Composting and Wormerys are a clean easy and educational way to deal with organic matter. Green up your act explains how banana skins, apple cores, tea bags, 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.

Recycled Wormery

Green Up Your Act Education teaches the meaning of sustainability through workshops using a balance of discussion, practical activities and out of class learning. The project’s main objectives are to enable children to become aware of their own carbon footprint. They are taught this through the subjects of food, waste, recycling, energy production and pollution. By doing this they can become inspired and empowered to protect their direct environment. Many areas of the curriculum are covered, particularly science, geography and citizenship.

Now offering  a combination workshops as a package to all school wanting to address

environmental issues.

Full CRB check available on request

All prices are very reasonable

Liz Williamson St Mary Magdalen School

Earthships are cutting edge ‘green’ buildings, constructed using waste car tyres and other recycled materials. They use the planets natural systems to provide all utilities – using the sun’s energy and rain to provide heat, power and water. They are buildings that heat and cool themselves, harvest their own water and use plants to treat their sewage.

Earthships enjoy the weather, regardless of season. If it’s raining they catch free water, if it’s windy they generate free power and if it’s sunny they are capturing free heat and electricity. Apart from using all the resources immediately around them they also employ extensive energy efficiency and water conservation measures, ensuring that the rainwater and renewable energy they harvest goes as far as possible.

Topics covered

• Sc1 – Scientific Enquiry
• Sc2 – Life processes and living things.
• Sc3 – Materials and their properties
• Sc4 – Physical processes

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When visiting the Earthship we strongly encourage using the Big Lemon Bus Company. Its an alternative to using diesel run buses, the bus is run on 100% recycled cooking oil this is not only an easy way  to be green it also makes a fun and educational way to begin and finish the day.

There is a discount available if you mention the Earthship.

www.thebiglemon.com (01273 676867)

Schools and colleges contribute greatly to the green house gases in our environment. Energy, water, waste and traveling to school become a part of the schools carbon footprint. Targeting these areas and implementing a reduction in our carbon footprint is key to not only making your school kinder to the planet but it will also become an inspiring and empowering place for children to learn. This in turn will save the school money inspire the students to have a practical positive involvement in the future of our planet and learn more about the issues that concern us all as responsible citizens of planet earth.

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