. Remember
Showers use less water than baths Used bathwater can be used to flush the toilet which saves at least 6 litres of water, or to water plants When we wash dishes or wash hands, we switch the tap off unless we need it
By doing these simple things, we can conserve water and therefore make more water available for other countries in need of water just like that little boy. Nishan De Leon, Year 4.
Frog Spawn At the end of last term we saw seven clumps of frog spawn in the
and jars, 2 trees worth of paper, 70 food cans and 45kg of plastic. Neo Wooster, Year 3.
pond in the Quiet Garden at St. Peter’s. The frogspawn hatches after a few weeks and the tadpoles will grow into frogs. This takes about 3 – 4 months. Hopefully we should see some frogs this term. We are watching some tadpoles in a tank in Year 2’s classroom. Libby Nesom, Year 1. Environmental Facts and Figures A dripping tap means you’re wasting 13 litres of water a day. It takes around 450 years for a plastic bottle to degrade. The average shower time is 7 minutes: for a shower with a flow rate of 10 litres per minute, a 3 minute reduction in showering time would save 30 litres per day. Over a course of a year this would result in water savings of over 10,000 litres. On average, each household in Britain produces around one tonne of waste every year. Much of this waste contains useful materials such as paper, glass and metals which could be recycled: creating less pollution and saving energy. Each person in one year generates 10 times their own weight in household rubbish, throwing away an estimated 90 drink cans, 107 bottles
Fairtrade News Fairtrade Fortnight 2015 took place from 23 February – 8 March and the school had a special Assembly on cocoa with Laura Jane Loftus, a former St. Peter’s pupil who now works for the Fairtrade Foundation. She also worked with Years 5 and 6 for the morning. The Fairtrade stall at the Fashion Show on Friday 6 March raised £71.50.
What can we do to help the Community? Don’t drop litter – put it in the bin! Don’t damage trees. Don’t stand on flowers – treat them like it’s your only thing. Treat the community like your family. Lola Hubsch, Year 4.
Ten Tips to be eco-friendly When you use a tea bag, put it in the compost instead of the bin. When you have finished washing up, pour the water on to the plants to help them grow.
Any unwanted plastic, glass or paper should be recycled. When you are not using water or electricity they should be turned off. 150,000,000 plastic bags are used every week, and are not recycled, so use canvas bags instead. Set up a recycling centre in your home, use old boxes, crates, or even bags. Use both sides of a piece of paper when printing.
would be very helpful. We have sown our vegetables in the plastic bottle greenhouse which now has a roof and also some in the two allotments, the Reception small garden and in the outside area near Years 1 & 2. The Quiet Garden has some new waterside plants and the Kingcups look beautiful in the pond. Adjacent is the Meadow which has been reseeded – at present the Cowslips are flowering. Time to get the Moth Trap out soon, especially if the warm weather continues.
Buy a water butt in which to store water. Walk to school instead creating pollution riding in a car. Switch off the light when you leave a room. Amelia Fraser, Year 6.
Recycling Changes in West Sussex Did you know plastic pots, tubs and trays can now be recycled across West Sussex? This includes yoghurt pots, punnets for fruit and veg and cosmetic pots. The change came in on 1st April.
School Grounds Week As usual St. Peter’s will be celebrating School Grounds week after half term from 8-12 June so if anyone has bedding plants they can bring in for our flower troughs that
Tip from Friends of the Earth DIY pots for seeds
Start your seeds off in DIY pots, made from recycled materials like yoghurt pots. Try paper or cardboard, like toilet roll tubes and egg boxes, if you want to transplant straight into the ground without disturbing the roots. Thanks to all Eco-Team members and other pupils who help collect litter and do environmental work at St. Peter’s.
