Breathing Challenge

This is the breathing challenge!
Some of the eco team have been finding out how many times you breathe in a day  and how much CO2 you produce.
This is what we have found out so far.  
Did you know that one breath =0.5L which is 4% of CO2.
We also found out that you breathe 7 to 10 times in 30 seconds!
4% of 500ml = 20g of carbondioxide which = 1 breath.
1% = 125ml.
1% of 500ml = 5g of carbondioxide.
We estimate that you breathe 14 to 20 times in a minite.
28x2=56g.
4800g+24000g=28800g.
That is how much carbondioxide you breathe out if you do nothing but breathe - so that means you don't exercise.
So what a few of us did was figure out how much carbondioxide you breathe out if you exercise. So we doubled 28800g which = 57600g.
So now you know how much CO2 you breathe in a day!
Below is a picture showing you how you breathe in and out.

We raised £152.33!

Hello and welcome back to our eco club blog. We would like to say a big THANK-YOU! to everyone who bought stuff on our stand at the school fair.

It is the last week of eco club this week, until next year. We have been making cakes that are eco-themed to take home. OK, lets do the last eco review of the term.



ECO ITEM REVIEW!

By Theo Binns

Last week, we went to Cribbs Causeway and found out that you can get an eco steam car wash which cleans your car better than water and is much more efficent than using water. Prices start from £7, but can go up to £95. For the top one, the "bee's knees" you get everything you need, such as seat upholstery cleaning, a full body and interior wash and a freshener and loads more! I would give it 7/10 because if your car has crumbs on it before the wash, mould will start growing on it.

RATING: 7/10

Hello again!

Hello everybody.

It is less than a week until the NPS summer fete (2.00 pm - 4.30 pm), where Eco club will have a stall selling plants, crazy grassheads, a Jumble-Bumble sale and even a chance to buy some of the land on minibeast city!
Please come to the stall because this will help us raise more money for Minibeast City. Thank-you!

Did you know that it is National Insect Week this week? It is trying to teach people more about the insects around us. You can find out more here: http://nationalinsectweek.co.uk/

ECO GADGET REVIEW!

By Theo Binns

Savasocket

The savasocket is an item which, by the click of a button, forces your TV/Xbox/DVD Player off standby! They claim that it can save you £40 a year. However, the savasocket doesn't come with a remote, so you have to already have a remote and connect it up to the little sensor. This is quite tricky, even with the manual. But the two plugs for things that you want on standby, such as a TV recorder is very useful.

Rating: 7/10

Interesting discussions at Eco Club

Hello! We are back. This week in eco club, most of us are making amazing things to sell at the summer fair to raise money for Minibeast City.

We were also having an interesting discussion about how to power things in the future. This video is what started the discussion:

The discussion was about sunflower-oil powered cars, and how good they could be. However, Miss Malone told us that if we took down the whole school and planted sunflowers, we would barely have enough oil to get Mr Croker, our headteacher, half way home. So then we thought how we could have massive fields of sunflowers, but then we thought, 'What about all the power stations in the way?'. We wouldn't be allowed to replaced all the power stations with fields of sunflowers, even if they were used for oil.  So what do we get rid of instead?  Maura realised that that's what they chop down rainforests for!



This is one of the very few sunflower oil powered cars in the world, called the Lotus Exige 265E. This one, however, goes from 0-60 mph in only 3.8 seconds!


Then we thought about the benefits of solar panels.

Imagine if all towns were like this...

By Theo Binns

This week in Eco Club

Hello everyone! This week we have finished writing the letter to the beekeeper to ask him about giving us some bees. We are also applying for a free grant for minibeast city. We are also planning for the summer fair, because we are going to be there. Also, thank-you for everyone who has been donating construction materials, but we still need a bit more - especially pallets!

Have you wondered how exactly the solar panels help the school be more eco friendly?  Then wonder no longer.  Check out our new display in the Upper School Crush hall.

Ok, now let's get on with Environmental news.

ENIVRONMENTAL NEWS - ISSUE #2

Do you remember the Fukushima nucelar plant disaster that happened last year? Well, off the coasts of California, scientists have found Bluefin tuna with radioactive contamination on them. They guess they must have came up from Japan to the coast of California (The way the waves from the tsunami were going). Here is a picture from the BBC website of it:



If you want to find out more click here.

Bug city launch, and some environmental news

AN EXCITING, NEW ENVIRONMENTAL DEVLOPMENT FOR BUGS...

An exciting new bug city is now undergoing development! It will be located in the grass patch by the new staffroom, spare classroom and the Y2 classes. At the side of the page, you can see some of the pictures that gave us ideas. We are going to be raising money for it - stay tuned to find out how you can support or even own a piece of our bug metropolis. 

ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS - ISSUE #1

By Theo
Hello, and welcome to Environmental news. You might have thought all animals were good for the environment, but you were wrong! There is a snake that scientists have found, called the Brown Tree snake, which is affecting the ecosystem. Find out more by clicking here.
Remember to keep checking the eco blog for more updates, and see you next time!

This term in Eco Club

Lucky Lock Returns

Hello Newbridge. Eco Club have decided to start the Lucky Lock again to get you all cycling again. Cycling is important because it gets us fit and helps saves the planet.  Please start cycling to school from Monday 14^th of May. We have lots of new and cool prizes to be won.

Eco Club 

The Big Pedal is underway!!!

After a modest start today and an information session in assembly, we're looking forward to seeing everyone cycling and scooting to school tomorrow, and for the rest of the competition.

Don't forget - parents count too - so get the whole family cycling to school.

And if there's a lock on your bike at the end of the day - don't worry - you haven't been clamped!  Take your bike or scooter to the office where we'll unlock it and give you one of our fantastic prizes. 

These include stickers, bike locks, lights, bells, hi-vis, t-shirts and even a bike helmet!

Visit 

www.thebigpedal.org.uk for more information.

 

The Big Pedal

In eco club we are getting ready for the Big Pedal.

 The Big Pedal is when we will be cycling to school as much as we can for 15 days.  We'll try to get our parents involved too.

Last year there were more than 800 schools competing int his event around Britain. We race against each other to see who can cycle virtually around Britain the fastest.  We are competing with 9 other schools in Bath and North East Somerset.  Do you think we can win?  We need everyone to cycle!

Don't forget our posters competition.  We would like you to design a poster to promote the Big Pedal.  Send your entries to 4m NOW.

Eco club is BACK!

Hello Everybody!
Eco Club is BACK, but now there are more members, and we have bigger ambitions on how to make our school a more eco-friendly place. So far, this is what Eco Club has done to the school so far:

1. Putting up Solar Panels
2. Hosting Green Day
3. Helped made Greenhouse

At first, Eco Club only had 4 members, and now there is more than 15 members!