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

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.

Contents Page 1 – Eco Council and Gardening ClubPage 1 – Eco Council and Gardening Club Page 2 – PaperPage 2 – Paper Page 3 – CompostingPage 3 – Composting Page 4 – Growing Vegetables and PlantsPage 4 – Growing Vegetables and Plants Page 5 – AwardsPage 5 – Awards Page 6 – FundraisingPage 6 – Fundraising Page 7 – Helping The WildlifePage 7 – Helping The Wildlife Page 8 – Education for a Greener FuturePage 8 – Education for a Greener Future Page 9 – A Thank You from Carr Head Primary SchoolPage 9 – A Thank You from Carr Head Primary School

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 disco’s to raise money. Games such as: How Many Pine Cones In The Tub.

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.

Education for a Greener Future  Year 5 did a Waste Audit in October 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.

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.

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