BEST       ( Bentley Eco Schools Team)

BEST - Bentley Eco School Team The John Bentley School in Calne has an Eco Group called BEST, we are a group of students who think about the environment and look at ways we can be more environmentally friendly and promote sustainability within our school: We meet every Wednesday Lunchtime at "The Drop In" upstairs in Science.

Monday, 31 October 2011

Calne in Bloom Competition

Calne in Bloom Competion:  

The competition this year was to create a flowerbed design.  The competition was advertised around the school, it was for all Calne kids upto the age of 16.  We had a great response around the school with one tutor group really taking up the challenge, their hard work paid off because 4 students from that tutor group won.  First Place was awarded to Sylwia Gral, runner up Luke Child and Commended go to Jamie Cooper and Kai Workman.  






Overall Calne won Silver Gilt in the SW in Bloom competitons!

September 2011

We have a few new members who have joined the group this month,  some of our new members were eco helpers in their last school and are keen to continue, and some students have heard about the group in school and come along to get involved.

We have also started a project with the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust,  they are working with the school on a topic about "Waste".  We have had a tour of our local landfill site, we have seen what materials can be recycled and we have been looking at "packaging" and how our choices can have an effect on our environment. 


32,000 ALLUMINIUM CANS
1,500 PLASTIC BOTTLES
STEEL CANS



TEXTILES
CARDBOARD








This term we have the following events:

14th November - School litter pick THE BIG TIDY UP, where we have invited students to volunteer to help litter pick, we will investigate the sort of litter we have around school and whether we could be recycling more of it, and if so how. The students will then feed back to the whole school about their findings and how we could reduce and recycle their "Rubbish".

19th November - Get Your Grown ups Growing,  we will be getting our grown ups to help us with some gardening, planting some bulbs and providing opportunities for them to plant some seeds to take home with them. 

21st November - 4th December: Switch off Fortnight Event: this will be our second "Switch off Fortnight event, so watch this BLOG!