KS2 Eco Club
Welcome to the St. Marie's Key Stage 2
Eco Club webpage!
We are an Eco School and are
Green Flag Award holders!
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING - WaterAid
As part of our Green Flag Award, we decided to raise money for WaterAid and our own Eco Club water saving projects.
On WORLD WATER DAY (22nd March 2024), the whole school either dressed in blue or wore something blue and donated £1 each.
Half of the money we raised will go to WaterAid and the other half will be used by Eco Club to buy a water butt and ollas to help us conserve and reuse water in our school.
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING - Dogs Trust
Last year, the Dogs Trust came into our school and told us all about how to care for dogs and how to keep safe around them.
We have a HUGE 'School Dog' outside Mr McRae's office, which we though needed naming!
We decided to hold a fund raising event to collect money for the Dogs Trust.
Eco Club's Trip to the Laudato Si Centre
Eco club were lucky enough to spend the morning at the Laudato Si Centre at Wardley Hall. The centre is an education and outreach mission that generates environmental hope, rooted in the belief that we can all make a difference through the actions we take.
We visited the gardens and woodland and were inspired with more ideas of how we can follow Pope Francis’ call to ‘Care for Our Common Home’ in school.
We will take action through our Green Flag award work and implement these ideas over the coming months.
Watch this space!
THE BIG GARDEN BIRDWATCH
We took part in the Big garden Birdwatch and watched out and recorded all the birds we saw for 1 hour. We then submitted our results on the RSPB website and these will be counted up, along with the other, nationwide results.
The overall results will be release mid-April!
THE FEAST DAY OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
St. Francis of Assisi is the Patron Saint of animals.
To celebrate his feast day, which is 4th October every year, we decided to look after our local wildlife.
Last year was such a success, that we decided to make bird feeders again. We will hang them up in our outdoor classroom area.
We hope the birds enjoy them!
BEAUTIFUL!
St. Marie’s - early one morning!
AUTUMN IS HERE!
Look at our beautiful trees on the Key Stage 1 playground changing colour. They are just stunning!
Keep checking them to see how they change!
THE FEAST DAY OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
St. Francis of Assisi is the Patron Saint of animals.
To celebrate his feast day, which is 4th October every year, we decided to look after our local wildlife. We made bird feeders in Eco Club and hung them up in our outside classroom area.
We hope they enjoy them!
2021-2022
SUNFLOWERS FOR UKRAINE
HABITAT HUNT
We took a stroll around the school grounds to see what habitats we have. We realised that there are many more than we thought!
We then researched more habitats and have lots of plans to introduce more in the future!
Here are some of the habitats we found ...
BIRD FEEDERS FOR ALEXANDER CARE HOME AND ST. MARIE'S RC PRIMARY SCHOOL
We made some bird feeders, using lard, bird seed, apples and sunflower seeds. We shared them with our friends at Alexander Care Home!
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
We collected lots of natural objects from the school grounds and used them to make eco friendly Christmas decorations - the glitter is even bio-degradable!
WILDLIFE AREA
We want to develop this part of the school grounds into a wildlife area. Here we are having a look around to see what we already have and what ideas we can come up with to develop it!
We had a visit from a gardener, who looked at the area we want to develop into our wildlife area, listened to our ideas and gave us lots of other, really exciting ideas!
BRITISH WILDLIFE COMPETITION
We entered a British wildlife competition - here are some of our entries!
2020-2021
The Big Garden Birdwatch
Hello Eco Club!
We hope you are all keeping safe and working hard during lockdown!
We heard about the Big Garden Birdwatch taking place this weekend and thought of you. It is happening from Friday 29th January 2021 until Sunday 31st January 2021 and you can do it at ANY POINT this weekend. All you need is an hour! Click on the link below and it will take you to the instruction page:
https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/everything-you-need-to-know-about-big-garden-birdwatch/
Once you have done the Big British Birdwatch, all you need to do is send in your results online. Just scroll down to the bottom of the webpage on the link ABOVE and click SUBMIT YOUR RESULTS. Easy peesy!
We have attached some documents below to help you identify the birds you see and also a HOW TO GUIDE.
If you click on the link below, there is also a nice little quiz - 'Which garden bird are you?' Take the quiz and let us know! We will do it too!
https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/which-garden-bird-are-you/
There are also some tips and advice from a famous photographer called Ben Andrew, who will tell you how to take the perfect photograph of the birds you see during the Big Garden Birdwatch. We'd absolutely LOVE to see any photographs you take.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/photographing-the-birdwatch/
Good luck and happy bird spotting!
KS2 Eco Clubs have been hard at work making bird feeders ready for the winter.
Seed planting - Eco club have planted flowers seeds in egg boxes to grow seedlings that we can plant out in Spring. We are also have a friendly competition to see who can grow the tallest sunflower... watch this space!
Bird Feeders!
Eco club have been busy making Bird Feeders out of recycled materials. We researched designs and used recycled materials to make our 'Bird Themed' Bird Feeders. We hope the Birds enjoy using them over the cold winter months! Here are some photos.
Eco club had a fantastic time making our own Bug Hotel 'Bug-ingham Palace'! Thank you so much to all the parents and carers who sent in items for us to use. We hope you are as impressed as the bugs who are enjoying their stay!
Eco club have been really busy tidying the inner garden and planting bulbs in our new planter.
We have fish and a very shy frog in our pond.
Planting our vegetables
Welcome to Eco Club!
Eco club have made bird feeders to look after the birds during the winter months.
