Highfield Infants' School Spring 2016
Eco News Highfield Infants’ School
Spring 2016
From Little Acorns Mighty Oak Trees Grow We want to nurture a love of nature in our children. To excite their curiosity, so that as they grow, so does their understanding, desire, and capacity to look after our world. We want to inspire budding botanists, marine biologists, conservationists and gardeners! We were delighted with this lovely picture by Lola in Otter Class of her family gardening together. Year Two have been learning about the Earth and the
of a group of children in Badger Class, who set up their own Nature Club and meet during playtime to talk about their learning.
deforestation of our rainforests. They went to visit Bedgebury Pinetum to learn about different species of trees.
This captured the interest
Our Eco Council meets monthly to discuss issues affecting both our school and our world. In the last meeting they put forward the idea of an electricity free morning. Keep an eye on the calendar for a date!
Eco Councillors Otter Class Jessica Danny Rabbit Class Sanjivan Ava Owl Class Rachel Leon Badger Adrian Iris Deer Class Raphael Milly Fox Class Edward Scarlett
Visit from the Royal Society of Protection of Birds On Thursday 25th February Year One received a visit from Ian of the RSPB. He came to raise awareness of the need to look after nature walk around the grounds to observe the signs of Spring and pass on some interesting facts about our local environment. The Friends of Highfield Infants’ School generously nature and to tell the fund school membership of children more about the the RSBP which ensures RSPB. Primarily known the children have access to for their protection of regular newsletters about birds they also work to British wildlife. You can take conserve lots of other out personal membership by British wildlife. He took a visiting www.rspb.org.uk. group of children on a
First Minutes of the Nature Club
Do you have... any unwanted stones to develop our Forest School area? Or spare materials for craft activities? Please contact Mrs Hayward or let the school office know if you can help.
Please... turn off your engine while you’re parked in Highfield Drive.
Eco News Scootsure Training On Wednesday 10th February thirty Year Two children received training from Scootsure who provide a playground based training exercise for scooter users. It is intended to improve safety for riders and pedestrians and make scooting to school a viable, active and sustainable alternative to using the car. They covered topics
including: safety checks, sharing pavement space and emergency stops. The training was very successful and we would like to run further sessions in the future. These will be offered to those children in Year Two who didn’t secure a place this time. In the meantime here are some tips they gave us
on how to scoot safely to school: Wear a helmet. Always check what is behind you before you start a journey. Take care when sharing the pavement and avoid any obstacles. Remember to use the Green Cross Code when crossing the road!
Snowdrops One of the earliest bulbs to flower. Look out for them in damp woods and by streams. Bluebell shoots These pop up early to get as much light as possible before the tree canopy closes over. Elder budburst The elder is one of the first trees to sprout leaves. Look out for its dark red buds bursting open.
Primrose Primroses like damp and shade; spot them in woods, meadows and hedgebanks. Lesser celandine Look out for shiny yellow flowers and heartshaped leaves covering woodland floors.
Signs of Spring Ready to get detecting? Look for the first signs that Spring is on its way: Bird Song Listen for birds like the song thrush tweeting that spring is on the way. Frogspawn Look for balls of jelly in ponds, ditches and slowmoving streams. The black specks are eggs. Hazel catkins These are the male flowers of the hazel tree. They’re sometimes called lambs’ tails.
Recycle your WEEE! Don’t forget you have until Friday 4th March to recycle any unwanted electrical and electronic equipment. There is a large pink skip in Highfield Junior School car park which has rear doors for any larger items. Please check there is still available space before unloading any heavy items! Up to 30 schools in
Together we recycled 9324 Christmas cards which means the Woodland Trust will plant 9
Bromley are partaking in this scheme. As we buy Recycled Christmas Cards 2500 more electronic goods, 2000 1500 and replace them more 1000 often, e-waste is becoming 500 0 one of the biggest waste challenges of the future. So please root through trees for us. Well done to your cupboards and anyOtter class who recycled thing with a plug or battery over 2000 cards!! can go in! There is the additional incentive of a share of £1000 prize!
Spring 2016
From Little Acorns Mighty Oak Trees Grow We want to nurture a love of nature in our children. To excite their curiosity, so that as they grow, so does their understanding, desire, and capacity to look after our world. We want to inspire budding botanists, marine biologists, conservationists and gardeners! We were delighted with this lovely picture by Lola in Otter Class of her family gardening together. Year Two have been learning about the Earth and the
of a group of children in Badger Class, who set up their own Nature Club and meet during playtime to talk about their learning.
deforestation of our rainforests. They went to visit Bedgebury Pinetum to learn about different species of trees.
This captured the interest
Our Eco Council meets monthly to discuss issues affecting both our school and our world. In the last meeting they put forward the idea of an electricity free morning. Keep an eye on the calendar for a date!
Eco Councillors Otter Class Jessica Danny Rabbit Class Sanjivan Ava Owl Class Rachel Leon Badger Adrian Iris Deer Class Raphael Milly Fox Class Edward Scarlett
Visit from the Royal Society of Protection of Birds On Thursday 25th February Year One received a visit from Ian of the RSPB. He came to raise awareness of the need to look after nature walk around the grounds to observe the signs of Spring and pass on some interesting facts about our local environment. The Friends of Highfield Infants’ School generously nature and to tell the fund school membership of children more about the the RSBP which ensures RSPB. Primarily known the children have access to for their protection of regular newsletters about birds they also work to British wildlife. You can take conserve lots of other out personal membership by British wildlife. He took a visiting www.rspb.org.uk. group of children on a
First Minutes of the Nature Club
Do you have... any unwanted stones to develop our Forest School area? Or spare materials for craft activities? Please contact Mrs Hayward or let the school office know if you can help.
Please... turn off your engine while you’re parked in Highfield Drive.
Eco News Scootsure Training On Wednesday 10th February thirty Year Two children received training from Scootsure who provide a playground based training exercise for scooter users. It is intended to improve safety for riders and pedestrians and make scooting to school a viable, active and sustainable alternative to using the car. They covered topics
including: safety checks, sharing pavement space and emergency stops. The training was very successful and we would like to run further sessions in the future. These will be offered to those children in Year Two who didn’t secure a place this time. In the meantime here are some tips they gave us
on how to scoot safely to school: Wear a helmet. Always check what is behind you before you start a journey. Take care when sharing the pavement and avoid any obstacles. Remember to use the Green Cross Code when crossing the road!
Snowdrops One of the earliest bulbs to flower. Look out for them in damp woods and by streams. Bluebell shoots These pop up early to get as much light as possible before the tree canopy closes over. Elder budburst The elder is one of the first trees to sprout leaves. Look out for its dark red buds bursting open.
Primrose Primroses like damp and shade; spot them in woods, meadows and hedgebanks. Lesser celandine Look out for shiny yellow flowers and heartshaped leaves covering woodland floors.
Signs of Spring Ready to get detecting? Look for the first signs that Spring is on its way: Bird Song Listen for birds like the song thrush tweeting that spring is on the way. Frogspawn Look for balls of jelly in ponds, ditches and slowmoving streams. The black specks are eggs. Hazel catkins These are the male flowers of the hazel tree. They’re sometimes called lambs’ tails.
Recycle your WEEE! Don’t forget you have until Friday 4th March to recycle any unwanted electrical and electronic equipment. There is a large pink skip in Highfield Junior School car park which has rear doors for any larger items. Please check there is still available space before unloading any heavy items! Up to 30 schools in
Together we recycled 9324 Christmas cards which means the Woodland Trust will plant 9
Bromley are partaking in this scheme. As we buy Recycled Christmas Cards 2500 more electronic goods, 2000 1500 and replace them more 1000 often, e-waste is becoming 500 0 one of the biggest waste challenges of the future. So please root through trees for us. Well done to your cupboards and anyOtter class who recycled thing with a plug or battery over 2000 cards!! can go in! There is the additional incentive of a share of £1000 prize!
