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!
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 […]
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 […]
Members of Caldecott Foundation School’s Eco Club were pleased to participate in a biodiversity workshop hosted by Singleton Environment Centre. The topic of biodiversity is particularly important to us as it is one of our topics that we chose to focus on as part of our eco schools green flag award. We wanted to participate […]
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 […]
We have had a very busy few months and are super excited to update you on what we have been up to! Firstly, our wildlife pond that we have been working on is very nearly ready for reveal – this will definitely need a post of its own and after another session on Wednesday, we […]
Over the last two terms, our Topic focus has been ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’. We have been learning how important it is to try and reduce the waste we produce, whilst also having a close look at ways in which we can do this. As part of our learning, we had a visit to Godinton House […]
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 & […]
We were recently contacted by Claire Norman, the Senior Climate Action Officer from Ashford Borough Council to take part in an exciting opportunity to trial a ‘Ways to Save Water’ teaching programme which is currently being developed by South East Water. The scheme is aimed at children aged between five and seven (Key Stage One) […]
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 […]