Puddletown First School Your WorldMy WorldOur World
Out and About
This area was unused and looked very
boring
By building a pond and putting in plants and different habitats
we have attracted lots of wildlife that we can study.
Wildlife pond area
Tadpole spotting!
Although very new, the pond has become home to many species
of planet and animal.
Nurturing nature
As well as this log pile we have a stone pile and a bark covered area in which all sorts of organisms thrive.
Saving the planet
Lots of us cycle or scoot to
school
Collecting
rainwater to water our fruit
and vegetabl
es
All our fruit and vegetable peelings
are composte
d
The Year Four Ambassadors collect the paper for recycling every
Friday
Energy Efficiency
• We held a competition
• To design the best poster
• Reminding us to turn out the lights
• The winners are displayed around the school
Edible playgroundRaised beds
We grew strawberries, beans, beetroot, lettuce, sweetcorn, carrots, and much more.
Tending and sampling
We planted, watered, weeded and eventually ate our produce. It was
all delicious.
Scarecrows
Reception recycled their old clothes, making scarecrows to frighten the birds from the edible garden.
Fairtrade
Waitrose donated a selection of Fairtrade food from around the world. Year Four set
up a stall in the playground (making
hot chocolate from the Fairtrade cocoa and sugar) and everyone had a tasting session.
Yumm!We learnt that there are
3000 Fairtrade products from fruit to
footballs.
Our Links with SDA Primary School Tafo Ghana
Our two schools have joined together to sing a song in Twi and English and Humphrey has produced a film of us both.
We continue to enjoy learning about each others lives and cultures.
.Our envoy
between the two
schools
Puddletown Bear
They have shown us the cocoa
plants growing in their village
Chocolate Facts
• In Britain we eat 16Kg of chocolate each, every year!
• 2 million Ghanaian farmers grow chocolate.
• By buying Fairtrade chocolate we can help our friends in Ghana to get a decent price for their cocoa.
School Council We have all worked hard to
improve our outside environment. The school council takes ideas from each class and discusses
them. Enabling many of the ideas to be implemented.
Outside Environment
Parents shelter An area within the
playground to be calm and quiet
Wildlife area
named by one of our pupils
A safe place for our two wheeled transport
School/Community
Notice board
What shall we call it?• We ran a
competition to name two of our newly refurbished outside areas.
• The quiet area was renamed the ‘Zip it Zone’.
• And the nature area,
‘Butterfly Bus stop’.
Playground Tubs
Impressive Improvement
This area was hardly used and looked untidy.
Now we have this play trail which we all love to use.
Unbelievably, this was a tatty swimming pool! Now it has been transformed.
The addition of this shelter has enabled Reception to extend their classroom activities outside, even when it is raining.
Inside School
Our library carpet
Hall Display
Healthy eating display
One of many posters
Rights and ResponsibilitiesEach class made a banner to represent a right.
This is Education and Play.
We made our own Rights and Responsibilities for lunchtimes.
These are Year Fours.
A display we took to the
DASP Voice Works concert.
The United Nations Rights for Children are displayed throughout school. Inside and out.
Whole School Recycling March
We all made banners and flags encouraging us all to recycle. We
spread the word throughout
Puddletown!
Arts W
eek
20
09
Recycling songto the tune of Drunken Sailor
What can we do to save our planet? x3All day every day Reuse and recycle
What shall we do with our old glass bottles? Bottle bank and recycle.
What shall we do with our carrot peelings?Compost heap and recycle
How shall we get to school in the morning?Scoot to school no cars needed.
What shall we do with our lights left on?Switch them off save the power
Composed during Arts
Week
Healthy EatingLearning about what is good for us and
where our food comes from
We have had several cook and eat days when
the whole school has contributed to cooking a
healthy lunch.
We have then all joined together at lunchtime to enjoy our delicious food
and each others company.
Some of the produce we have grown ourselves!
Book Bonanza Recycling
Cookery
Multiculturalcommunit
yfeelingsEnergy Savinggardeni
ngRights and Responsibilities
Stand Up, Speak Out
World Resources
wat
er
You and Me
Thinking of OthersIt’s about justice and solidarity not pity
Every year the children bring in shoe boxes full of gifts which are sent to children who won’t be as lucky at Christmas.
Children in Need bring a bear to
school.
Operation Christmas Child
Christmas Cards
• Instead of sending each other Christmas cards we have been encouraged to donate what we would have spent on cards to Oxfam Unwrapped.
• So far we have bought goats, cows, seeds, tools, paid teachers salaries and bought books for schools in areas of poverty.
And think of all the
paper we saved as well!
Comic ReliefWe raised
over £570.00
We did
somethin
g funny
for
money
Helping tackle a wide variety of problems that poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable people face across the world.
All Of This
helps us consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of the decisions that we make on the local and global community, in
the future as well as now.
We can all make a difference