This is an eventful, day where our school will celebrate a united effort to bring to light what we can do to help our planet!
Green day in school!
On June 21st, in our school, we shall be celebrating ‘Green Day’.
This is where children will wear green in honour of our planet, hence going Green!
The school will allow children to find ways and solutions to bring Green Day to light.
DONATIONS! how this works.
There are elected Parliamentarians within the school, who are divided into four families. Each family has a different role and responsibility in achieving their targets.
One of these families is the Environmentalists, aka ‘Team Green’.
They will be preparing for Green Day, and one of the challenges they will set is a litter-picking competition. This is one of the fun events in Celebrating ‘Green Day’ in school!
The donations of £1 will go to elected charities that indirectly do lots of work to help our land, rivers and wildlife!
As it is Green Day, children will be involved in fun outdoor activities that address anything to do with nature, woodland, and ponds, and save our spaces from litter and discarded rubbish!
To promote this eventful day, the children will pay £1 for the privilege of wearing ‘Green’
Green is the colour that reflects a healthier environment for our children to live in!
BE MORE AWARE!
An event like this would allow children to be more aware of their environment, and living conditions, within our parks, forests, rivers, and around and about us, typically on our streets, and sometimes in our playgrounds!
Check out this short video on the 3Rs.
We have to work together to make that difference.
Furthermore, making more effort to stop dropping litter and recycling what we can, to reduce the amount of waste that builds up on landfilled sites.
By reusing, saving, up-cycling and being inventive with our waste.
Thinking ahead by implementing the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
WHAT’S THE ANSWER?
LET’S SHOW SOME RESPONSIBILITY!
- Always dispose of your litter in public bins; if there are none, take your rubbish home and dispose of it in the appropriate dustbins.
- No chucking litter out of the car window.
- Re-use your drinking bottles, refilling bottles with more water.
- Use coffee/tea flasks to cut back on paper coffee cups.
- Recycle plastics/bottles/milk cartons/packaging.
- Recycle all papers/cards/cardboard.
- Recycle any reusable packaging.
- Recycle clothing, pass on to Family/Relatives/Friends/Clothing banks,/Charities.
- Make items from old Clothing, like patchwork blankets, and weaving.
- Re-use old clothing if damaged to clean with.
- Check out recycling facilities for used takeaway packaging.
- Use available recycling bins for fast food/coffee cups.
- Protect our wildlife/sealife from rubbish/plastics/bags that can ultimately harm them.
- No fly-tipping, protect our embankments, streets, canals from unnecessary unwanted furniture, and rubbish, that clutters our walkways, making our scenery ugly and open to vermin and disease!
MY INTENTION!
As a habit, I save and recycle practically any type of packaging.
I held on to items of rubbish that may be used, especially for the children in my Art Club, who can utilise any packaging for their creations.
The list is endless, they range from cereal boxes to drinking cartons, milk cartons, coffee, tea, fizzy drink containers, sweet, biscuit boxes, egg boxes, inner cardboard tubes and more!
WHAT I DID NEXT!
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I instructed the children that we were to build a ‘Man’ or a robotic man, let’s call him the ‘Green Man’, then I had the children draw a robot or something that would resemble a man.
I poured at least three bin bags full of rubbish onto the floor, instructing the children to choose pieces that they could use to create parts of the ‘Green Man’.
Some would build a head, others the arms or legs and the last group the torso.
RESULTING!
The children stacked on top of each other all the boxes and containers and bound them with sellotape and hot wax.
Once the children had built all their body parts, we lay them on the floor, building the shape of a man/robot, and we held all parts together with more tape until we created the final ‘Green Man’
A REMINDER!
The ‘Green Man’ is made completely with recycled material.
Children from years 3 and 4 (ages between 7 and 9 years old) enjoyed this activity, as when you look beyond all that rubbish, you can see a robotic type of man!
THE MEANING OF GOING GREEN!
Celebrating ‘Green Day’ in school is to show love and care for Mother Earth.
The green denotes fertility, prosperity and greenery, where we should take care of the environment, as it is our responsibility!
The air we breathe, the land we live on, all our greenery, forests, and parks. rivers, streams, oceans, wildlife, and sea life, and to love and cherish Mother Nature and the rebirth of new life!
SUSTAINABILITY!
So what does sustainability in schools mean?
It is about becoming more energy efficient and reducing the school’s carbon footprint.
Whereas, it can include waste management, energy conservation and teaching sustainability.
In hindsight, we must act now to conserve and ensure we have enough resources for future generations!
FINAL NOTE!
Let’s respect our planet, as the ‘Green Man’ reminds us of the amount of throw-out we use, and how much rubbish accumulates over time.
If we all make some effort, no matter how small, we would be helping our planet, making rubbish more sustainable and saving our trees, wildlife, and sealife from being destroyed!
Oh, and not forgetting, any one of these eco charities would more than welcome your kind donations, which would help and promote the right help for the survival of wildlife, and show love to our planet!