Dr Clow generated a list of everything we have done since the last inspection:
- Moss graffiti
- Fruit/veg planting around school
- Living wall project
- Green days
- Sponsored an elephant called Dumbo
- Building work at school: new geography, new bio, soon to be new Art/design (solar panels and ground heating)
- Canteen/maintenance improved recycling (waste oil, waste food, wood chipper to make compost) and assemblies on this.
- Healthy eating assemblies – improvements in canteen and tuck shop
- Fairtrade assemblies, whole school quiz and cake stall. Research and suggestions of more fairtrade products in school. Link to Pocklington fairtrade.
- Lower school pupils part of national bee count.
- Links made to other eco committees in international schools.
- Continued maintenance of wildlife areas
- 500 trees planted
- Continued inclusion of water butts, composters, bat and bird boxes.
- Hedgehog homes
- Fenwick-Smith boarding house bird watching and tweeting videos
- 500 organism count
- Bio field trips reintroduced and going to eco field centre
- Whole school food surveys and assemblies on results
- Continued paper recycling
- Continued ink cartilage recycling
- Measures put in place to reduce paper wastage
- 6th form conservation group on Thursday afternoons
- Wastebuster project collecting old clothing and turning them into eco points to buy eco - science equipment for science clubs and Plant clocks.
Well done to everyone - staff, pupils and parents who have helped us along the way!
Mrs Alexander, Dr Clow and Mrs Afford