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Community Links
Welcome to Leigh St Johns Infants webpage for community links. Below are some weblinks to sevices that you may find useful (free school meals, council services etc) and information about our current community project - 'eco schools'.
If you wish for any other links to be included please e mail us through the 'contact us' webpage. Thank You.
Community Links
Click here for information about free school meals.
Click here for Government information about your local council, education, services etc.
Click here for information about education.
Wigan Council website
Wigan Council Education & Schools
Wigan Schools Online- School Webpages
Sporting Links
Leigh Harriers
Leigh Cricket Club
Leigh Miners Rangers
Leigh RMI Football
Leigh Rugby Union
Premier Sports
Eco Schools Programme
At St John's we already teach the children about our environment and how to look after it. This year we have joined the Eco School Programme to hopefully attain Green Flag Status sometime next year (2009). Your child will be taking part in classroom activities throughout the year which will encourage them to ‘reduce, re-use and recycle'. You can find full details of the programme at http://www.eco-schools.org.uk/. We are focusing on litter, waste and saving energy. We are also looking at the topics of School Grounds and Biodiversity.
Projects and activities we are undertaking include:
- Year 2 - entered the Wigan Observer Competition, ‘Chew it, Wrap it, Bin it' - an initiative to highlight the problem of chewing gum discarded on the streets.
- A Litter Pick will be organised next term as part of the national priority ‘The Big Tidy Up'.
- Year 2 had a ‘Litter Lesson' provided by Wigan Council's Environmental Education Team.
- Year 1 - in the Summer Term, this year group have a topic dedicated to looking after all aspects of the environment.
PLEASE HELP WITH OUR PROJECTS
‘Generation Green' - THANK YOU to parents who have already been on line and donated ‘leaves' to school. Our ‘leaf total' is now up to 1438 but we still have a long way to go to earn our target of 14,765. Please visit the website at http://www.generationgreen.co.uk/. to pledge further leaves. There is also an Eco game on-line which your child may enjoy.
Mobile phones and empty ink cartridges - Please bring in any old phones (with chargers and boxes if possible) and used ink cartridges (not Epson) and place in the recycling box near the front entrance. The items are being sent to RNIB for re-use and recycling.
What are we already doing in school? - Currently we recycle all our school paper items, catalogues and magazines etc via a company who shred and recycle the items to be remade into paper products. So far this term we have saved 9 trees by recycling old paper. School also recycles toner cartridges from printers and the photocopier.
We have just received our green bins from Wigan Council which means we can now recycle all our cardboard, which is a lot!
- Following a meeting with the Environmental Team at Wigan Council, we will be getting a raised allotment bed built in our wildlife garden in the near future. The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers will be installing this for us.
- With the Asda ‘Go Green' vouchers we ordered and received a bird box with built in camera. We are hoping our nesting blue birds will return in spring and use the box.
- The new school council had their first meeting this term. They discussed how the school will develop their ‘Eco Code' and how to ensure the whole school community is aware of what we are doing in school to work towards our Green Flag status.
ST JOHNS INFANT SCHOOL
ECO SCHOOLS PROGRAMME - ACTION PLAN 2008/09
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Topic area / waste
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Who responsible
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Completed by
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Waste
Paper recycling
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Whole school staff and children
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4 recycling boxes located round school by Sept 2008
On-going recycling weekly / boxes emptied monthly for recycling
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Waste
Cardboard recycling
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A Jones - Caretaker
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2 green bins ordered and received in school from local authority - Oct 2008
- other ways t o be looked at by June 2009
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Waste
Ink cartridges / mobile phones
Compost Bins
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School community
J Williams
J Williams / A Jones
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On-going project noted on weekly newsletter to donated phones and ink cartridges for recycling
Spring 2009
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Litter
1. Litter lesson from local environmental education services
2. Enter local awareness competition for chewing gum litter
3. Litter signs to be displayed around school
4. Fruit bin for afternoon play
5. Litter pick
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Year 2
Year 2
Year 2
Whole school
Whole school
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1. Litter lesson given to Y2 by local authority - Oct 2009
2. Entered by 7.11.08 - awarded runners up - see display in year 2 classroom
3. to be done by end of January 2009
4. Already in place and used by all children
5. Spring or summer term 2009 - resources to be used from ‘The Big Tidy Up'
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Energy / Water
1. Signs to be displayed around school
2. Eco-documentary to be made about saving electricity and water
3. light and taps team to check not left on around school
4. Monitor of energy bills
5. Register with Generation Green
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Year 2
Year 2
School council
J Williams
J Williams then whole school community to be encouraged to take part to get tips on saving energy and collect ‘green' gifts for school
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1. to be done by end of January 2009
2. to be done by end January 2009
3. By March 2009
4. Ongoing - report for end May 2008
5. On - going until target reached
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Bio Diversity / school grounds
1. Asda Go Green vouchers
2. Raised allotment bed for wildlife garden
3. Community / school garden and allotment area
4. Register with ‘Morrisons - Lets Grow' scheme
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L Corbett - class teacher
J Williams
J Williams to liaise with local council
J Williams
Pauline Jones
Lilian Worthington
Environmental Services Team - Wigan Council
J Williams
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1. Collected summer term 2008 - order placed and received for bird box with web cam Sept 2008
2. to be installed FOC by end December 2008
3. Large project which needs funding. Bid to be placed by end March 2008
4. Order items by Jan 2009
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Other actions / activities
1. Eco School Assembly
2. Eco Schools notice board
3. Eco Display
4. Eco web page
5. Daffodil planting day - awareness of growing bulbs plus also a charitable cause
6. Earth Day
7. Year 1 - ‘Saving Planet Earth - Do one thing' - topic
8. Eco documentary
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Delivered by Wigan Council
J Williams
J Williams
J Williams / N Whalley
J Williams
J Williams / all school staff
J Wyper / J Worthington - Y1 teachers
Year 2 staff and pupils
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1. Sept 2008
2. Sept 2008
3. Dec 2008
4. Nov 2008
5. Nov 2008
6. April 2009
7. July 2009
8. Jan 2009
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