New Eco Code

Eco Meeting Notes

Date of meeting: Monday 11^th November 2013

Present: Afnan, Ellie B, Ellie L, Madison, Zoe, Malaika, Aqsah, Ella, Greg, Jake, Jessica, Muhammad, James

Chair person: James

Apologies: Jiyad, Tia

Discussion Points (Agenda)	Actions & Outcomes
Welcome	James welcomed everyone to our new Eco Committee. Especially Governor Miss Evans Badges were issued and their importance highlighted.
Eco Board	Thank you to Malaika Ellie and Madison for updated board with Mrs Lewis’s help. Muhammad.
Eco Blog	Muhammaed has started an Eco Blog. Access through the school website. Lots of interesting facts. Minutes of meetings will be placed on the blog. Big Massive thanks to Muhammad!
Hour without power	An hour without power 18th November 9.45-10.45...with the infants. Assembly! Start of switch off fortnight. Greg and Ellie – Eco Energy monitors. Posters have been made. Muhammad made posters.
Eco Code-	Eco Code has been re-written. It will now be sent to all classes and sent to blog etc.
Eco Day	26th November Year 3 planting crocus bulbs Year 4 tubs planting Year 5 hedges Year 6 fashion show recyled
Eco comic	All ideas to Muhammad please for eco comic strip. We may decide to sell.

Date of next meeting: 10am 18^th November 2013

ECO MEETING NO.2

The next Eco meeting will be taking place on the Monday 11th November  we, will be talking about what we will be trying to do to regain the green flag. We will also talk about what we could do to make our school more known throughout Birmingham, it will help us to be a good school .  Malika our secretary is putting more and more things up on our Eco Wall and so far I would think we are doing very well.

Hour Without Power

HOUR-WITHOUT-POWER The Eco team have agreed to once again  have an Hour-Without-Power to try to regain  the green flag.This event will take place on the  18th November. We are trying are best to get that green flag on our wonderful school site.

Eco Team Meeting 24.10.13

Welcome to my blog about the Eco team I’ll be keeping you updated and tell you what our great school is doing to help the community.

Gregg is a year 4, his mum and him are using recycled things to make stationary, Gregg is also a Eco member and has already made a good start for us.

On the 18^TH November we will have a Hour-without power and on the 11^TH November we will have a Eco meeting.

The Rainfall Project

So just how much rain have we had?

The Eco Team have linked up with a crowdsourcing4climate project at the University of Birmingham.
It is part of a pilot study to record community rainfall and also involves the University of Manchester and the University of Leicester.

Everyday members of the Eco Team collect the rainfall data, take a photo and tweet the information so BUCL can collect the information. a map is then produced and sent to the school.

To start with we followed the instruction for a homemade rainguage. This used an old lemonade bottle with jelly in the bottom to give a level surface to measure the rain against. a ruler was attached to the side to make measuring easier.

Everything went well for a few days, well no rain but getting warmer. Then on a really warm day the jelly melted and didn't set level. So reading the rainfall became a bit difficult.

Finally the jelly began to break down and the surface was no longer level but we had started using the Forest School rainguage and are now continuing with this.

 



How does it compare with last year?
Well on 19.6.12 it was 0mm, 20.6.12 0mm and 21.6.12 5mm  and the weekly total was 55mm(records from Forest School Log)

The Hedgehog

Quite a while ago the Eco team set up Hedgehog boxes on site with help from the Park Ranger service.

For sometime now we've know that there is a hedgehog that uses our site. He/she seems to come and go and this winter must have stayed elswhere. However, this week the hedgehog was back using the box for it's daytime sleep.

So we set up a camera to record any evening activity and this was the result.

A bit dark but you can see the hedgehog off for a night of hunting. Hasn't been back for a couple of days so have to wonder where he/she is staying now. Will update when the box is used again.