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Ashby School Eco Warriors
UK
1.The creation of Three Gardening Areas one being the House Gardens where each house was given an octagonal plot of land where they could grow whatever they wanted.
2.Various award schemes and mini projects established to reduce waste and save energy. One bigger project being the Big Switch Off in Leicester
3.Healthy eating projects and steps taken, currently working towards the Food for Life Partnership
4.Having been awarded the International Schools Award by embedding International waork in all curriculum areas and so on.
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Climate Change Challenge
UK
By engaging the whole school,using lesson time and making the most of internet links we achieved our aims or increasing recycling/composting and raising awareness of climate change issues. We also involved visitors to school to bring the subject to life.
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Eco Group
UK
The Eco Group set out to do waste and light audits to find out how much waste the school produces. Following that we visited the local dump at Wingmoore, Cheltenham.The school has also worked with the local transition group to start a new land based science course.
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Global Warming Solutions
UK
Looking at practical projects to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, initially examining energy saving solutions for the school swimming pool.
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Green flag video
UK
The school used a video to show how it achieved green flag status by undertaking a range of different environmental projects involving the whole school.
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Howe Dell's Eco-Animations
UK
The project has helped to raise awareness and publicise the already planned solution of the walking bus initiative and a whole school walking bus poetry competition. Key components were:
- Researching on environmental issues both locally and globally
- Mind-mapping an issue that they would like to promote
- Developing a story using our mind-map that to highlight the main issues then creating a storyboard
- Creating scenery using a range of materials and characters using figures and plasticine
- Using digital cameras to bring the story to life
- Editing the animations to provide a professional finish
- Producing a poster to promote the eco-animations across the whole school
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Oxfordshire from the Ground
UK
Working with a local photographer and staff from the school the project team are:
- researching climate change/current environmental issues
- learning how to take effective photographs
- taking photographs to raise awareness of environmental issues and challenge behaviour
- displaying photos around school
Photos will be exhibited in Oxford from 1st - 15th June and nationally via the Creative Partnerships website.
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Recycle4envision
UK
This team project is a community festival to encourage everyone to think more about the amount they waste and to recycle more! The festival is particularly aimed at other young people because we want to show that young people can take a lead on creating a sustainable future. Due to take place in July.
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Save It!
UK
We had a whole school assembly and thought about how to save water as our first project involving everyone from the nursery to 16 year olds. We installed water butts and recyled 'grey' water from waterplay trays, mulched plants to reduce evaporation and made posters to remind everyone not to leave taps running.
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Saving Terry Firmer
UK
The constant abuse from his pupils had left teacher, Mr Firmer at melting point. When Mr Firmer finally snaps things go from bad to worse for Rachel Carson and her classmates. Can Rachel get her class on track in time for their GCSE's, or is the damage too far gone?
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The Snowy Project
UK
• Using Woodheys Primary (we won the 2007 Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in Schools) as a model, six other Primary schools in Trafford, Greater Manchester, now have Energy Teams who regularly meet to read meters, run competitions and produce educational resources to improve understanding and knowledge about energy and water usage.
• We are all supported by the Energy Management team of Trafford Borough Council and by Action for Sustainable Living, a local charitable organisation.
• Now that the teams are set up, it is our intention to continue the work indefinitely and to recruit other schools to join us until all schools in our area are part of the project and it becomes a way of life for all.
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tREe-CYCLE
UK
We were concerned about the increasing carbon emissions from our school transport. We conducted a survey on vehicle use, model, emissions and journey length for the entire school for a year. We calculated, we need to plant 4490 trees to offset annual transport emissions. To date we have planted 2800 trees, organised a cycle to school day to encourage less vehicle use, built a bike shed from recycled materials, organised cycle buses, influenced government to action cycle lanes and setup a tree nursery for all new students to grow trees. Our vision, to become carbon neutral with our school transport.
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Trip Switch
UK
We promoted car sharing throughout schools,the council and businesses in the area.
We gave incentives for using bikes, buses or walking - prizes etc!
This was achieved through our climate champions network and meetings between all parties taking part.
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