Biodiversity Workshop

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Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems, greater biodiversity implies greater health. Car parks and well managed lawns take up a large amount of school grounds, these large spaces are often devoid of habitats for bugs and small animals. Green Up Your Your Act can offer safe, exciting opportunity’s for outdoor learning that can complement classroom-based activities and increase a schools green status.

  • Life processes
  • Humans and other animals
  • Green plants
  • Variation and classification, inheritance and evolution
  • Living things in their environment

Using composting and Wormerys to combat waste is a clean and educational way to deal with organic matter. Green Up Your Act explains how banana skins, apple cores, teabags, kitchen scraps and school grounds waste can be turned into valuable soil enriching compost. In this workshop you will be taken through how to operate your own system empowering you to reduce waste and save money.

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  1. Liz Williamson - St Mary Magdalen School Brighton  •  December 8, 2010 @1:09 pm

    Thanks to Green up your Acts help we managed to achieve our Silver Eco Award.
    Phil Hunton helped our school to establish an after School Club. With his practical help each week and by sharing his experience and resources, the children worked together to establish a Mini Beast Mansion in one corner of the playground and a wormery, which was made from a recycled bedside cabinet. Phil fueled the group with practical and straightforward ideas, advising us how to make the most of the projects. He is now helping us to work towards our Green Flag, by carrying our Eco group forward with an across the school composting scheme and helping us to implement energy saving ideas as part of the 10:10 initiative. It has been really refreshing to have such experienced, practical and reliable help with our after school work, with Phil as our advisor and friend to keep us going for our goals. We have really enjoyed our work and are looking forward to future projects to keep us on course for the Green Flag.

  2. Miss Bennett - Shorham Beach Primary School  •  May 3, 2011 @10:09 pm

    Miss Bennett

    “Thanks to Phil for setting up our wormery! We are now putting our vegetable peelings from the canteen to good use! This this has been a very valuable workshop which will go towards our Eco School Silver flag Award and it will make great fertilizer for the raised beds.”

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