Save the Earth Club

Do something now Don’t leave it any longer, With your help we could Make the planet stronger.

Introduction to the Save the Earth Club (powerpoint)

Save the Earth Photo Competition

Congratulations to the winner and runner up of the Save the Earth photo competition. Girls had to enter a photo they had taken of any natural scene. There were over 40 entries so a tough decision! 

Welldone again!

Miss Sheldon

Winner	Runner Up

Objectives for 2008 - 2009

Aims:

To help Coombe lower its Co2 emissions, measured by CEN in 2007
To support the Green Travel Plan
To reduce energy costs
To work with the Schools Recycling Policy
To raise awareness to pupils and teachers on current environmental issues

Energy Efficiency

To make sure all light bulbs are energy efficient
To change tube light bulbs from T12 to T 8 which are smaller (1inch)
To look at our energy supplier and see if there is a cheaper, greener option.
To allocate an ‘Energy Champion’ each lunch from the club, who will go around and switch off lights and check on any wasteful energy
To continue energy spy watching
Introducing time operated light switches

Recycling

Continued promotion of the recycling bins in all classrooms and recycling monitors
To compare prices of recycled paper and our suppliers costs
To replace staffroom toilet paper with recycled paper.

Renewable Energy

To look into buying solar panels for the school
To discuss costs to replace the Boiler with a Biomass Boiler (CEN)

Cycling in School

Cycilicous – a course run by RBK to encourage pupils to bike to school
Bikability – To introduce L3 to the L1 and L2 courses held
Questionnaire on why people don’t bike and send results to RBK
Plot map of where teachers live and see if car sharing could work
Letter to pupils that live close to school to encourage them to bike or walk to school
Meeting for cyclists to re-introduce the tag scheme, and how to get a locker through this scheme.
Year 7 Assembly on cycling and the benefits by RBK.
A talk on cycling at parents open Evening.

School’s Garden

Add a compost bin that the canteen can use
To make a wood log pile

NEWS SECTION:

Save the Earth voted to sponsor a Snow Leopard this year to replace the Polar Bear we sponsored last year. Every 3 months the club will receive up dates on the progress of our sponsored Snow Leopard so come along if you would like to know more!

Sustainable Garden

The garden is coming on nicely, with a new wooden sign and bird box kindly hand made and donated by Phiip Baker. Save the Earth will have a one off gardening session in the next couple of weeks to bring the garden up to scratch for winter, and it will be then left until spring.

There are four sections:
Herb Garden
Vegetable plot
Wild garden
Drought resistant plot

We hope to put in a compost bin, a wormery and lots of bulbs that will make the garden look even more beautiful!

Christmas Stall coming soon!

We will be selling hand made Christmas cards and decorations, with all the proceeds going to our charity of the year which will be voted on by the members of the club and announced on the 17th November.

Watch this space for more news.

On the 24th November we have Pauline Williams coming in to take a club session with Save the Earth on Fairtrade, including fun games and activites.

Downloads

Quiz

The million trees project (powerpoint)