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Your Earth Hour Stories

At Willowbank, we celebrated Earth Hour with our newly elected Eco Council encouraging pupils and their families to take part in Earth Hour through an assembly and Facebook post. It has started our thinking about how what we do can benefit the environment and we are excited to carry on our work.
I am a librarian and we will be hosting a 100th birthday party for David Attenborough as part of our earth day celebrations
We have been busy sowing seeds of pollinating plants to plant in the garden and making sure there is water sources for insects/animals
We have uncovered raised beds in school. We have left nettles and brambles to support pollinators. We were shocked to hear about the Butterfly Emergency declared in 2024 by the Butterfly Conservation Society. We will plant butterfly friendly crops such as oregano, kale, dill, fennel and parsley.
We have a wonderful parent helper for our school wild gardens and allotment. Andreea is involved with a community project to plant fruit trees / bushes and insect-friendly plants in our local green space. The children have been helping her, making nesting packs for birds, tasting wild produce, etc.
I run Forest School everyday for out SEN school. The children this term have been planting trees in our forest school area and around the playgrounds. we have also been litter picking and looking at how to care for own environment. We have planted 500 trees and shrubs in total.
We have been talking about earth hour and its importance. We have been using outdoor learning and our playground to look at our natural surroundings and how we can look after our nocturnal animals when we are away from school. We are ensuring the animals have shelter and safe space to thrive.
We held an outdoor pop-up exhibition on our last day of term before Easter to show our parents the work we have been doing to save electricity at school as part of our new 84 solar panel installation. All classes had a lights/screen free Earth Hour afternoon on the same day too!
At manor School, we use our Forest School time to create an environment that makes room for nature. We build habitats, learn about the flora and fauna we share our site with and think about ways in which we can help wildlife outside of our school life. This is our hibernaculum in Forest School.
We have been working hard to develop an eco garden in our very suburban school! Each class had a different section to design.
We have recently had a "Bee Celebration Day" where we invited some local beekeepers into school. After an informative & fun assembly, the students participated in a variety of STEM activities and each class made some "Pollinator Paper" using recycled paper and wildflower seeds to take home.
At Siddington, we’ve been learning all about how we can help protect our environment 🌍 The children have been busy planting seeds and growing their own vegetables in our school allotment, taking pride in caring for what they grow. We’ve also been out litter picking, helping to keep our community

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