This booklet was produced by Mrs
Waters and Evelyn Primary School’s
Eco warrior Reps.
Evelyn Eco
Warrior Reps
Produced January 2011
Our ECO Friendly Guide
Clara Carmichael
Sophie Harrison
Ryan Hartley
Jack Fillingham
Laura Dean
Ellie Wilcox
Eleanor Dunphy
Libby Fields
Nicole Barr
Owen Wilson
Molly Jones
Olivia Strettle
Josh Harrison
Mr Hollingsworth
Mrs Waters
Mr Smith
Kirsty Martin
We develop our Eco awareness through lots of
different waysBring and buy book sale
Green day
Entrepreneurial week
Climate week challenge
Recycled magazine sales
Learning through our curriculum
Dragons Den
Assemblies
Outside visitors
Energy companies
Our local council support
Evelyn are
working hard to...
Our school work together to make sure we all live a
happy and healthy lifestyle. We work even harder to
make sure the life we lead won’t affect the planet
for our future generations around the world. We like
to share our Eco ideas with our community and
global links and are always happy to take on board
ideas of others.
Re-duce
Re-cycle
Re-think
Re-use
As a whole school we are led by our team of Eco
Warrior Reps. They work hard in leading the
school in making a difference to the world we
live in. This involves modelling Eco initiatives
and providing continuous guidance for the pupils
of Evelyn and the community. we are striving to
make an impact on our school, community,
country and planet.
Our Eco Warrior reps encourage pupils to consider
re-usable tubs for their packed lunches, in order to
reduce the amount of bag, foil and paper waste. A
chart has been produced by the team to display
how many pupils are using re-usable storage for
their lunch. Our goal, is to become the first school
to be a ‘package free lunch’ school.
Each class have a recycling paper bin. Posters have
been displayed on these bins to remind everyone to
use both sides before disposal. The team monitor
the bins to ensure paper has been used to its full.
Paper that is found with opportunity for more use
is taken out and placed in classroom scrap paper
trays and to the office for the fax machine.
At Evelyn, we value and uphold our one school
rule– RESPECT. Respect, for ourselves, our
friends and our environment. We therefore, work
as a whole school to keep our school an enjoyable
and exciting learning place. Around our school
grounds, bins are provided. There are waste bins
and recycling bins.
During the warmer seasons, we are given the
choice of eating lunch outside. It is important that
all the bins are clearly labelled, in order for everyone to dispose of their waste accurately.
We carry out lots of learning outdoors, such as,
Shakespeare plays in the amp theatre, nature
walks, art and PE lessons.
At Evelyn Primary school, we appreciate the need
for biodiversity, it demonstrates a natural environment. We enjoy the many gardens we have at our
school Our Reflection garden is a place were we can
take a book and read, have time with friends or take
time alone to reflect. Plants are planted in pots
around the school to attract wildlife and to also
provide pleasure for ourselves and our community.
Through curriculum areas we are able to explore
biodiversity, e.g. green plants, living things and their
environment and life processes.
As much as possible, throughout the year, our large
school field is available for us to use. We embrace
the opportunities for running free on the open field,
getting lots of exercise, developing specific sport
skills and discovering hidden worlds, such as
habitats for wildlife.
Once every half term our team ask their families
and friends for used magazines to bring into
school. In the school grounds, the team hold a
magazine bazaar for parents and the community.
The magazines are re-sold and the money is used
for supporting our Eco initiatives, e.g. water butts
for the school grounds. Magazines that aren’t sold,
are recycled.
We are pleased to support a charity called
Blythswood. A clothes, books and shoe recycling
bin has been placed in our school grounds for
parents and the community to bring their unwanted
items.
Our school holds an annual bring and buy book
fair. This is a fun activity and an ideal way of
showing how we can re-use books whilst raising
money for local charities.
We now have 2 outdoor, industrial, recycle bins.
Eventually, we would like for the council to take
away one of our waste bins, so that the majority of
our waste is recyclable. Over time, this action will
make a difference to our planet and our schools
budget, as we save money on having less waste
bins empties.
Eco warriors monitor the amount of food wasted
at lunch times. The food waste is weighed every
day with a digital weighing machine. The
children then make a recording of the weight. A
target is produced from the results and presented
to the school.
The ink and paper used in the photocopier are
monitored weekly and data is shared at meetings.
The team, through discussion, are able to create
targets from the collected data.
Fuel is monitored by the team and our schools
site manager. Feed back on the fuel bills is
shared with the team by our head teacher, Mrs
Arnold.
All pupils at Evelyn Primary are encouraged to
water plants around school with old dregs of water from water bottles, before throwing it away
and refilling.
Evelyn’s travel plan is a scheme which encourages pupils and parents to think more about the
way in which they travel to and from school.
Other means of travel are advised, such as,
Car share, cycling and walking. A WOW (walk
once a week) register is taken every day to
calculate the children’s mean of travel. A prize
giving ceremony takes place at the end of the
year to reward the children who make the most
effort to use means of traffic, other than car. We
are pleased to offer pupils a cycling proficiency
training course, which is both enjoyable and
provides cycle safety education. We are pleased
that we are now able to offer a safe and secure
bike shelter for children who wish to travel to
school on their bikes.
Eco warriors work hard and think of more Eco
ways to communicate to parents and the
community. We have a parent mail system set up
and continue to encourage parents to access all
school correspondence through e-mail. The
reception area of the school displays a monitor
which communicates school activity and
Information.
We hold community coffee mornings to
demonstrate our Eco work. These are led by the
Eco Warrior reps.
A poster created by the Eco reps has been given to
parents to provide ideas for making a change to the
planet. Assemblies are another form of communication to our community to demonstrate our Eco
efforts. Our local councils environmental sustainable team are accommodating in providing us with
updates through assemblies.
As a school, we believe it is important that
everyone understands the root reason for
making changes, like, re-using, recycling,
reducing and re-thinking. Consequently, our Eco
team have produced posters to explain more
about global Perspectives, such as: energy,
biodiversity, water, healthy living, litter,
transport, waste and our environment.
We have provided some useful websites to
explain further.
www.recyclenow.com
www.ecofriendlykids.co.uk/
www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/res_tips
www.eco-schools.org.uk/
www.kidsforsavingearth.org/
www.jointhepod.org/schools/default
Save it
Make it
Use it
Our local council provide compost bins for us to
make our own compost. A whole school effort is
made to save peelings and cardboard and place
them in the appropriate bins, The Eco Warriors
collect daily, biodegradable peel bags from the bins
and place them in the compost bins. We are on our
third bin and are hoping to be using our own
‘school made’ compost in the next year to help with
our school planting and hopefully hold a plant stall
in the Summer fair.
Although the Eco Warriors work together as a
team, they are split into smaller teams to carry
out specific responsibilities.
Fuel- Sophie and Clara
Photocopier-Sophie and Clara
Food waste-Owen, Jack and Laura
Compost fillers-Olivia, Sophie and Molly
Lights out– Libby and Ellie
Paper bin– Ryan and Eleanor
Lunchtime fruit bins-Nicole and Josh