Childrens Zone: Green Team

PLEA FROM THE GREEN TEAM

Please could you log on to www.generationgreen.co.uk and complete an Energy Saver's report. Each time someone does this, nominating our school first, we will receive 100 leaves towards our Generation Green target of 37,000 leaves. This is not a sales gimmick and only you sees the results. It could help you save money too! It doesn't take long to do. Many thanks.

JULY 2008 - We became the first school in the UK to receive gold from the Woodland Trust Green Tree Schools Award. This has come about through recycling, planting and reducing CO2 emissions.

This is Karen Letten from The Woodland Trust presenting The Green Team with our Gold award.

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The Green Team is made up of a representative from each KS2 class. We are children who are interested in environmental issues which particularly affect the school. We meet once a month to discuss issues, make suggestions, start campaigns and raise awareness of green issues.

Scroll down for photos of our activities.

We have been awarded our third green Eco flag in 2009.

Because of our achievements, we were asked by Robert Smythe secondary school, in Market Harborough, to create an assembly for 400 pupils there to inform them of how we got our flag. They want to be the first secondary school in the district to get one!

We have led the Recycling Pledges campaign within school

which earned us points to buy musical instruments with.

The person who collected the most pledges won an MP3 player!

We enjoy raising awareness about ecological issues and in support of the WWFs campaign to Save The Tiger, we had a tiger day when we came to school dressed as cats, did lots of work about the tiger, India and why some species become endangered. We raised 300pounds and had a fabulous day. Year 5 (2008) adopted a Black Rhino through the WWF and will continue raising money to support it while they are in Year 6.

We collect printer cartridges for recycling and the money we make is used to buy items for the school grounds. We have already purchased a series of wildlife habitat boxes, a feeding station and a bird-bath.

We also recycle old mobile phones and the money goes to a Cystic Fibrosis charity.

We are a Healthy School and at break, the fruit waste is collected and composted in a bin by the allotment. The vegetables are watered with rainwater collected in the water butts.

We have a greenhouse for growing projects.

We helped to plant a willow maze on the school field in 2004. We re-weave it every year to strengthen it.

We have a beautiful nature area that has a wooden bridge over a blue gravel stream.
We grow fruit here and the nature trail takes you around the bushes and trees. There is a canopied bandstand here where we sit for a story on a hot day! We have a wild area near to the pond too. There is a hedgehogs hibernation box here. This is all overlooked by tall trees with nesting boxes in them.

We reuse and recycle as much paper as we can
in school.

Old coloured paper on display boards is still good
enough for craft.

Even the shredded documents make great bedding for our guinea pigs!

Market Harborough is now a FAIRTRADE town and we do our bit too. Every child who brings in a FAIRTRADE wrapper receives two merits and we have a huge display to show all the products that we have sampled. A farmer from Chile came to tell us about how she produces FAIRTRADE honey and the difference FAIRTRADE has made to her life. See our Fairtrade page to see how we became the first Fairtrade school in Market Harborough.

ECO-TOWN PROPOSALS

Find out what some of our children thought about the Eco-town proposals in June 2008! This was recorded and broadcast on Radio Leicester.

Carrier bags Eco-board June 08 Cragrats Recycling Roadshow

Reduce Your Eggcessive Waste this Easter. The A-Z of recycling tips.

Making the Eco-Warriors float From milk carton to Easter Bunny Basket.

Our new recycling boxes for around school. Save the Albatross campaign.

From Seeds to Trees (Woodland Trust). Packing printer cartridges to recycle.

March 2008

Daniel H in Year 3 has won the County Council competition to design a poster for a bus to encourage people to 'Reduce Your Egg-cessive Waste This Easter'. He has been presented with some lovely prizes and the school has received 200 pounds of ESPO vouchers.