The Green Shoots workshop gives an insight into seasonal food, nutrition and how bringing it to our tables accounts for about 20% of UK greenhouse gas emissions. Making hand made paper pots with seedlings to take home is an effective way of learning about food and where it comes from.

All plants and materials supplied

Subjects include

Recycling.

Local food.

Organic.

Seasonal food.

Sowing and Planting.

Growing food at home.

Subjects Covered

Food and drink.

Energy and water.

Travel and traffic.

Inclusion and participation.

Local well-being.

Global dimension.

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Pupils at Priory School, Lewes, have taken their first steps to make their schools more environmentally friendly. Priory Eco Group (PEG) have pledged to cut down their litter and count the amount of electric and water they use at the school. They were guided by a representative from Green up your act Education, a Sussex based organization which advises schools on how to make energy improvements.

Pupils were shown how to make wallets from Tetra-packs and a bike linked to a small generator was used to demonstrate how much energy is needed to power a light bulb. They drew up plans for future energy-saving projects and were awarded a bronze award for their effects.

Silver Eco-School Award

Green Up Your Act has helped gain a Silver Eco Schools award for St Mary Magdalene’s school by building a Bug Hotel.

Bug Barn and Raised Bed Workshop

Subjects covered

Waste, Healthy

Living, Energy

Water, Biodiversity

School Grounds.

Food.

Mini Beasts.

Reducing our waste is one of the best ways to have a positive impact on our world. It’s important to both our natural environment and us. Our landfill sites are filling up, by 2015, almost all landfills in the UK will be full and incineration should not be the answer.

Making use of redundant materials is a clear statement about closing the loop of resources. Its a challenge to create new and meaningful uses for objects we regard as rubbish. The Tetra-Pack to wallet design is a transformation creates new and exciting uses for material otherwise regarded as waste. In this case the cardboard, aluminium and plastic which are hard to recycle creates a new object which cleverly borrows from the properties of the discarded carton. i.e: durable and hard wearing

Anna Frendo Ukfeild Technology Eco Week Teacher of Geography – Sustainability Co-ordinator

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