Author: Agent Ringwood

There have been many whole-school ‘people’ projects, such as support for a school in the Gambia, and there is huge overlap with projects described earlier, but here some more specific Roots & Shoots initiatives of the summer term are described. A COMMUNITY EVENT – OUR DIAMOND JUBILEE LUNCH Our Jubilee Lunch, served to staff and […]

Nothing is environment alone, as is evidenced by the story of our bee campaign and mini wildflower meadow, but this section describes other environmental projects of our summer term. DOWN TO THE WOODS! When our students worked with teachers from nearby village schools in October, they met James White of Bushcraft. Do you know 8 […]

WHAT’S GOING ON IN RINGWOOD SCHOOL’S BACKYARD?  Food chains underpin all life whether in Ringwood or Africa, and we cannot neglect wildife in our own backyard. We invited Jason Bridges of Liberty’s Reptiles and Raptors into school. He brought in three birds of prey for the second time this year and by examining the contents […]

INTRODUCTION TO SUMMER TERM 2012  YOU’RE NEVER TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.  This account, written by Agent H and a number of Chrono-bots illustrates some of the small measures we have taken during the summer term to increase students’ understanding of animals, people and the environment. We know we only have one planet and […]

This account, written by Agent H and a number of Chrono-bots illustrates some of the small measures we have taken during the spring term to increase students’ understanding of animals, people and the environment. We know we only have one planet and we know that most of us live as if we had at least […]

Some projects cannot be confined to one school term. Furthermore, several straddle the people, animals and environment divide! PEP TALK, our campaign for the eradication of non-recyclable yogurt pots is an example of both. Running throughout the year, the campaign was inspired by graphic images of marine animals destroyed by plastic in the Pacific. We […]

Many of our projects are not confined to one school term. And several straddle the people, animals and environment divide! PEP TALK, our campaign for the eradication of non-recyclable yogurt pots is an example of both. Running and building throughout the year, it was inspired by graphic images of marine life wrecked by plastic in […]

A ONE PLANET FUTURE This account, written by Agent H and a number of Chrono-bots gives details of the small measures we have taken during the summer term to increase students’ understanding of animals, people and the environment. We measure every student’s carbon footprint at the end of Year 7 and cannot claim that many […]

As Ringwood’s work on the One World theme continued throughout the Summer term, we tried to meet the Roots & Shoots challenge of spreading the word of Roots & Shoots (Exercise 2 of J’s Lost Notebook). The many school and community projects that we have been involved with and that are described below, have allowed […]

Ringwood School with 1650 students, has great pressures on its outdoor space. We value the space we have and our students want to see as great a biodiversity in our grounds as we can possibly attain. After the apparent failure of Copenhagen, and with 2010 being the International Year of Biodiversity, Agent Hickman with her trusty Chrono-Bots realised there can be no better time in which to focus on biodiversity.