To honour Dr Jane’s 90th Birthday, we decided to do a BIG litter pick up in and around our school. The local park and the surrounding footpaths will greatly benefit from this, and we just know there will be many aluminium drinks cans that we can send over to our EMR Metal Recycling centre (we […]
On Wednesday, 6th March we had the amazing privilege to a visit from the extremely talented French musician, Etienne Sibille. Etienne came to our school to delivery the very important message on why it is so important that we should look after our planet. His interactive show was delivered to our Year 3 & 4 […]
As part of our Roots & Shoots Awards 2023 prize, our school won a choice of an all-expensive paid class residential trip or a class activity day at the RSPCA, Mallydams Wood Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centre. Before arranging the trip, Andrea and I visited the site to view the facilities for our risk assessment […]
Our Roots & Shoots After School Club have been looking at ways they could tidy up and separate our composting area from our wild meadow. We wanted to make a fence of some kind but wanted to make it look as natural as possible. One of the children said, whilst on a family-walk, they had […]
We have recently purchased two motion capture wildlife cameras; we were able to purchase these from our amazing prize money from the Roots & Shoots Awards 2023. Just before Christmas our cameras arrived and we excitedly set about discussing suitable places to set them up within the school grounds. Each afternoon, the children helped to […]
Here at Goat Lees, we take recycling very seriously. Alongside our normal scrap paper recycling in around the school and our printer and toner recycling, we have our ongoing partnership with EMR Recycling Centre where pupils and adults collect all kinds of scrap metal: cans, tins, old bikes, pots & pans – basically anything made […]
On Wednesday, 10th January, we had a very special visitor to our school. Rob Smith, previously a co-anchor on the BBC South East Today news programme, came in to interview some of our children and staff about the work we do to help the environment. This amazing opportunity came about from Goat Lees winning Gold […]
After receiving the exciting news that our school had been one of the lucky winners of the SEK Green School Awards 2023, we were invited to attend the Awards Ceremony at the Ashford International Hotel on Thursday, 23rd November. One adult and three children were asked to attend from each of the 25 Kent schools, […]
Over the past few months, we have been very lucky to be involved in some very exciting projects. Firstly, we have been extremely successful with our can and scrap metal recycling with EMR Ashford (EMR is one of the world’s leading metal recyclers with locations across the globe). To-date, we have raised over £1,600, which […]
Here at Goat Lees, we take recycling very seriously and are always on the lookout for interesting recycling schemes. Obviously, we make sure we are recycling everything we can, day-to-day: paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, ink and printer cartridges, cooking oil from our school kitchens, batteries and old PC equipment. Over the past year or so, […]