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!