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Difficulty getting ‘outside’ help
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Contact a local allotment committee to help
Send a letter home asking family if they have any time.
Ask parents and friends / advertise
Letter home, school website
Pay friends and family to help with things in the garden.
The probation services, they did the garden with us.
Wildlife trust
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Not everyone is eating healthy snacks
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Provide a range of healthy snacks
Only allow fresh fruit to be eaten at play times
Before children go out to play, check if they have fruit.
Send a letter to say to bring something healthy in lunch boxes, no chocolate!
Award for healthy lunch box.
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Compost is not being used
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Have a monitor for each class to put peelings in the compost bins each day.
Make people aware of the compost bins.
Put up a sign and put mini compost bins in each class.
Use the compost bin every lunchtime in the canteen and create large posters for it.
Start learning about recycling and composting in the nursery so that the small children use the compost bin all through school
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Drinking water being wasted
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Bring your own water bottles to school.
Cup dispenser
Have proper cups in the class.
Get water fountain or water tower.
Put a poster below or above the water fountain to say ‘don’t waste water’.
Poster to remind people.
Only fill bottles half full at the taps.
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Not everyone turns off the lights
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People to go around the school at dinner time with something to say who has forgotten.
Have an electricity monitor.
Rewards/points for the best classroom.
Get monitors and punishments/rewards. Name and Shame assembly.
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People don’t use the correct bin
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Ensure bins are distinctive; Colour, shape, symbol
Put up a sign saying what should be put in each bin with pictures.
Make a clear sign and label bins.
Compost bin on the yard every play time and have a recycling bin in every class.
Yard buddies to monitor the bins
Have a competition to design bins for paper, plastic, cans and compost etc.
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Other pupils are not recording data correctly (for monitoring times the toilet is flushed)
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Have a class tally sheet instead of in toilets.
Toilet monitors
Only Eco-Committee to monitor for competitions.
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Maintaining momentum with the programme.
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Give people different roles and change them regularly.
More rewards and interesting rewarding.
Have more competitions and going on more trips.
Lots of different activities.
Getting other people to help
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Time – clashing with clubs/lessons/ assemblies/lunch
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More Eco days per term
Have some Eco-Clubs
Let club members go to lunch first earlier.
Have a time table with the teachers and the children and display it.
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Pupils are bringing fruit/veg to get points but not always eating it.
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Get people to eat by making a smoothie
Fruit of the week
Reward points
Teachers bring fruit and veg in for children to taste
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Energy/water not as exciting
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People to come in and do some workshops and show them how fun it can be
Monitor of the week/fortnight! (wins a prize)
Go round daily Y4-5 for energy and water
By recording it and doing spot checks – making it fun
Prizes for kids
The best year group wins a prize e.g. Shield, extra play time or extra IT time.
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