Projects start for real.

During our vist to Malawi, the teachers of the three countries involved decided that we would concentrate on the following projects during the next academic year.
1.Improve Communication between countries – Skype, Letter, E-mail etc
2.Litter – reducing litter in all schools.
3.Sustainable Energy – wind, solar, hydro etc.
4.Playground games
5.Food from different countries
6.Visit to Port Elizabeth, South Africa 2012


This week we started our litter and waste project. Our goal is to reduce the amount of waste produced by the school. Last week our eco-council collected all the waste left by children who are on sandwiches and have school dinners. We filled 12 full black bin bags - a shock to us all. Imagine this over a school year! The bin bags were shown to all the children in school and we had a long discussion about waste. Our first decision is to remove the bins from our school hall at lunchtime. This has had an immediate impact with only half a bin bag of waste collected in two days. The children and staff have made ourselves a challenge to reduce the number of bin bags per week from twelve to a maximumn of two. Next week we are also starting on our reduction of energy waste challenge. We have noted the readings for gas and electric consumption and are producing an action plan to reduce this.






Our school eco-council with the unnecessary waste produced by the staff and pupils of Ysgol Craig y Don.