Good News! After a term focusing on 4 sustainability strands, we were able to gain our SILVER Eco Schools Award – Yippeee!! We looked at Energy – remembering to turn the lights off when we went out of our room, we looked at the solar panels on the village hall roof, we played with various […]
At Richard Bonington Primary and Nursery in Arnold, Nottingham the two Year 2 classes have completed a topic on bees. Their work included a demonstration from our local bee keeper including looking in detail at a bee hive and discovering how honey gets from the bee to the jar. They found out about the life of bees that live […]
James Allen’s Prep School is a very young Roots & Shoots school, having joined less than 2 years ago – but the girls have really embraced the wonderful ethos of looking after people, animals and the environment. This term, the whole school was deeply affected by the devastating Nepalese earthquake and the desolation it left […]
The picture at the top of this post is my dog, Negura. You many notice that he looks like an idiot. When it’s hot, humans use perspiration (also known as sweating) to cool down, but dogs don’t have many sweat glands. What do they do instead?
July 14, 2015 marks the 55th anniversary of the first time Dr. Jane Goodall set foot in what is now known as Gombe Stream National Park and launched her pioneering research with wild chimpanzees. Over five decades ago, Dr. Goodall begin a research project unlike any other … one that has taught us so […]
Six months in… AUTUMN TERM 2015 Are we already in July? Half the year has gone by so quickly. We have had six of our busiest months ever here at the R&S headquarters. For my part, I have already done three trips to Abu Dhabi since January! The programme in the Middle East is going […]
Teacher Wendy Gediman regularly takes Upper School students to Romania for service trips. She was recently asked to take two students who were in her fifth grade (Year 6) class last year to Romania this year. One of the girls also had her sister come along, who was in 8th grade (Year 9). The girls’ […]
This week’s featured activity ‘The Forest Environment’ is all about how forests have changed over time. It will introduce the concepts of deforestation and reforestation.
For this week’s blog we thought we would look at some happy news from the world of forests. Forests are a vital part of the biosphere, containing 80% of all the world’s plants (by mass) and thus playing a vital role in the fight against climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Not […]
This week’s featured activity is all about the plants and animals that inhabit European forests. Conduct a biodiversity survey, discover the types of trees that make up a forest and learn about the other plants and animals that live there
