Barton CE (VA) Primary School

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Eco Action

Earth & Recycle symbol At Barton School we are trying to save energy, recycle, and improve our school grounds. Our school has now achieved the Silver Award of the Eco Schools programme.

Updates from the Eco Committee

Batteries
Thank you for sending in so many batteries. We have collected more than two tall tubs full. We will take them to the tip to be recycled. Did you know that batteries can be recycled and used to help make new batteries, used in the steel industry and also in electronics and for making paint?

Earth Hour
On Saturday at 8.30pm hundreds of millions of people turned off their lights for one hour, on the same night, all across the world in a huge, symbolic show of support for our planet, and we hope that some of you joined in too. As we were not here on Saturday we celebrated Earth Hour in School on Friday. We turned off lights and computers for an hour. We also went on a Spring Walk.

Leading up to Earth Hour, thinking of our planet, we have:

Tidied up the grounds and picked up litter
Planted grass and wildflower seeds on our Ladybird sculpture
Recycled the batteries.

We are concerned that most of the litter we found was snack bar wrappers. Please remember that children should only be bringing fruit as a morning snack.

From the Eco Committee
Lydia, Leo, Erin, Josh, James, Poppy and Daisy

Battery recycling

Low battery Do you remember to recycle your old batteries? This week (11-17 March) is Waste Week and we have pledged to recycle as many batteries as we can.

Please bring in your batteries that have no power left and we will take them to be recycled. We have decided to reward the children who bring in batteries with stickers.

Thank you for your help.

From the Eco Team
Lydia, James, Leo, Erin, Josh, Poppy and Daisy

We grew cabbages!

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A Thank You from the Gardening Club

Have you noticed what is going on in the garden areas? Firstly we have a lovely new bench kindly donated to us by last year's Year 6. We are very grateful for this gift and the bench looks lovely and is well used.

We are also planting some special themed borders and have had some very kind donations towards plants from parents and a whole bag of gardening gloves from Mrs Greenfield (who helps with Gardening Club). Thank you to FOBS for helping us to fund developments in the outside area. There are other plans afoot, so look out for new features and if you would like to help with any digging, gardening, sculpturing, etc, then please let us know.

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Gardening Club News

Planting the Royal Oak The Gardening Club has been very busy this term. As well as looking after our vegetables and planting spring flowers we have been growing cress in the classrooms. We have been able to use some with our school dinners. We have also planted herbs and these are growing well.