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sustainability committee by Tom Wilson, Year 6 Teacher
This year the sustainability committee has an important role as
with the least waste gets a reward for demonstrating their
we move towards our goal of becoming a sustainable school.
concern for our environment.
The committee is made up of a number of students who are committed to helping to protect the environment in which we
Committee members also continue to organise paper
live. The main aim of our committee is to inform and educate
recycling. Each week our members collect all of the used
students and the wider community of what we can do to
paper in the school and with the help of secondary CAS
promote a cleaner healthier earth. In order to do this, we aim
students it is sent to be recycled. We also actively encourage
to reduce our use of natural resources (such as energy, water
students to waste less paper on pictures and colouring
and paper) and produce less waste.
and to use paper on two sides. Sustainability members also make videos and posters letting students know about
This year we have already had great success as we have
the simple steps students can take to help improve our
managed to abolish single use plastics and food cartons from
environment.
our lunch room. All students now eat from reusable plates and use cutlery. It is a small, but significant, step forward in our
We give short presentations to educate students and to urge
fight for sustainability.
them not to waste food when possible and to turn off lights and to plug out electrical appliances when they are not using
In addition to this, we have introduced Nude Food week.
them.
Nude Food week is the first week of each month, when all students are encouraged to bring snacks which use less, or no
Through our work I hope we can raise awareness of how we,
plastic packaging. Each class collects the plastic packaging
as individuals, can help protect the environment and how
they have brought to school over the week and we can see
as a community we can make a real difference to the fight
how much unnecessary waste we are producing. The class
against climate change.
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