Yester Primary Green Group

Meet the Green Team

• Chair: Kara,
• Secretary: Murron
• Publisher: Catriona
• Eco-link Officer: Orianne
• Communications Officer: Paddy
• Litter & Recycling Officers: Isaac & Daisy
• Energy Co-ordinator: Isaac
• Water Co-ordinator: Catriona
• School Grounds & Biodiversity Officers: Conal & Robin
• Finance Officer: Mrs Thomas

We have already been busy planning what we would like to achieve this year and have chosen our three topics for the year. They are:

• Litter and Recycling,
• Water,
• Food and the Environment

Litter and Recycling

Within this topic we are going to organise regular litter pick to keep our school grounds tidy and hope to organise a whole school litter pick too to send the message of zero tolerance of litter to the whole school community. We are also going to target inside our school as we often find litter in classrooms, especially milk straws and also paper towels in the toilets. The group have also come up with the great idea of having waste free lunch days.

Water:

Within this topic we are looking at our water usage, how we can save some water, what use we make of our rain butt and if it’s located in the best position. As well as water usage in class; do we all have access to water in class and what happens to the left over water at the end of the day.

Food and the Environment:

We have lots of great ideas for this topic and this is going to be our main focus. We have already ordered some orchard fruit trees, we have applied for a grant to help towards making a kitchen garden so that we can grow vegetables, herbs and fruit for our kitchen to use. We are also hoping to make a plastic bottle greenhouse so that we can extend our growing season and grow some more exotic vegetables. We are also going to  investigate the food waste from the dinning hall and kitchen, looking at how our new band system is working and if we can reduce food waste further.

School Grounds Monitoring:

We also need to undertake some grounds maintenance to ensure that the wildlife area, wetland and newly replanted memorial garden thrive. We have been asked to take part in the Open Garden Scheme in June so it will be even more important to ensure our wonderful grounds are looking their best.

So as you can see it will be a very busy year for the Green Team. We will as usual squeeze in an Eco week to spread our message and will also need to do some serious fundraising to allow us to put all our wonderful plans into action.

Can we have your empty plastic bottles please?

So that we can build our greenhouse we need to collect 2000 empty 2 litre plastic bottles. Bottles must be empty and well washed out. We are hoping to get a container to put them in from the council so we will update you as soon as we have news but please start collecting now!

Plea for Volunteers!

If you have any spare time and would like to help us out with any of the following things please get in touch with Mrs Thomas through the school office:

• Ideas,
• Gardening,
• Fund raising,
• Helping to organise one of the action areas,
• Organising and collecting 2 litre plastic bottles for our greenhouse,
• Become a Green Team member; we are also looking for parent and community volunteers to become members of the team

Any help you can give us will be greatly appreciated and hopefully you’ll have fun putting something back into the school community.

Many thanks

Mrs Thomas and the Green Team