Recently the Energy Team have been doing lots of exciting things such as being on the radio, being in the newspaper and being on the news. We all went to the Guild Hall where we showed other schools what we have done so far, we even showed the film we made! We were also presented with a certificate by the Counciler Gerrish. We've proved our point and now the school are saving it really well! We need to continue though and we are going to hold a parents meeting soon so we hope you can come..... for further details they will be in the newsletter soon!

White paper recycling

Hello from the White Paper Team.
(The white paper team are working hard to collect all the used white paper in the school so that it can be recycled.)

As you may have known, there are three bins - one for rubbish (small black), one for white paper (big metal one in the lower school and a short green one - in the upper school) and one for coloured paper (cardboard bin in lower school and upper school) - but some of the bins aren't as good as we would like. Once we found rubbers, pens and sharpeners in a white bin! White paper that we would like in the white paper bins are things like newspapers, backing paper, border paper, plain white paper, paper with writing on and paper with paint, pens or pencils on. If you have anything but the paper listed in your bins we will not take it!

from the White Paper Team (Lizzy, Eleanor and Katerina)

Energy Team

The Energy Team kicked things off last term and have been busy trying to make the school a greener, more energy efficient place ever since.

After spying on the Junior School energy behaviour and measuring how much energy we were using in Term 1, we sprang into action after half term.

We put up lots of signs and posters all around the junior building, reminding people to turn electrical equipment off and giving top tips on saving energy.



We spoke to people that could help us - Mr Courtney, Kay the cleaner and Mr Croker. We made a fantastic film and showed it to the whole of KS2 and we explained to them how making electricity actually causes lots of pollution and heats the whole world up.

We've kept measuring how much electricity the junior school's been using. If you're interested in finding out how much, take a look at the OWL monitor in the library. It will also tell you how much greenhouse gas we've produced and how much money we've spent on electricty since we set the monitor up.