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Author: Agent Paggett

Fund Raising for the RSPCA!

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 […]

Dead Hedge Project

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 […]

Wildlife Cameras

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 […]

Recycle, Recycle, Recycle!

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 […]

Goat Lees Exciting Updates!

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 […]

Our Recycling Campaigns!

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, […]