Liphook Infant School has used the grant money for their forest school activities which has enhanced the children’s understanding of outdoor play. Funds were spent on buying more equipment for the roundhouse area where many outdoor activities are held and played. Fire pits were also created. The ‘nature school’ forest area is a wonderful place for […]
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 […]
In September 2022, the beginning of the academic year, I began running an After School Club with primary children from the Ofsted outstanding Liphook Junior School. Since then the children have enthusiastically learnt about several poignant and relevant issues relating to the conservation of our beautiful planet, and along with what the school does already with their Green […]
Stemming from my After School Club – Teaching Children Conservation Through Art – and combined with the school’s excellent green and environmental efforts, I’m thrilled to share that Liphook Infant School has been given a Bronze Award for Spring 2022 from Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots. The Bronze has been awarded in recognition of contributions […]
The children at my Spring Term After School Club at Liphook Infant School began the year by learning about tree conservation and winter birds in a creative manner. Coincidentally, the new incredible documentary series, The Green Planet, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, which also started at the beginning of January, is all about trees and […]
Liphook would use the grant money for their forest school activities, to enhance the children’s understanding of outdoor play. For this, they would need to buy more equipment for the round house area where along with many other activities, they create fire pits. Liphook will be using the grant to fund the purchase of a range of […]
Running after school clubs with slightly older children is quite a different scenario to working with pre-school toddlers, who are capable of understanding general ideas, whereas the kids in my new club at Liphook Infant School are eager to learn exactly why things happen. There is a special area in the school’s reception dedicated to […]
Liphook Infant School in Liphook, Hampshire joined Roots & Shoots: Mission Possible today. You can see where Liphook Infant School is on a map and read about their local environment here.