Green Up Your Act Education

Green Shoots Workshop

PhilHunton — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:22:51 +0000

Green Shoots is a captivating activity giving insight into how food is responsible for our carbon footprint. Planting paper pots with seedlings is an effective way of learning about recycling and growing food.

All plants and materials supplied

Subjects include

Recycling.

newspaper+pot

Food miles.

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.

Eco School Awards and Workshops

admin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:01:01 +0000

Bronze Eco-School Award

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.

Subjects covered

Waste

Healthy Living.

Energy.

Water.

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

Biodiversity

School Grounds

Food

Minibeasts

Bug Barn Pic

Composting and Wormerys (New Workshop)

PhilHunton — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:12:16 +0000

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

Introduction

PhilHunton — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:45:54 +0000

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

“All of our classes from Year 1 to Year 5 enjoyed their inspiring and hands on activities of making pots and planting them with food seedlings – all in just one hour for each class workshop. The activity had many links for each class with their science and creative curriculum and with our Eco week themes. This was the highlight of our school Eco Week because it linked every aspect of our educational focus: food, transport, reduce, reuse, recycle, simplicity, co-operation; there was no preparation required on the part of the teachers and we were amazed at what could come out of two handmade baskets carried on the bus – enough to provide every child with their own pot making material, the compost and a variety of food seedlings to go in it. This was a workshop of huge educational value and one which every child learnt a practical skill of immense value, as well as getting to take their seedling home to grow and eat. We are looking forward to more input another time.”

Tour of the Earthship

PhilHunton — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:06:53 +0000

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

The Big Lemon

PhilHunton — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:21:20 +0000

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)

Tetra Pack Wallet Workshop

admin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:02:33 +0000

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.

Increasing population means that there are more people on the planet to create waste. Discarded packaging contains materials that are not biodegradable. Harmful chemicals and greenhouse gasses are released from rubbish in landfill sites. Recycling helps to reduce the pollution caused by waste and helps protect our resources for future generations.

Making use of redundant materials is a clear statement about closing the loop of resources, but it is 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.

All materials supplied.

Anna Frendo Ukfeild Technology Eco Week

Teacher of Geography – Sustainability Co-ordinator

Subjects Covered

Energy
Purchasing and waste.
Inclusion and participation.
Global dimension.

All schools must be sustainable by 2020

PhilHunton — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:34:41 +0000

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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The most effective way of bring down the carbon emissions is for a school to become an ‘Eco School’ or join The Sustainable schools National framework these initiatives are the most recognized way to becoming more sustainable. Recently I have been working with the Priory School Eco Group (PEG). Together with my support and assistance they have gained the Bronze Flag Award and are well on their way to the Silver Flag Award. We hosted an eco fair, which will help of the criteria for their Silver Award status. It will also bring attention to the aims of a Sustainable School and will raise money for future green projects.

My main aim for ‘Green up your act education’ is to inspire a new generation of people. I want to teach them an awareness of green and environmental issues, as children will become the consumers of the future. They will then be able to pass this information onto their parents and as a result of this make our planet more sustainable.

“Educating people from an early age about how our actions influence the environment in prompting responsible behavior. Creative and practical ways can be found to help pupils translate the study of climate change into actions in their everyday lives”

Science

Sc2 – Life processes and living things

Living things in their environment

5 c) care for the environment

Sc2 Life processes and living things
Living things in their environment
5 a) about ways in which living things and the environment need protection

Sc2 Life processes and living things
Living things in their environment – Adaptation and competition

5 a) about ways in which living things and the environment can be protected, and the importance of sustainable development

Sc3 Materials and their properties
Changing materials – Chemical reactions
2 i) possible effects of burning fossil fuels on the environment (for example, production of acid rain, carbon dioxide and solid particles)

Sc4 Physical processes
Energy resources
5 a) about the variety of energy resources, including oil, gas, biomass, food, wind, waves and batteries, and the distinction between renewable and non-renewable resources

Breadth of study
1 c) considering the benefits and drawbacks of scientific and technological developments, including those related to the environment, health and quality of life

Sc2 Life processes and living things
Living things in their environment

5 b) how the impact of humans on the environment depends on social and economic factors, including population size, industrial processes and levels of consumption and waste

c) about the importance of sustainable development

Sc4 Physical processes
Energy resources and energy transfer

5 b) about the efficient use of energy, the need for economical use of energy resources, and the environmental implications of generating energy

Breadth of study
1 c) considering and evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of scientific and technological developments, including those related to the environment, personal health and quality of life, and those raising ethical issues

Geography

Key Stage 2

Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development
5 a) recognise how people can improve the environment (for example, by reclaiming derelict land) or damage it (for example, by polluting a river), and how decisions about places and environment affect the future quality of people’s lives

b) recognise how and why people may seek to manage environments sustainably, and to identify opportunities for their own involvement (for example, taking part in a local conservation project)

Breadth of study
6 e) an environmental issue, caused by change in an environment (for example, increasing traffic congestion, hedgerow loss, drought), and attempts to manage the environment sustainably (for example, by improving public transport, creating a new nature reserve, reducing water use)

Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development

5 a) describe and explain environmental change (for example, deforestation, soil erosion) and recognise different ways of managing it
b) explore the idea of sustainable development and recognise its implications for people, places and environments and for their own lives