Puddletown First School Your World My World Our World

Out and About This area was unused and looked very boring By building a pond and putting in plants and different habitats we have attracted lots of wildlife that we can study. Wildlife pond area

Tadpole spotting! Although very new, the pond has become home to many species of planet and animal.

Nurturing nature As well as this log pile we have a stone pile and a bark covered area in which all sorts of organisms thrive.

Saving the planet Lots of us cycle or scoot to school Collecting rainwater to water our fruit and vegetables All our fruit and vegetable peelings are composted The Year Four Ambassadors collect the paper for recycling every Friday

Energy Efficiency We held a competition To design the best poster Reminding us to turn out the lights The winners are displayed around the school

Edible playground Raised beds We grew strawberries, beans, beetroot, lettuce, sweetcorn, carrots, and much more.

Tending and sampling We planted, watered, weeded and eventually ate our produce. It was all delicious.

Scarecrows Reception recycled their old clothes, making scarecrows to frighten the birds from the edible garden.

Fairtrade Waitrose donated a selection of Fairtrade food from around the world. Year Four set up a stall in the playground (making hot chocolate from the Fairtrade cocoa and sugar) and everyone had a tasting session. Yumm! We learnt that there are 3000 Fairtrade products from fruit to footballs.

Our Links with SDA Primary School Tafo Ghana Our two schools have joined together to sing a song in Twi and English and Humphrey has produced a film of us both. We continue to enjoy learning about each others lives and cultures.. Our envoy between the two schools Puddletown Bear They have shown us the cocoa plants growing in their village

Chocolate Facts In Britain we eat 16Kg of chocolate each, every year! 2 million Ghanaian farmers grow chocolate. By buying Fairtrade chocolate we can help our friends in Ghana to get a decent price for their cocoa.

School Council We have all worked hard to improve our outside environment. The school council takes ideas from each class and discusses them. Enabling many of the ideas to be implemented.

Outside Environment Parents shelter An area within the playground to be calm and quiet Wildlife area named by one of our pupils A safe place for our two wheeled transport School/Community Notice board

What shall we call it? We ran a competition to name two of our newly refurbished outside areas. The quiet area was renamed the ‘Zip it Zone’. And the nature area, ‘Butterfly Bus stop’.

Playground Tubs

Impressive Improvement This area was hardly used and looked untidy. Now we have this play trail which we all love to use. Unbelievably, this was a tatty swimming pool! Now it has been transformed. The addition of this shelter has enabled Reception to extend their classroom activities outside, even when it is raining.

Inside School Our library carpet Hall Display Healthy eating display One of many posters

Rights and Responsibilities Each class made a banner to represent a right. This is Education and Play. We made our own Rights and Responsibilities for lunchtimes. These are Year Fours. A display we took to the DASP Voice Works concert. The United Nations Rights for Children are displayed throughout school. Inside and out.

Whole School Recycling March We all made banners and flags encouraging us all to recycle. We spread the word throughout Puddletown ! Arts Week 2009

Recycling song to the tune of Drunken Sailor What can we do to save our planet? x3 All day every day Reuse and recycle What shall we do with our old glass bottles? Bottle bank and recycle. What shall we do with our carrot peelings? Compost heap and recycle How shall we get to school in the morning? Scoot to school no cars needed. What shall we do with our lights left on? Switch them off save the power Composed during Arts Week

Healthy Eating Learning about what is good for us and where our food comes from We have had several cook and eat days when the whole school has contributed to cooking a healthy lunch. We have then all joined together at lunchtime to enjoy our delicious food and each others company. Some of the produce we have grown ourselves!

Book Bonanza Recycling Cookery Multicultural community feelings Energy Saving gardening Rights and Responsibilities Stand Up, Speak Out World Resources water You and Me

Thinking of Others It’s about justice and solidarity not pity Every year the children bring in shoe boxes full of gifts which are sent to children who won’t be as lucky at Christmas. Children in Need bring a bear to school. Operation Christmas Child

Christmas Cards Instead of sending each other Christmas cards we have been encouraged to donate what we would have spent on cards to Oxfam Unwrapped. So far we have bought goats, cows, seeds, tools, paid teachers salaries and bought books for schools in areas of poverty. And think of all the paper we saved as well!

Comic Relief We raised over £ We did something funny for money Helping tackle a wide variety of problems that poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable people face across the world.

All Of This helps us consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of the decisions that we make on the local and global community, in the future as well as now. We can all make a difference