Our Green Team Ambassadors have been busy planning for Walk to School Week.

They have launched the event in assembly, inspiring all pupils to take part in the event. They discussed the benefits of walking to school for to improve their mental and physical health, local environment and the planet.

Our children are looking forward to taking part and making a positive contribution to help reduce pollution. Whilst exercising to feel happier and healthier!

This is an event for everyone in the family. Don’t forget to complete your child’s weekly diary and get walking, cycling or scooter!

Climate Change Ambassadors met with our Green Team. They discussed and shared ideas to develop our school grounds to help inform our climate action plan.

The Green Team created drawings with their ideas. They included suggestions our grounds to be used for growing vegetables, plants, trees, wildflowers, micro habitats and water buts  and much more. We look forward to meeting with Climate Ambassadors next term.

The Green Team are currently leading us in helping to reduce our carbon footprint this month by being part of the ‘Cut Your Carbon’ campaign.  All children have taken home a sheet to complete six activities to reduce carbon over the month of November.  We are also leading the school in ‘Switch off Fortnight’.  Every week over the next month the Green Team will be working with our site manager to take meter readings of energy used in school and see if everyone across school is remembering to switch off lights and electronic devices when not in use.  At the end of the month we will hopefully see a reduction in the energy our school has used, and smaller energy bills….watch this space!!!

“This is our last visit as part of this project, and we have loved every minute. The behaviour and interest from the pupils have been excellent throughout and they have been a pleasure to work with. It’s so lovely when they come back week after week, keen to get involved, spotting insects, frogs and snails, tasting herbs and lettuces and really enjoying the experience. The group of parents have been invaluable and we hope, with their help we have set you up for a wildlife friendly school.”

Many thanks Andy Beth and Cain

Another super afternoon with pupils and parents. Today we weeded and prepared the planting beds in the Early Years playground. With the help of the pupils and staff we have planted herbs and flowers that are good for wildlife and tasting! The children love watering with the hosepipe!

We completed the bamboo screening and weeded in the allotment- lots of lettuces are ready to pick!

Today our pupils helped to create our ‘Beebay’ with a variety of habitats for wildlife to enjoy.

The children also planted shrubs to create a green wall on our school grounds.

Our horticulturalists were very impressed with their collaboration, resilience and care for nature.

Today are Green Team and pupils, staff, parents and horticulturalist Andy worked on the school allotment. Pathways were cleared, bark chip cleared to reduce weeds and enable access. They planted vegetables, salad and herbs plants to provide food for our pupils eat. They also started to restore the pond to promote biodiversity and a home for frogs. Our pupils loved meeting the frogs!

We were absolutely proud and privileged to be part of the ‘Running out Of Time’ event that is currently happening nationally across Britain, to raise awareness of climate change and bring communities together.  The children showcased some of the work they have been and are currently involved in, addressing environmental issues and looking after our world.  Our Green Team led the way by taking the baton on the race around our school field; a baton which contains a message that will be presented to our government when it arrives in London. We were also joined by local councillors and our local MP Lillian Greenwood, making this a real community event. This has provided the children to be part of a unique opportunity, raising awareness of climate change which will continue to affect our citizens of the future.

We are very proud to be part of this years ‘Eat Them to Defeat Them’ national campaign to encourage children to eat more vegetables, being led in school by our Green Team.  We have enjoyed decorating vegetables, making hats and badges and tasting vegetables. Children have completed mission packs at home as they defeat the vegetables by eating them.  Last week’s mission was to defeat carrots, this week the children will be defeating peppers, let’s get defeating those vegetables!

Southwold Primary were proud to help promote awareness of plastic pollution in our oceans. The work children created reusing plastic bottles formed part of a display at the Green Hustle Festival in Nottingham Market Square.

As part of the Green Hustle Festival today children made turtles and jellyfish by recycling plastic bottles. Our school Green Team led the project and enjoyed the story ‘The Whale who disappeared’ by Emma Websdale. We look forward to our work being part of the festival. 

Our school Green Team are continuing our work as part of Wastebusters  to reduce waste in school, monitoring how much food is wasted at lunchtime, encouraging peers not to waste food and giving lunchtime stickers for empty plates

This week, the Green Team prepared their classes for Waste Week. Green Team Leaders, led and discussed the importance of not wasting food and why we need to recycle.  Using compost bins, which they created during Recycle Week last September, the pupils planted their own Begonia bulb. They also created posters to inform and persuade readers to not waste food.

Our pupils demonstrated a sound understanding and awareness of why we need to help protect and save our planet.