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Month: January 2017

Ice play with a special message

The children were enjoying finding and playing with ice, outside in our garden, on our allotment onion beds and on the pond. Huge chunks were held, looked through, broken up and discussed as every piece was different and then started to melt. I set up a small world tray with different size ice cubes and […]

University of Salford’s Chairpersons Achievements

The University of Salford’s Wildlife Society (USWS) has accomplished tremendous achievements in the past 6 months. As chairperson, Lauren (known to all as Lori) has been the driving factor behind this success. Lori is always eager to seek opportunities to help communities, especially in an environmentally-orientated manner. This is important to her as it supports […]

Chowbent Primary School Exciting Update

Chowbent Primary School has been very busy in the last couple of year. This is what they’ve achieved Aesthetics Completed by the school’s Eco Council. Over the last few years to make our school more inviting we got together and set up a gardening club. We met each week and planned different activities such as […]

Plastic Free Week follow up

So …. 2 months on from plastic free week , what have I done to cut down my plastic ? Well – I ALWAYS use my ‘bags for life’ when shopping…. And quite a few of my friends were given a ‘bag for life’ for Christmas. I now try and use ‘Ecover’ products, and if […]

Exciting enterprise in Primary 3

Primary 3 have been learning all about Malawi. They have been looking at what it’s like to go to school in Malawi, the local foods, clothes and making comparisons with living in Scotland. They were really interested to see that some of the classrooms in Malawi are outside and that they don’t always have electricity. […]

What Gives You Hope?

The Fair Trade Group created a display this week based on ‘hope’. They asked a number of students to write down their answer to what gives them hope on a sticky label. This sticky label was then added onto a large dove, which was hand drawn my Rifat from the Fair Trade Group. It was […]

Eco-Roadshow Invitation!

Sir Jonathan North has been asked to run one of the Eco-roadshow events during Fairtrade Fortnight by Lee Jowett, the Environment Education Coordinator from the Leicester City Council; “I know Sir Jonathan North have a really strong presence on Fairtrade and wondered if you would be willing to host a roadshow during this time.” The […]