ECO-SCHOOL
In addition to helping our children to care about each other, we also encourage them to respect the environment. We received the Bronze Eco-School Award to recognise our achievement in working towards a sustainable lifestyle.
Environmental Officers
| A group of our Year 2 children also work as our Environmental Officers. They work hard to think of ideas to make our school more eco-friendly. Recently, we have been part of a project to become a 'wilder school' in collaboration with Cheshire Wildlife Trust. The Environmental Officers also support with whole school initiatives to encourage recycling as well as raising money for our school. Current projects include recycling ink cartridges and taking part in Bag2school collections to recycle clothes and raise funds for our school. |
Our Environmental Officers helped to organise a Bag2school event, the money raised will help to improve our school environment.  |
Empties Please
Our school is part of the ‘Empties Please’ recycling programme. We collect used ink cartridges, which are sent to be recycled and raise funds for our school in the process. We have a collection point in school which any original branded toners and any ink cartridges can be accepted for recycling. By recycling more, our school can earn ‘green rewards’ which can be used to redeem exciting resources to support our children with outdoor learning and ensuring we have a beautiful outdoor environment.
Bag2School
At Cobbs we take part in regular clothes and shoe collections with Bag2School to raise funds for our school. By recycling unwanted clothing, we encourage our children and school community to raise awareness of clothes recycling and reuse and helping the environment by ensuring good quality textiles don’t end up in landfill. The more we recycle, the more money we manage to raise for our school.
Saving Paper
We communicate by e-mail with all parents and carers who request it. This has resulted in a significant saving in the amount of paper we use! We also have paper recycling boxes in all our classrooms and offices.
Water Recycling
At The Cobbs we are very conscious that water is a valuable and precious resource. That is why we have installed two water butts. These enable us to collect and recycle rain water, which would otherwise be wasted, and to use it for watering the plants in our growing area/kitchen garden.
The Wild Garden
The school has a well established Wild Garden which has been improved and made more accessible for children by the provision of paths, benches, nesting boxes and bird hides. Fruit trees and flowering plants help to make the area an ideal habitat for a range of birds and insects, and we are also visited by the occasional squirrel! The children enjoy helping to encourage birds to come into the garden by keeping the bird tables and feeders stocked. The area is often visited by pupils in the school and is regularly used as a cross-curricular learning resource.
Outdoor Growing Area
Cobbs' children have always grown plants in the classroom environment as part of their learning and we have our very own Vegetable Garden. Amongst other things we grow broad beans, runner beans, potatoes, carrots, rhubarb and strawberries, all of which will be used by the school when they are harvested. The flowering plants, which have been planted alongside the fruit and vegetables, attract the flying insects needed for pollination and also provide a welcome display of colour! We always welcome any support from parents and grandparents who would like to help with gardening around school.
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