On Wednesday, 4th May, the Mayor of Ashford visited Goat Lees Primary School to see for himself all the good things the children and staff have been doing to make our school the most environmentally friendly school we can. The Eco Group had the opportunity to show him around our school, pointing out all our […]
For our whole school topic this term we are looking at ‘Water’. Each year group is learning about the importance water has for all living things, including our planet, and the impact climate change is having on this precious resource. Year 6 has been looking at how climate change increases the odds of worsening droughts […]
Our School’s Roots & Shoots Eco Group were invited to the ‘Eco School’s Environmental Forum’ which was held at the Mayor of Ashford’s chambers on the afternoon of Tuesday, 29th March. The children were extremely excited to be chosen to attend such an event, and for the opportunity to be meeting Cllr Callum Knowles, the […]
Our peace and quiet was shattered today by the sounds of protest echoing around our school. Year 3 had been learning about how wonderful our planet’s rainforests are. By the end of the lesson they understood that rainforests were not only home to many indigenous people, but contain over 30 million species of plants and […]
Since starting our Roots & Shoots Eco Group, we have been working hard, looking at ways we can improve on our school’s environmental awareness and impact, especially as we are now working towards our ‘Eco-School Accreditation’. The Eco Group decided to run a ‘How Eco Friendly is Your Class?’ Competition where every day the Eco […]
The chicks have hatched! The children are so excited; they have been watching closely for signs of the little fluffy bundles of life breaking free from their shells to join us at Goat Lees. As you can see from the photos below, we have been very successful and have managed to hatch 9 of the […]
Christmas and New Year’s break seem a long time ago now and we have quickly got back into the swing of school life. Our Roots & Shoots Afterschool Club has started again and we have two mini projects on the go; improving our bird watching area with a ‘Bird Cafe’, and making hedgehog houses in […]
With the outside area growing from strength to strength, and with our newly formed Roots & Shoots Eco Group, we thought it would be a great idea to run a stall at our Christmas Fayre to see if we could raise some money towards more equipment and gardening tools to help maintain our outside area. […]
As we move towards the winter months, things are slowing down: plants are dying back and many creatures are thinking about hibernating. We, however, are still busy! We have been cutting back our wild meadow area, clearing out fallen leaves from our wildlife pond, staking our growing saplings and cutting back overgrown trees and bushes. […]
On Tuesday, 21st September, our newly formed Roots & Shoots After School Club celebrated International Day of Peace. We split in to two groups as we wanted to send a message to everyone and also plant some more willow to add to our growing willow shelter in our wild meadow. The first group went scavenging […]
