Eco School

Cwrt Rawlin Primary

In the Eco Committee we do lots of things to help people learn about the environment. The eco committee don't just tell people about it though; we actually act to help it!
We have already started to make and put up posters telling people to recycle their fruit peelings and waste so that we can compost them to help the environment. We have also been collecting dead and rotten wood to go in the wild area at the back of our school to encourage all sorts of wildlife from worms to lizards and birds. We asked Ceri Gale, a ranger from Caerphilly Countryside services to help us and he delivered some fossilised bog wood and explained that it will make brilliant habitats for beetles, centipedes, wood lice, wood mice and even slow worms.
In January we advertised for new Eco Members and had lots of replies form children all over the school. After discussing it for a long time we decided to offer the chance to be on the Eco Committee to Angharad Smith (Year 5) and Joel Griffin (2L). Joel has already been working with Ben and Mr Morris to take meter readings for gas, electricity and water and Angharad has been helping out with collecting the Yellow Pages. This year we managed to collect almost 400 copies!

Here are some of the other things we do as an Eco School:

Water saving taps in toilets.
Energy efficient lights.
Recycling paper in every class.
Eco day in March 2007.
Valuing Diversity Day.
Healthy Eating Day.
Annual Brecon to Cardiff bike ride.
Motion sensors to reduce energy wasted from lights.
Gardening and Environment club started in Autumn 2007.
Jump Rope day to promote exercise.
Anti Bullying Day.
Adventure play area in junior and infant yard.
Bird boxes have been put up around school.
Fruit waste composting.
Annual walk, cycle or scooter to school weeks.
Looking after the willow shelters.
Encourage new Eco Committee members (Adult and children).
Regular litter picks from Year 4 children (the Litter Club)
New Eco Code presented to each class in 2008.
Dead wood has been placed in Eco Area to encourage wildlife.

Here are some of the things we want to do this term:

Raise awareness of poverty in developing countries.
Bike ride for Year 6 pupils along the Taff Trail.
Annual Brecon to Cardiff bike ride.
Encourage bats to our school through building bat boxes.
Continue to tend the willow shelters.
Encourage insects by building bug homes.
Find out exactly how much fruit waste is being composted.
Learn more about the wildlife on our doorstep with Ceri Gale (Countryside Ranger)
Eco Day 2008

Things we want to do in the future:

School allotment.
Develop a wildlife pond / nature reserve.
Try to become a Fair Trade school.

Our Eco School Code

Year 5
Megan Barrell
Angharad Smith
Tristan Wharf