Environment As part of our commitment to green issues our school has been undertaking a project to achieve ECO-schools status. In order to achieve this standard the students have made a number of improvements to the school grounds to encourage wildlife. One of our major projects this year has been the creation of a bog […]
People At Christmas time the students decided to make decorative Yule logs again and expanded their enterprise also making holly wreaths. The natural materials, logs and holly were collected from the local area and then brought back into school. The students cut the logs to size and planed the bottom of each one to provide […]
Animals The students decided to improve upon their designs from last year to produce more bird houses and a large ‘Buginham Palace’ insect haven on site at school and natural habitats at the allotment. Students completed the construction during technology lessons and then filled the pallets with dry leaves, twigs and small branches. Students were […]
The rhythmic beating of The Long Eaton School’s Drum-atic Steel Band met guests and exhibitors as they arrived for the opening of the World Environmental Fun Day on Wednesday 4 July. Headteacher Neil Calvert welcomed everyone to the day and Eco School and sustainability Coordinator Barbara James gave an introduction about the event and recapped […]
Eco garden opening speech- by Gary King It gives me great pleasure to say, welcome ladies and gentlemen to the grand opening of the Grand opening of the refurbished Eco garden. So, I guess it’s nice to see to see, to see you… (I see you’re all awake) Now, I’m quite sure the visitors, being […]
Take a look at the workshop delivered by Tara Golshan (Executive Director, Education) at Canada Blanch Instituto Espanol de Londres.
Here are some pictures of our garden this year. The weeds have had a great year, but we have also grown peas, potatoes and a massive pumpkin plant. Most of our Eco Club membeds are year 1s so we have done plenty of digging and watering as well as weeding. Our potatoes weighed 1.6 kg […]
Potato Growers A group of 10 pupils in year 8 planted 2 varieties of potato sent to us by the potato council as part of a greenfingers gardening programme, incorporated into their science studies. They took soft and hardwood cuttings, planted potatoes and onions and learnt how to prune and weed flower borders in the […]
Summer term is always busy for Students, and this term has been no exception. While our members were all very busy and bogged down with written work for assignments and revision for exams we did continue to volunteer in our community. Clare Bagley and Charlotte Biddle ran the Bristol 10k along with a group of […]
The Eco Squad have been working on their Garden for over a year now. They had a meeting with the Headmaster over two years ago with their proposal! It has been a while for their ideas and dreams to take shape. How the garden looks now!