Our overall aims for this Topic are:
To raise awareness of the importance of being responsible and NOT dropping litter and to take steps to minimise litter in our school grounds and local area.
To continue to reinforce important messages about the importance of reusing and recycling wherever possible.
Action
Carry out a survey
in the playground
and pitch.
Playground litter
champions will
collect litter at
lunch time.
Litter Picking
community/comm
unity day
Participate in
organised litter
pick with Sandy
Johnston from
Glasgow Community
and Safety Services
When will it be done
by? (if ongoing, when
did it start?)
How can we
monitor it?
November 2012
We will look for
areas with the
most litter and
see what type of
litter we have.
Maybe we will
need to move our
bins.
Miss Russell will
timetable classes with
the teachers. Each
class from P3-P7 will
take a turn.
Ongoing
Playground litter
champions will
monitor the
playground and
make sure pupils
are using the bins.
The litter
champions will
also use a litter
picker to collect
litter.
Mr Cunningham(PT)
will organise each
class over the session
Ongoing: Monthly
Community day of
action.
Who's in charge?
P7/6 Eco reps.
No litter
remaining on
route after litter
pick.
Litter pickers work
quickly and
sensibly.
How will we know
when we're
successful?
We will do another
spot check survey in
December,
January, February,
March and April.
Spot check surveys
will help us work out
if there is less litter in
the playground.
There will be more
litter in the bins.
No litter on routeseach class taking
their turn.
How much will it
cost?
No cost other
than ink and
paper.
Evidence
Photographic
evidence of
survey
Survey
paperwork
Pupil
conversations
Conversations
with pupils and
staff in the
playground.
Photocopying
costs
Feedback from
pupils
Litter pickers
donated from
GCC.
(Nil costs)
Photographs of
pick
Observations of
route
Feedback from
staff
Did it work?
Any ideas
for the
future?
Audit school using ‘Litter’
section of whole school
environmental review
Litter Assembly and poster
design competition
Eco Committee
class reps
Miss Russell
Eco
Committee
Miss Russell
and class
teachers to
organise
anti litter
competition
Term1/2
Term 3
Section of audit
completed and
shared with
committee at next
meeting.
Formulate action
points to include in
new action plan
Eco Committee
prepare and
present litter
assembly.
Winners of anti litter
poster to be
selected.
Share audit
results with rest
of school
pupils:
assembly
Litter audit.
Printing costs
for audit sheet
Art materials
Posters
displayed
around
school.
Ongoing
daily rota for
pupils to
recycle
paper/plastic.
Miss Russell to
contact GCC
to find out
when our
recycling is
lifted away.
Pupils can
weigh
recycling.
Photographs
from
assembly
Surveys of
litter found in
playground
We are also committed to ongoing recycling initiatives
All classes and offices to
have waste paper
recycled
Miss Russell
and Eco
Committee.
Ongoing daily rota
for pupils to recycle
paper/plastic.
Miss Russell to
contact GCC to find
out when our
recycling is lifted
away.
All classes and
offices to have
waste paper
recycled
Miss Russell
and Eco
Committee.
Increased
weight of
recycling
Continue to involve the
community with textile
recycling.
Miss Russell
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Calculate our school
waste global footprint and
try to reduce this.
Mrs Ritchie and
P5.
Continue to
use
community
recycling
bank.
Investigate
different Rag
Bag collection
schemes.
Initial footprint to be
calculated in
November 2012.
Eco committee to
work with Miss Russell
to find about waste
global footprinting
then explain to the
other classes.
Weekly on a Friday –
Eco Reps and Miss
Russell to weigh the
recycling.
Re launch our class
recycling – to be done
weekly by different Eco
Committee Members
On our Eco Noticeboard
create a display – forest or
tree - to keep track of how
much paper we are
recycling and how many
trees we have saved.
Recycling of batteries/ink
cartridges/glasses/mobiles
Recycling Eco
Committee
and all classes
Mrs Ritchie and
p5 to organise
class
collections.
Ongoing collection
beginning Nov 2012.
Termly donation to
charity.
Xmas card charity
collection
Miss Russell
and Mrs Ritchie
Sharkateria recycling
SMT, pupil
council and
Termly collection
and funds
received for
school.
Posters
created to
advertise
collection.
Nil
Weight of
material
collected.
Amount of
money
received.
Print outs from
web.
Printouts of
waste global
footprint and
associated
paperwork.
Money
raised for
school.
P5, Eco Committee
and Mrs Ritchie to
measure Alexandra
Parade’s waste
global footprint in
Nov and May.
Recycling created
and added to notice
board
Eco Reps weigh
boxes of paper each
week with help.
Weekly totals added
to recycling totaliser.
Reduction in
school waste
global
footprint.
Totaliser:
records kept
of how much
each class
recycles.
Display
materials.
Pupils to take
collection to
charity.
Mrs Ritchie to
oversee delivery.
Charities
take
collection of
good to help
their aims.
Nil
Collection of Christmas
cards after Christmas
to be delivered to
Marks and Spencer.
All classes involved in
bringing in their Xmas
cards for recycling.
Acknowledgement
from marks and
Spencer.
Xmas cards
will be
delivered for
recycling at
local Marks
and
Spencer.
From term 3
Investigate with
CORDIA – the
1000kg of paper recycled saves
17 trees so 60kg saves 1 tree!
http://www.ecofriendlykids.co.uk
Recycling is
established in
Photographs
of meter
readings etc
Display of
totaliser.
Graphs of
total
collected and
recycled.
Photographs.
Conversations
with pupils.
Fuel costs
and cost of
bags for
collection.
Photographs
and receipts
from different
charities.
Conversations
with pupils.
Photographs
of pupils
collecting
and
delivering.
Recycling bin
Photographs
of pupils
Eco
Committee
possibility of having
a recycling facility
in the dinner
school.
Sharkateria.
cost.
recycling.
Recycling to
be weighed
and
monitored –
Miss Russell on
a Friday.
Sharkateria
plastic
“totaliser”.