Script for our assembly on Tuesday 4^th October

The new school eco committee have made a start at earning the Green Flag award. We had to conduct an audit of what we are doing currently in school and what we need to do next. 

We have created a section on our school website where you can meet all of the members and see the minutes from each meeting. New things will be added to show the progress we are making to the Green Flag Award.

We have produced posters to encourage better use of our lights and these can be seen around school. We have also written a laminating policy so that we only laminate when we really need to, so that paper can be recycled rather than ending up in landfill as plastic.

We also have lots of plans to improve our school grounds, including building a bug house and planting vegetables that can be cooked in the school kitchen.

Mrs Bullen and Sophia from Year 5 are now going to introduce an eco-competition.

Assembly script 21.11.22

 So firstly, we are making progress towards our Green Flag Award and to do that, on Friday as a group, Eco Committee took part in a litter pick around Lilleshall and registered for The Keep Britain Tidy Big School Clean competition. We managed to pick up a staggering count of 663 pieces of litter on our walk!

We have made contact with Dobbies Garden Centre and hopefully we will receive a small donation of bulbs for our field to create a more attractive and green environment for our school.

On Friday, we also split into groups to make reusable wax wraps for the school Christmas fayre. These are a great alternative to using plastic food bags to hold food like sandwiches. They are reusable and really help the environment by reducing single use plastic.

Assembly script 30.1.23

We began our Eco committee day on Friday taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch. We spotted blackbirds, house sparrows, collard doves, blue tits, crows, chaffinches, magpies and wood pigeons.

Then, we were visited by Robert, the owner of Lilyhurst garden centre. He advised us on the planets we need to improve the environment and to attract wildlife in our school grounds. These included: liquid amber, nepeta, thyme, autumn raspberries, a twisted hazel, cotton lavender and a creeping conifer. We then went to the garden centre to buy the plants which we will plant around school this week. You will also see bird feeders hanging around school very soon.

In the afternoon, we visited Granville Nature Reserve for an exciting wildlife  workshop run by Katherine from Shropshire Wildlife Trust. We had a great time bug hunting and finding answers to nature questions, for example, Can you find a twig shaped like a Y?

There are also now energy monitors. These are OK and EB. We will check around school every lunch time and check to see if there is energy being wasted, for example, if room has lights on when no one is in the room we will turn of the lights in the room to save electricity.  We will also make a note of where energy is being wasted.

The litter monitors are MP and BJ. They will check the playground every day to make sure it is litter free. This will make our school grounds more appealing to wildlife.