The Pod

Coming soon, on Saturday 24th March we have our family gardening morning where we are aiming at developing a new herb area, butterfly plant / garden area, more water saving features and lots of weeding and planting in preparation for the summer.  We also...

The results of our weekly audit are in....KS1 waste over 5 days - 8.226kg.KS2 waste over 5 days - 12.108kgTotal waste - 20.334kgThat's a lot of waste!  It was also noticed that food waste was lower on the day that chips appeared on the menu!Now to our...

We are loving weighing the food waste for our audit this week as you can tell from the picture of Isabella!

We have our visit booked - the assessor will come to see our Eco-friendly school straight after Easter!

Just downloaded the Lunchtime Crunchtime activity pack ready to get our Waste Week plans underway!

We are hoping to renew our Green Flag in the next week or two.  We have much to add - new energy monitor (so that we can check on our energy use), a weather station, a pond, more hedging and new vegetable gardens, to mention just a few things...

Quite a few of us think that wind energy is a good idea.  Last year's Eco Councillors have started the activity Will Wind Work.  You can see what they have been doing by looking at their blog on that activity.  They are finding it very interesting.

We had a fabulous energy afternoon where children were in mixed groups and had to come up with an attention getting way of promoting an energy resource.  Some groups had the challenge of energy sources such as nuclear and coal and gas!  We voted at...

We grew some very tasty blueberries, raspberries and strawberries and our rhubarb was fantastic!

We've had a really successful growing season!  Our butcher sold lots of our veg during the holidays and we were still providing our school kitchen with potatoes and peppers up until half term!