Recycling update!

We have been doing such an amazing job collecting the crisp packets and chocolate wrappers for Terracycle that we have stopped 15,060 crisp/popcorn wrappers and 2,680 chocolate wrappers going to landfill!!!

We have also stopped toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes, used pens, batteries and prescription glasses going to landfill by taking them to local drop off points. These are then boxed and sent to Terracycle for recycling.

A great big thankyou to everyone for helping us make this world a cleaner healthier place to live in. 

Please keep them coming in (in separate bags please)

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Our Eco Team has been awarded a grant of £149.50 from Pontypridd Town Council to purchase litter pickers.

Meet our new Eco Team who have been selected by members of their class. They will be encouraging our school and community to recycle a variety of items and decrease the amount of waste going to landfill sites.

We are currently selecting our new Eco Council for Autumn 2019

Crisp packets

We have teamed up with Terracycle to collect empty crisp/popcorn/pretzel packets. These packets can't be recycled at the kerbside and ultimately end up in landfill.
Terracycle sort, shred and wash the packets. This material is then made into hard granulated plastic granules. These granules are then used for different products such as fence posts and benches. We have already collected an enormous amount of packets through children's lunch boxes. This is an ongoing collection so please keep the packets coming in.

Easter egg competition

RCT are running a competition to see which school can recycle the most Easter egg packaging. Thanks to you we have bags and bags of packaging in readiness for the weigh in.

We are recycling batteries!!!

We are recycling batteries for a competition. What a lot of batteries we've had!! Thank you everyone! Keep them coming in....

Christmas Card Recycling

We have been collecting Christmas cards for a recycling competition with RCT.
Here is our big weigh in!!!!
Thank you everyone for your support.

This is our Eco Team.  We have been busy carrying out environmental questionnaires around the school.

This page is currently being updated

we are still here and still recycling!

We have been a little quiet over the last year but we haven't forgotten our ECO code!

We have met and discussed various things that are going on in school and making sure that we are still trying hard to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

We are still recycling prescription glasses including prescription sunglasses, batteries, paper and plastic.  If you do have any glasses or batteries please bring them into school and ask your children to put them into the correct recycling box which is situated in the middle block.

We are currently finishing off our tin men made of used food tins which will be used in our allotment in September.

We have started planting!

We have started planting in our garden tubs.  Before we started to design and plant we broke up the earth and aerated it. We used garden hedging to separate the planter.  The seeds we planted were a variety of different flowers to encourage the bees and butterflies. We mixed the seeds with a small amount of sand and then we sprinkled the seed mix into the centre of the planter.  We had lots of fun and are looking forward to seeing the seedlings growing.

Gardening Club

Our ECO Gardening club is now up and running.  Our first meeting will be on Monday 31st March. 

Recycle your batteries!

We will soon be having a battery recycling box in school in the middle block.  If you have any household batteries that are ready to be disposed of, please don't throw them in the bin, recycle them in school.  They contain metals that we need to reuse. As an alternative to ordinary batteries try using rechargeable batteries, these will save you money and unexpected trips to the shops especially at Christmas and birthdays.

New Bins!

After a meeting in October 2013 with ADA training 4 new bins were ordered for a recycling area.  They are very smart and colourful. They have our school logo on them and are bilingual.

Our trip to the tip!

We were invited by Rhondda Cynon Taff's Streetcare Team to visit their Recycling plant in Bryn Pica, Aberdare to see exactly what happens with our rubbish when it's collected.  We were all amazed at the scale of the site and what rubbish was thrown away that could be recycled.  We had a go at a mini version of a sorting facility which was a lot of fun! We realised the importance of washing out your recycling items because all of the recycling is sorted by hand.  We had a quiz with Mal who asked us lots of questions about recycling and what we thought the recycled items were turned in to. We did very well answering the questions but we also learnt a lot.  We had a tour of the site and when we went to the tip we weren't aloud to get out of the vehicle because the smell was awful! We were shocked that people threw out so much when it could easily be recycled into something useful.  We are going to look at what we throw away in our school  and try to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as we possibly can.  Take a look at our photos below.

Talking to Governors and Parent Forums

On Monday 11th November Holly Nash and Ethan Evans talked to the Governing Body and Joel Jones and Chelsey Smart talked to the Parents Forum on Tuesday 12th about the Eco Council. They talked about what has been achieved and what we plan to do next.  Our next Eco Council meeting will be to discuss voting for a Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer and Secretary.

Our first meeting in Autumn 2013

We got together for our photo and talked about a recycling point in the school.  We will be having the main recycling point in the middle block hall. We are recycling plastics, paper and card as well as clothing. We will be decorating our recycling area with posters about the importance of recycling.

Thankyou Price and Co!

We would like to give a great big thankyou to Price and Co. Gelligaer for donating a substantial amount of top soil. 

The Eco council can't wait to get their hands dirty and start planting!

Thankyou Sainsburys!

We would like to give a great big thankyou to Sainsbury's for donating a large selection of planting kits.  This coupled with the top soil from Price and Co. is going to keep the ECO council very busy indeed!