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Elberton Road
Olveston
South Gloucestershire
BS35 4DB

Tel: (01454) 613299
Fax: (01454) 616388

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“We have been focusing on School Grounds and Litter. Our plans included our main entrance fence project and recycling more to produce compost.

Avon Wildlife have also been helping us to create a vegetable patch. We are extremely grateful to the Allotment Association who helped support the school in this project.

We’re really proud about what our school is doing.”

“Our school has formed an Eco-Committee of 12 children (2 children from Year 1 – Year 6). The group meet each term to discuss key eco issues that need to be explored and improved in our school environment and in the wider community.”

Green Flag Photo - We’re very proud of our Green Flag Award...as you can see!

Eco-School Committee Dates - All meetings from Jan ‘09 to July ‘09 (66 KB)

The Eco-Warriors Code - “We can make the world a better place” (42 KB)

Eco-School Action Plan - Our Objectives, Actions & Success Criteria (155 KB)

OUR ECO-COMMITTEE DOCUMENTS

OUR ECO-SCHOOL MINUTES

Eco-Committee Minutes 2 - This meeting was held on 7th May ‘09 (17 KB)

Eco-Committee Minutes 1 - This meeting was held on 29th January ‘09 (39 KB)

Year 1:
Charlie & Rachel

Year 2
Emily & Ellen

Year 3
Kimberley & Sid

Year 4
Sam & Lauren

Year 5
Josie & Jake

Year 6
Ben & Meghan

OUR ECO-SCHOOL GARDENING CLUB - EVERY MONDAY - 12.45 TO 1.30PM - YEAR 5 & 6.

An introduction to our Gardening Club by Ben, Hattie & Tom (85 KB)

View Club Photos: Picture 1 • Picture 2 • Picture 3 • Picture 4 • Picture 5

Vegetable Patch Download and view our informative presentation. (6.1MB)

GO GREEN 4 SCHOOLS NEWSLETTERS (ADDED 7TH OCT ‘09)

Eco-Newsletter - Oct ‘09 (1.0 MB). Go Green 4 Schools is a non-profit organisation committed to helping schools combat climate change. Visit highly recommended.

VIEW THEIR WEBSITE

OUR ECO-COMMITTEE DOCUMENTS

Olveston Primary will be supporting this initiative and our Eco Warriors make regular checks in all areas of our school to see if lights or computers have been left on un-necessarily.

Our energy is monitored using a Smart Meter and we have seen our energy use reduce over the last 12 months. This has been a real team effort. The Eco Warriors will now be meeting to make a new action plan for 2009-10. More news will follow very soon!

Nationally, 71% of people regularly leave items on standby in their homes, and 65% leave lights on in rooms they are not using. In fact, equipment left on standby wastes enough energy to power over a million proper-ties a year or about £740 mil-lion worth of wasted energy.

The ‘Big Switch Off' is a campaign to reduce wasted energy by encouraging residents, businesses & schools to switch off unnecessary electrical equipment and lights to save energy and cut carbon dioxide emissions.

CHRISTMAS CARD RE-CYCLING - COLLECTING UNTIL FRIDAY 22ND JANUARY

Our Eco Warriors continue to find ways of making our school greener and discuss ways to protect the environment. This year we will have a recycling box for all Christmas cards. The Eco Warriors will monitor how many cards we manage to recycle. Here are some recycling facts from The Woodland Trust:

Please send in your unwanted Christmas cards for recycling. The collection box will be outside the school office. We will be collecting until Friday 22nd January 2010.

Recycling helps to tackle climate change. Waste sent to landfill can create methane – a powerful green-house gas. If we all recycle just one card this Christmas this would save 1,570 tonnes of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases - the same as taking 500 cars off the road for a year.

Recycling cards makes people think about consumer waste – particularly relevant at Christmas.

73.6 million cards were recycled by the scheme in 2008

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