Pembridge Hall

This year we were invited to participate in Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Walk for Peace. Recognizing the importance of education and communication the Green Girls and the three Year 4 classes created Doves for Peace. While the Year 4s celebrated with a walk in our local park, the Green Team toured London. We met with the Roots & Shoots team, were told all about Jane Goodall’s Mr. H. Junior, and held our Doves high. It was a great day which helped to solidify this year’s new team and helped give the girls a sense of purpose as they were able to share their ideas with those in the community who inevitably stopped to talk.

Being a city school it is often difficult to enjoy the great outdoors so now we have brought a taste of nature to our school. From our garden parties where girls of all ages come together to plant flowers for each of the classes to our new and wonderful garden, Pembridge is simply blooming. With her green thumb Mrs Nagle, our Drama teacher, helped the Green Girls convert a small play area into a delightful oasis. Throughout the year she works with various students growing a variety of food which are then prepared and served during lunch time. We are now able to grow our own food, sit amongst greenery for quiet reading and even have summer picnics!

Many of our parents are equally concerned with being sustainable and protecting our environment. One example of their participation is a new recycling ink cartridges programme that Mrs. Woodruff and her daughter Dora have set up. Now, not only can we recycle our batteries with the help of the Kensington and Chelsea borough but now also all our ink cartridges.

With our interests in reducing and reusing waste, Brookwood gave our Green Girls a wormary of our own. All classes take turns at collecting food scraps from the kitchen and adding them to our compost. After a year, we finally managed to reap the benefits of the compost and received liquid nutrients just in time to aid our new garden.

Brookwood, our school caterers, have worked alongside our Green Team discussing ideas and listening to the students concerns. Together we have come up with reusable lunch bags in hopes of reducing our waste. Our food is bought from sustainable organisations and a booklet has been produced to explain these initiatives to the children and parents.

With so much interest and such great ideas we have expanded our Green Team. We now have girls from Kindergarten to Year 6 meeting weekly to work on making our school eco-friendly and to discuss conservation and environmental topics. Girls from Kindegarten to Year 3 work together or learning about nature and the importance of looking after it while girls from Year 4 to Year 6 are divided into two camps; one working on our Pembridge Missions and the other on Roots & Shoots. Together girls report to their classes weekly on all we have learnt and the initiatives we hope to achieve. To increase our team identity girls designed a ‘Green Logo’ and voted on it. Now we not only have …

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Hello Ecowarriors!

I have thought of a great activity. Basically we could have a jumble sale (this is a sale that sells anything!) and the money we raise could go towards something ecological, for instance maybe we could donate the money raised towards sustainable forests.

Let me know your thoughts,

Agent Scarlett xx

Hello fellow eco-warriors!

I have read the brief on Misson Ice World – basically we have to try and save Scotland from freezing over otherwise in the future it will be derserted and completely frozen. We can stop this from happening by stopping Global Warming happening.

Please reply ASAP. Every idea is needed!

Agent Scarlett