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For the first time we’ve had such a hard time deciding on a single winner that we’ve awarded TWO Gold Awards! We were so impressed with the scope, dedication and initiative shown in the projects by Ringwood School and the Highlands & Islands Home Facilitator Team that we have decided to award them both Gold Awards. We hope you will find reading about their winning projects as inspiring as we did!

Ringwood School’s One World Project

Starting Small In The Highlands & Islands

Congratulations also to our well-deserving Silver Award winners, Fearnhill School and Coleshill CofE Infants’ School, and our Bronze Award winners, Pembridge Hall School, Webster’s High School and Southridge First School.

Due to the continued high standard …

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What are the awards?
At the end of each school term, the team at Roots & Shoots will be reviewing the Mission Updates and Mission Updates that member schools have been posting about their Roots & Shoots activities. We then give bronze, silver and gold awards to the best projects to commend your hard work. This year, we have introduced two new additional awards categories, The Jane Goodall Award for Individual Endeavour, and Best Photographic Entry.
How do I submit a project entry, has anything changed?
To submit a project for consideration, simply log-in to the Roots & Shoots website and post a story for your school. You can post as many project updates as you wish! You can …

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After the Roots & Shoots Annual Awards 2009 held in December, here is what our visiting members had to say:

“I would like to thank you for the invitation to the Jane Goodall Institute on Monday. Visiting you was a major and special event as you had recognized the valuable work that our “Afri-Twin” project had and continues to carry out.
Mixing with other groups and seeing how their various projects were run, has given us ideas about some aspects of our project as well as furthering “Environmental Awareness” which we will pass on to our school and our African Twin. We hope in time that overseas projects will have the opportunity to visit London to celebrate their success.”
- Patricia …

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As part of Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots programme, schools from across the UK were invited to Regent’s Park, London this week to take part in a prestigious Awards ceremony in the presence of Dr Jane Goodall and Livia Firth.

The event took place at the Zoological Society of London’s headquarters – a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats and where Dr Jane saw her first chimpanzee.

Students prepared creative showcases of their contribution in the area of people, animals and the environment and described to Dr. Goodall and the other participants and guests what they had achieved, why it was important and how they would …

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After some tough decision-making we are pleased to announce the following finalists for the Roots & Shoots Awards 2009:

ACS Hillingdon International School
Project: Eco Friendly Week at ACS Hillingdon
Penryn College, Cornwall
Project: Environmental Leaders at Penryn College
Queen Elizabeth II High School, Isle of Man
Project: tREe’Cycle’ at Queen Elizabeth II High School

Holland Park School, London
Project: Re:cycled 2009 @ Holland Park School
Rogerstone Primary School, Newport
Project: Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship

Leaden Hall School, Wiltshire
Project: Leaden Hall – How sustainable is our school?
Turners Hill CofE Primary School, West Sussex
Project: The Road To Sustainability
The Skinners’ School, Tunbridge Wells
Project: HEAL 2008-09
Daylesford Infant School, West Midlands
Project: Daylesford Infants’ Eco Group!
Lymm High School, Cheshire
Project: Spreading the “Sense …

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The Roots & Shoots Award Ceremony in London was a wonderful way for my students to share their work with others. The girls were especially excited that Dr. Jane Goodall herself was going to be there. I brought along two Upper School students named Madeleine Larsson and Martina Svennson. They had spent eight days with me in Romania in the summer.

The girls and I worked with a charity called Romanian Children’s Relief, where students from our school, TASIS, have been volunteering for years. The difference with this trip is that it was just the two girls and myself. The girls worked with abandoned babies, toddlers with …

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Jubilee Primary School’s Roots & Shoots group was invited to attend the annual award ceremony at the Royal National Theatre in September. We were the only group from London that was attending.

Four members of the group were lucky enough to travel up to town: Harvey Schneider, Amy-Ella Faria, Riccon Narine-Turnbull and Grace Bazunu.

When we got there we put up a display of the work we have done with our group – and we had drinks and biscuits! We also rehearsed what we were going to say in our presentation.

Jane Goodall came to the stand and met us. She told us a bit about her life and we told her what we had done in Roots & Shoots.

Then she spoke to all …

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by Zoe Hodges, age 13.

We all had a great time from start to end. We met up on Shaw Station where we caught a train at half past six in the morning, which was a tiny bit early for me. That then took us to Victoria Station where we caught a taxi to Manchester Piccadilly, then an early train on to London Euston. This took around three hours to get there but we busied our selves talking and discussing the day ahead of us.

When we got there we had to catch the Underground train, which was horrible. The sound, the smell, the noise, it was one of those “never again” experiences. When we got to the other end we then …

Read all of Crompton House School Trip to London for the Roots & Shoots Awards

On the 15th September, schools from across the UK gathered together in London to share and present their Roots & Shoots activities to Dr Jane and each other at the Roots & Shoots Awards ceremony.

The event took place at the prestigious National Theatre on the South Bank. The National aims to re-energise the great traditions of the British stage and to expand the horizons of audiences and artists alike. It aspires to reflect the diversity of the nation’s culture.

Students prepared creative showcases of their contribution in the area of people, animals and the environment and described to Dr Jane and the other participants what they had achieved, why it was important and how they would build on their …

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