CPL group trip to Under the Sea at London Leicester Square IMAX cinema

A group of children from a variety of different Community Partnership Leader groups were invited to watch the nature documentary film Under the Sea.

The documentary was all about the coral reefs and oceans of Southern Australia and how human impacts of pollution are damaging their ocean wildlife and ecosystems.

The children who attended will be spreading the messages to the rest of their CPL teams to encourage all of us to work together to help do our bit for the environment.

They also met some lovely commuters who were really impressed with their conduct and behaviour during the journey - well done all!

Year 2 - Save the Oceans!

To begin our English topic this term, we looked at some photographs of the world’s oceans. Unfortunately, we noticed that many of the photos showed lots of plastic pollution in them and ocean animals under threat! We were quite shocked!

Did you know that plastic waste from humans ends up in our oceans? It takes 500 years for a plastic bottle to decompose in the ocean!

Acer Class have decided we need to make a change and persuade others to help the ocean environment!

Look out for our persuasive texts and posters in the next few weeks! what could you do to make a change and stop plastic pollution now?!

Eco Squad's first meeting of the year

On Friday 27th September Eco Squad members from the Manor Way site met to discuss what environmental issues we can focus on this year.

The first thing discussed was single-use plastic bottles; Eco Squad visited the Manor Way classrooms to do a spot-check and found over 40 single-use plastic water bottles being used in classrooms. We discussed the benefits of buying a reusable bottle made from more durable plastic that can be used for many many years.

ECO SQUAD WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO CONSIDER BUYING A PROPER REUSABLE PLASTIC DRINKING BOTTLE FOR USE IN SCHOOL, INSTEAD OF BRINGING IN SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BOTTLES.

The next thing we discussed was litter in the local Plumstead area; we hope to do litter picks in the local area in the near future to help keep our community clean and tidy, so today we had a quick practice in the playground picking up leaves (before the rain came!)

WE ARE GOING CAR-FREE ON FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2019

 

Polish school partnership - Pollution in Poland

Some children from Grade 5 (equivalent Year 6) at a school in Poland called Zespół Szkolno-Przedszkolny w Chynowie got in contact with Mrs Seaton, after they heard about our local area & pollution-themed photography competition. They wanted to see what our local area is like and what kinds of pollution problems we suffer with in South East London; their school is in a village called Chynów, which is in a rural area approximately 40km from Warsaw (capital city). They have sent us some pollution-themed photos from their town. It looks like they have a problem with litter and fly-tipping... what could they do to help stop this?

It is hoped we might exchange letters with this school in the future and work on some more projects together - tell your International Team rep(s) about any ideas you on how we can collaborate!