Sunflower Competition

Will all participants of the sunflower competion please measure their sunflowers and hand the results in centimeters into the office/Pam/Annette by 20/09/11.

The winner will be announced at the first eco club meeting this term and also here.

Please measure even if the storm has kicked down your sunflower or its has started dying down. We will only need to measure the length of stem from on top of soil to where the stem enters the flowerhead for the tallest sunflower, and the diameter of the seedhead (not the yellow petals) for the biggest head.

Please leave your sunflowers to develop their seeds, the birds in your garden will thank you.

Good luck!

Litter, litter, litter

On our second committee meeting we conducted a survey outdoors to find out just how big the issue is:
It is BIG! We found 142 pieces of litter, but not only crisp packets and sweetie wrappers as you would expect to find in a school. NO! Our survey teams found beer bottles en masse, and also, in the car park, cigarette ends. Meaning that not all adults seem to be the positive role model they are supposed to be.
For the sake of our health and the environment, can we ask everyone to please keep Crosshill Primary healthy and tidy and be a good role model for the children?

School has begun and Eco Committee has started

It is nearly three weeks now that school has started again, feels like we have never been off....

The school has now regular hands on committee meetings every week when all pupils can choose a committee of their choice to take part in. We have 10 pupils on the eco committee and three adults.

During our first meeting we decided to concentrate on achieving the Green Flag for Crosshill. For this to happen we have to work on three topics of which one has to be "Litter". The second topic we chose to work on is "Bio-diversity" as we are well into this one already with our masterclass last year, the variety of habitats we have already started and all the planting we have done. The third topic we chose is "Food" - here we have already prepared the way last year by raising money to buy fruit trees, making raised beds and planting our own fruit and veg (and were they yummy!). Kids who did not even want to plant peas ("yuck I am not planting peas - they are disgusting") were very very keen to harvest them and proclaimed the to be absolutely delicious!

So we are looking forward for the eco club to start again to get all those things that need be doing in the garden done before winter puts an end to it.