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Parents, |
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5th October 2009 |
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Eco-Committee
Update |
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After
last year’s successes of being awarded both
the Bronze and Silver Award by the Eco Schools
organisation, this year the eco-committee has
split into three groups: the Eco Group, the Fair
Trade Group and the Ground Force team, in order
that we can achieve all that is required to
obtain the much coveted Green Flag Award.
One of these
requirements is to hold an eco-event which we are
planning to do on the afternoon of Friday
23rd October. This will be a whole
school event and pupils will be taking part in a
variety of activities relating to the environment.
One of these activities will be an art and craft
activity and to do this we need at least 250
empty, clean yoghurt pots. If you have any please
could you send them into school with your child.
The Fair
Trade group will be organising a stall of Fair
Trade snacks which your child will be able to buy
at morning break time and at lunch time on this
day.
The Ground
Force team are organising an event in the school
garden. They are rather short of gardening tools
and so if you have an old trowel, fork or spade
which you no longer need please could you bring
them into school.
As well as
raising awareness about environmental issues
which are specific to our local environment, the
eco-committee is also wishing to establish links
with a school in Kenya and to help support the
Kenya Children’s Home orphanage in Nairobi.
We shall be fund-raising throughout the year to
raise money for children at this orphanage.
Our first
fundraising event will be a jewellery recycling
collection. Each child will be given an envelope
to bring home on Friday 16th October into which
you can put any old, broken or unwanted jewellery.
Please return this envelope by Thursday
22nd October with your child’s name
clearly written on the envelope as there will be
a lucky draw on the 23rd October and a chance to
win an MP3 player.
The eco-committee is also running a design
competition. The competition is to design artwork
either to go onto an environmentally friendly
shopping bag or to go onto a carrier bag tidy. If
you child would like to enter this competition
please hand in the art work to either Mrs Dibnah
or Mrs Page by Wednesday October 21st
(see rules below).
The Eco-Committee
would like to thank you for all your support.
Yours
sincerely,
Carol Dibnah
Rules for Design Competition
• All artwork should be in black ink on
plain white paper
• Shopping Bag Design—the maximum size
for the artwork is 42cm by 42cm
• Carrier Bag Tidy Design—the maximum
size for the artwork 56cm high by 34cm wide.
Artwork should be in the centre of the paper
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