action plan presentation october 2012

Green Council

Action Plan 2012/13

Over the coming year the Green council plan to achieve the following:- but we need your help and support for them to be fully successful.

Every year is important at Hawes Side but this year we also need to renew our Green Flag.

Ask children in our classes to use the Green council

Blog more.

Ask children in our classes to make more use of the

suggestion boxes in school.

Develop the Green Council Blog to include more resources and

ideas for use by teachers, children and our parents at

home.

Mr Livesey and the council will run a second sustainability conference for all primary schools in Blackpool in June next year sharing what we have learnt with the community.

To organise a community litter

pick, or help tidy a community garden.

Increase the variety of

plants in the school

gardens.

Increase the variety of wildlife habitats in

school.

To purchase a greenhouse to

extend the growing season.

Improve provision for

birds – feeding and

nesting.

Create information pages about the

plants we grow and have in school

Involve more children and parents in gardening

Learn about different methods

of energy production in class.

TO APPOINT POWER RANGERS

TO PROMOTE ENERGY SAVING!

We need to get back in the habit of Switching off lights

and appliances when not needed.

Take part in Switch off Fortnight

2012

To organise regular litter picks and also conduct a BIG TIDY

UP in April

Use the school respect token

system to reward good

behaviour – ie people using the litter bins

Design posters to encourage others to not drop litter.

To launch the walk to school scheme which compliments our Golden Boot Challenge. uses the which rewards children and classes for sustainable

travel to school.

To encourage more children to cycle or scooter to school.

To reduce the amount of materials consumed by school

especially paper.To reduce the amount of waste

produced by school . Increase the amount of recycling that goes on in school. More about that in a minute!

To reduce the amount of water

consumed by school.

To build on our links with international schools in China,

Europe and Africa to discuss global

environmental issues and actions.

To become a Fair trade School.

Children to learn and understand about global

environmental issues and how all our actions

count. To understand the global view.

With support of the School council and

healthy school group promote

healthy lifestyle in school

Increase the number of green plants in school

NOW BACK TO

RECYCLING

Recycling the following things with school can raise

Some serious Money for Green Council

Projects.

No we haven’t gone crazy! These things will raise money for the Green Council

Take tooth brushes and toothpaste tubes for example.

Most of you will use at least 8 of these a year!

In most homes there are at least 3 people.

So that’s 24 per family.

We have over 550 families in this school.

So that would be 13,200 per year.

School gets 2p per brush or tube.This would make £264 .EASY!

Take any McVities biscuit wrappers.

Most families have at least 1 packet a week.

There are 52 weeks in a year

We have over 550 families in this school.

So that would be 28600 per year.

School gets 2p per brush or tube.This would make £572 .EASY!

It is the same for each of these other pieces of waste.

Our target

is 10,000 units!

Thank you for listeningwe hope you now have a better idea of what the

Green Council would like to achieve this year. For more information on how we are going to do these things,

why not check out the Green Council Blog!