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Mission Updates

Recent updates on current Roots & Shoots missions

Kitchen garden busy-ness

Chef Carl and team had a busy afternoon harvesting red onions and lavender, watering, prepping soil for planting carrots and quality testing blackcurrants and raspberries. The blue potatoes have already been enjoyed in the dining room and courgettes are doing brilliantly too!

Testing Eco games

Walhampton’s Y5 and Y6 conservationists took a break from lopping laurel for a week to road-test a game designed to make us stop and think about electricity usage. They ranked various appliances from game consoles and phone chargers to fridges and kettles before thinking about which activities use the most energy – where would you […]

Recycling at Liphook Infant School

The eco team have been busy looking into recycling around our school and what we can do more of. We found that the milk bottles we use are recyclable and weren’t being recycled. We have two milk bottle bins that the eco team are monitoring every break time. We’ve read the book ‘The Rubbish Monster […]

Sunrise Trip

Early mornings have been loud from bird song the past few weeks. We were regularly woken by this wonderful chorus during our recent camping trips. This has prompted us to take on a new adventure: we wanted to see the birds, not just to hear them! There are several Nature Reserves in our area. They […]

Dr Jane’s Visit Inspires Student Action

Roots & Shoots at Eton has been going strong, particularly since Dr Jane Goodall’s visit on 1 March when she gave an inspiring talk to teachers, school leaders, and hundreds of students from Eton and its partner schools (Beechwood School, Herschel Grammar School, Holyport College, Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy, Slough & Eton CE Business & […]

Conscious Choice Campaign at Moreton Hall

At Moreton Hall our Eco team has been working in partnership with the Morton Enterprise to bring a variety of items to the school. The group have lead a school wide campaign for more environmentally friendly options to be sold in our shops to help enable customers to make more  globally friendly choices in their purchases. This was […]