Green School

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Green School

• Click On The School Logo To Enter Or The Exit
  Sign To End The Show

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An Introduction

• Welcome to Carr Head Primary School, the greenest
  school for miles around! We would like you to
  read our entry for the How Green Is Your School?
  competition. We hope you like it. Thank you, from
  year six at Carr Head Primary School.
• Click the megaphone to hear the head teacher's
  views on Green Schools.

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Contents

• Page 1 Eco Council and Gardening Club
• Page 2 Paper
• Page 3 Composting
• Page 4 Growing Vegetables and Plants
• Page 5 Awards
• Page 6 Fundraising
• Page 7 Helping The Wildlife
• Page 8 Education for a Greener Future
• Page 9 A Thank You from Carr Head Primary
  School

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Eco Council and Gardening Club

• Our Eco-Council meet every half term to discuss
  green issues around the school and put forward
  ideas to help the environment.
• They work in partnership with the gardening club
  who help make the school grounds a better place
  by picking up litter and planting trees and
  shrubs around the grounds.
• Click on the picture of the garden to start the
  movie. You can also click the megaphone to hear a
  sound bite from our Eco Representatives.

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Paper

• We try our best to recycle as much paper as
  possible. We use both sides of a piece of paper
  before throwing it in the BLUE bin. We take off
  the sticky part of an envelope before putting it
  in the recycling.

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Composting

• We have three compost bins in our school grounds.
  We put fruit and vegetable peelings in them and
  empty the fruit caddy regularly. We then use the
  compost to help grow our plants and flowers in.
• Click on the picture to start the Composting
  Movie.

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Growing Vegetables and Plants

• Every junior class has a flowerbed full of
  vegetables like beetroot, carrot, green beans and
  cucumber. We water them regularly.
• Click on the picture to begin the Watering Movie.

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Awards

• Carr Head Primary School have earned several Eco
  Awards including the Bronze and Silver and we are
  aiming for the Green Flag Award which will mark
  us as a top eco-friendly school.

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Fundraising

• We do a lot of fundraising for plants and
  environmentally helpful things in our grounds.
  One fundraiser we had was where everybody could
  come dressed as a fairy, elf or mortal wearing
  green and had to pay 1. We raised 180!

WOW!
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Fundraising

• We have received several grants from wildlife
  companies such as The Green Partnerships Award.
  We got 500 to help us towards wildlife friendly
  items. We have events at fair's and discos to
  raise money. Games such as How Many Pine Cones
  In The Tub.

WILDLIFE
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Helping The Wildlife

• In our school we have several bird boxes and
  feeders because we believe that animals are just
  as important as people and that we should help
  them. We also have a wildlife garden as we
  mentioned earlier on in the presentation. If you
  would like to watch the Wildlife Garden film
  again go back to the contents and select Growing
  Vegetables and Plants.

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Education for a Greener Future

• Year 5 did a Waste Audit in October 2007. The
  amount of waste the school carried was
  unbelievably high. In October this year the soon
  to be Year Sixes will carry out a Waste Audit
  again to discover the change in waste amount.
  Every Wednesday we carry out Waste Watchers
  Wednesday, which involves weighing our waste
  packaging at lunchtime and trying to decrease the
  amount of waste each week.

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Wildlife Trust

• In the Autumn Term somebody from The Wildlife
  Trust came on a visit to the school and gave us a
  fun lesson on recycling. We learnt about all the
  rubbish dumps around the country and why people
  living nearby them will be internally affected by
  the decomposition of the waste.

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Carr Head Primary School

• Thank You For Looking At Our Entry For
• The Gazettes
• How Green Is Your School? Competition
• From Year 6 at Carr Head Primary School