How we spent our £50 voucher?
Back in October the JTAs sent postcards to Boris Johnson and the Local Council about their hopes for the our environmental future. As a school we started recycling pens and other plastics to reduce landfill. Southampton City Council gave us a £50 voucher for our ideas and work we do. We decided to spend it on encouraging more birds into our garden and we researched what we needed.
We bought 2 bird feeding stations and bird food. During JTAs we put them together and then put them in the garden. They have shown to be very popular with the birds!!! We will need to go out once a week to make sure the feeding stations are topped up with food.
Walk to School Week 16th-20th May
We will be joining thousands of children across the UK to celebrate the benefits of walking during Walk to School Week (16 - 20 May 2022). Walk to School Week is organised by Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking as part of their National Walking Month campaign each May. Families are encouraged to walk, cycle, scoot or ‘Park and Stride’ for the whole week to see the big differences that come from small steps, from healthier and happier children to fewer cars outside the school gates. This year’s challenge, PowerUp, will engage pupils through video game-inspired design, encouraging them to travel sustainably to school every day of the week.
So the weather looks perfect this week for actively travelling to school and leave those cars behind making outside our school gates a safer and healthier place for everyone.
The JTAs ran a competition to design a poster to promote active travel. They chose these two amazing posters because of the important messages they displayed. Well down to everyone who entered. The JTAs will be putting up copies of these posters all around the school this week so take a closer look.