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.
Tuesday 26 June 2012
Green Calne Day
The Art of Recycling
This art work was produced by some of the students from school. The individual letters having been made using a process called "locker hooking". Each square has been made by using a variety of recycled materials from crisp packets, (crisps eaten and packets washed!), plastic bags and waste material.
Currently displayed in Calne Library:
Plant Sale
A successful day in which the Eco group raised £42 selling plants. This has enabled us to purchase more compost, gardening gloves and organic, child friendly slug slime......to stop them eating our plants!
Friday 1 June 2012
Greenhouse
The School now has a greenhouse, which is already full of seeds and young plants. The tomato plants that were planted by the year 11's a couple of months ago are now about 1ft tall and looking really healthy. We have cucumber, butternut squash, corgettes, peppers, chilli's, gourds, pumpkins, garlic, onion, lots of different herbs which will be used by food tech, and a variety of flowers that are being grown for the Calne in Bloom, Queens Diamond Jubilee flower competion that was won by
Sophie King 9BB
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