Uptown Junk!!
Mr Nunn has worked wonders this year moving St Joseph's towards an eco-tastic environment, with bottle collecting fences, recycled note pads, energy saving stickers, the list is endless!
Mr Nunn has worked wonders this year moving St Joseph's towards an eco-tastic environment, with bottle collecting fences, recycled note pads, energy saving stickers, the list is endless!
NEWSFLASH!...St Joseph's have saved 10,000 bottles from landfill this year and gained £200 worth of sponsorship for Maes Ebbw school...
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Uptown Junk! has educated both students and teachers of the enormous benefits to our local environment and indeed our entire planet in the importance of recycling, energy saving and going green... |
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Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC) |
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The main achievements in 2015-16 |
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Staff taking recycling home to educate their families |
Staff and students volunteering to complete litter picks in and around school! |
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Eco committee represents St Joseph’s at a regional conference. |
£200 grant awarded for having a unique recycling initiative. |
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50 forms now understand their weekly responsibility to collect, sort and recycle all paper and plastic bottles. |
Teachers recycle in the staffroom all paper, card, batteries, tins, glass, plastic bottles and milk bottle tops! |
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Eco Bell in am and pm registration keeps everyone on their toes and reminds them, reduce-reuse-recycle |
Forthnightly committee meetings now chaired and minuted by students. Sustainable structure established. |
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Paper for recycling re-used and made into note pads. 32 have now been distributed mostly to the children of teachers in school. |
Recycling Initiative rebranded ‘Uptown Junk’. |
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Sponsor forms distributed and the ESDGC committee has pledged to recycle as many plastic bottles as possible. Money raised goes to support Maes Ebbw school in Newport. |
New recycling collection area on the school yard. So far, almost 100 students have recycled a bottle in the collection area rather than throw it in the bin. |
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School attendance at a regional global citizenship conference. |
Plans ahead to link with schools in different parts of the world! |