St. Luke’s Science & Sports College – Mission Update!
What a busy but productive few months we have had!
- In school we raised £2169 for Haiti and donated this to Shelterbox.
- Our links with the Congo continue as we support the development of a school and the empowerment of the children as they are able to access knowledge.
- Students in English wrote to Nestle and as a direct result Nestle switched to Fair Trade Sources.
- Visiting medics came into school and gave a very informative lecture about Madagascar including its environmental issues and the project work on health and contraception.
- Two members of staff went to Nigeria and we are now forming active links across the curriculum.
- Within the college we have planted up four raised beds with vegetables, herbs and soft fruits. In addition to that we have planted a small orchard including apple, pear, plum and wild cherry trees. Produce from these areas will go to our local Food Bank scheme.
- We teamed up with Devon Wildlife Trust in a new project to establish Wildlife Corridors across Exeter. All of our year 7 took part and looked at the wildlife we have, built three bug towers, made and hung up bird feeders and nest boxes and planted more wild flowers around our pond area and bog area. We have also started work on developing a wild flower bank and planting wild flowers amongst our crops.
- We are busy composting and now collect the fruit left overs at break times and all the fruit and vegetable waste from Food Technology.
- We recently signed up to a new sow and grow scheme and as one of the first schools to apply won a tonne of compost!
- During Science week our Green Team ran assemblies all week on global bio-diversity and how we are increasing the habitats and bio-diversity in our own school. Mr H played an active role and the importance of caring globally was reinforced with the key note that every little action, no matter how small , gives hope and therefore a ‘Reason to Hope’ for everybodys’ future and the future of their planet.
Posted on March 28th, 2010 by Agent Diamond
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Congratulations on such a varied and impressive series of successes! Your fundraising efforts are outstanding and even the unexpected results such as your tonne of compost sound marvellous!
Your links with children in the Congo are particularly interesting – do you have any correspondences with them about their impressions of the developments that could be the topic a future article?
We also look forward to seeing the results of your raised flower beds and the orchard when they begin to bloom – please do take some pictures and remember they could earn you a Roots & Shoots Photographic Award!
Comment posted on April 19th, 2010 at 4:43 amI will follow up the Congo link to see if we get some interactive feedback.
Comment posted on April 20th, 2010 at 2:28 pmWe have now signed up to BEAGLE and are monitoring local trees. We are also actively pursuing incorporating our environmental work into our Asdan programme of studies.
Today, 20 April, our Green Team received an Acorn Award from our local Green Team sponsors and organisers. They received a plaque, a ten year old oak and £150 for their gardening projects. Of course Mr H was there and managed to muscle in on the photos!
We also have about 90 electricity monitors which students and staff are going to take home as part of a larger project on how to save electricity at home.
I am the joint eco-chairwoman. I love being part of the green team, as it’s great fun. We do so many things. I will stay involved with the club even when I leave school.
Comment posted on October 18th, 2011 at 1:31 pmRoots n Shoots is great, and we will soon be making a song about it, so keep checking back and we will let you all know when it is done!!
HHIS I shloud have thought of that!
Comment posted on December 21st, 2011 at 12:56 pm