Our achievements so far

All information is presented on www.stlouismiddleschool.com

2. Review

1. Eco Committee …SC

3.Action Plan

4.Monitoring

5.Curriculum Work6.Informing &

Involvingthe school community

7.Eco -Code

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Lets watch the video

The Eco-CommitteeWe meet every weekFriday 1.45pm to

2.15pm, PrimaryMonday 1.30pm to

2.15pm, Middle School

Adult committee members are

School DirectorLucia   VescoviDeputy HeadsNatasha Croad, Gerry

Rafferty, Sarah Revell

Eco Architect/PABDonatella Ricchiuti Caretaker Paolo Castelli Student Council

coord Sarah  RamsayStudent Council coord

Christina GianandreaLoca Administration,

Stefano PiccardiRecycling Bins local

admin Maria Caruso School cleaner Maria

The Primary Section of the Eco-Committee

The Middle School Section of the Eco-Committee

We have an Eco-notice boardThe 7 steps

Information about Eco School

Our meetings are at lunch

Great decisions are made over a plate of pasta!

ReviewWe started with an audit of the school and

how Eco-Friendly we already were, we recorded results and put them on our website

Students from the School Council completed the audit.

Action Plan

The action plan shows all the things we want to achieve and how we plan to do it. Each time something is achieved we update it

Full plan on website

Monitoring

To get us started, a local Eco-Architect helped us audit the school‘s electricity use.

• With her architectural drawings of the school we were able to monitor how much electricity we used.

Monitoring

We placed a record sheet like this in every single room in the school every week for a month.

Electricity monitoringWe checked whether lights and other electrical things were on or off

We recorded the results

Electricity MonitoringThe results

were put into an Excel document for each floor of the school.

Our Environmental Review

From this we were able to calculate how much electricity we use in the school each week.

The calculations were carried out using Microsoft Excel

The results were recorded on the school plan

...planted new trees when others had to be cut down

...renovated the Eco Mud Hut

Outside school we...

...look after our pond area

...care for our nature area, we’re growing pumpkins

...have litter monitors

Inside school we... ...recycle paper

... save water from being wasted

We also...recycle all of our food waste

And have plants inside school as well as outside

What else are we doing?We have student

monitors to prevent litter dropping

Water monitors to check taps are turned off

We recycle as much as possible

We plan eco-work into our curriculum, planning samples on next slide

Year 2 English PlanningYear 7 Science Planning

We publicised the Eco Schools project to the whole school, with assemblies.

Our School Open Day was on World Earth Day so we made our Eco Podcast

This was our very first Podcast, please listen on our website

We have made moviessee website

Community1.We involved the community in the project by

allowing our ideas to infiltrate the neighbourhood around us.

2.We used podcast/website and neighbourhood visits to develop community recognition without use of paper

www.stlouismiddleschool.com 3.Unique Industrial link to a firm of eco

architects...[Director Donatella Wallnofer] that will take our monitoring surveys and look at developing in the near future an eco friendly newly designed school in our community

4.We measured traffic level noise near our school by adopting microphones

Community5.We asked staff to cycle to work to develop community

spirit...Deputy Head and Head of performing arts and

numerous teachers took up challenge6.Open Day design of trees made from recycled

material AUCTIONED to our internal and external community for charity

7.The world community was alerted using our website [here] that shows at least 30 countries were interested in our venture.

8. EcoSports Day9.We issue an open invitation to Head of Eco-Italy to

our Eco sports Day

Eco-code

We had a competition to find the best Eco-Code poem, using an acrostic poem with ST LOUIS SCHOOL as the starting letters

Our Eco-CodeS Sing along to the St Louis tuneT Turn off the lights when you leave the roomL Let others take up the St Louis causeO Others, make them aware of our new green

lawsU Us, we are an Eco School, so let’s start now,I It will soon succeed, we tell you nowS So these are the points to show you howS Stop wasting paper and killing treesC Cans and bottles, don’t forget them pleaseH Heaters aren’t needed when it’s a sunny

dayO Only open the windows, starting from MayO Open your eyes, see what you’ve doneL Let’s leave the world full of fun

What’s next?We will re-monitor electricity use and see if we have reduced the electricity bills

Look into methods of making the school heating more eco-friendly

We will keep doing all of the things we have started doing this year

We will keep asking advice from eco schools

Hopefully with a Green Flag flying over the school...