Tasis: TASIS Wildlife Club
Each Wednesday, 20 children from 3rd and 4th grade (aged 8-10) meet for Wildlife Club with Lower School teacher Wendy Gediman. We have been learning about British wildlife. The students have looked at habitats for a variety of animals, and how mankind has changed the natural habitat of these animals. Students have had the chance to see live animals every other week in the…

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Queen Elizabeth II High School: QEII High School have been busy finding wonderful, imaginative and exciting ways to raise money for their selected charities!

Asthma UK - sponsored car wash/silence/bike ride, guess the name of the bear, how many sweets in a jar. ?200 raised

Manx Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals - Whole school dress as an animal day. Sponsored bike ride, sponsored…

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The New Forest Primary School: Here at The New Forest School, we have been very busy the last few years.

We have been doing/making/ involved in:

- Wildlife clubs on both sites with regualar visitors and trips out.
- Bird boxes and webcams over the years have been streamed via the birdbox project - we watched 8 blue-tits fledge one year.
- Big bird watch an whole school event - raised ?440 for RSPB…

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MILFORD PRE-SCHOOL PLUS: As part of a group of schools, sussed in the forest, ran by Gill Hickman, our children were asked to write a piece.

We talked about what might happen to our area by 2050 if we don't do anything about global warming. This started a discussion on how hot the sea where we live in milford might get to hot. The children themselves talked about sharks starting to live by the beach.…

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James Allen's Prep School: We would like to thank the Parents' Association for all their help in making our Founder's Day such a success. Huge thanks to everyone for all their hard work and support, and for arranging the amazing weather!

Founder's Day was a fantastic whole school occasion and the girls all thoroughly enjoyed taking part in their events and performances. Our thanks to the Parents'…

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Eastbury Comprehensive School: We received our free baby trees from Woodland Trust and planted about 20 around the school grounds
We planted a row of silver birch as you walk in the gate. The plan is to do this every year, so we end up with a silver birch mini forest. The trees that were left over we gave out to staff and a few students (parents' permission) to take home and plant.

In preparation how…

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Sandfield Close Primary School: Sandfield wanted to improve the environment; they wanted to make a positive difference for the people who live in the local community. We approached our local council and asked if it was possible to plant bulbs in the local park near to the school. From then on we have planted bulbs in various green spaces in the local community, cleared and planted flowers in the local…

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Dingwall Academy: The groups of children involved have been very busy over the last session with the various projects that have been carried out. Resources that have been bought and have been used for the various projects undertaken.

Video and Recording Equipment has been bought and is being used to record the work being carried out in various projects within the SYLVAE project. Pupils have been…

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Bournemouth University: We are kicking off our new year at Bournemouth University with the launch of our JGI St Luke's Primary School pond regeneration project. The St Luke's pond is a bit of a mess and so the plan is to redo it to create a wildlife pond and a small fish pond. The children did a 'design your school pond' competition and there were three joint winners, here are the finalists from each…

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New story on Roots & Shoots UK: Damers First School – Energy Sparks South West Regional and National Champions

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Papa Westray Community School: We have been finding out how people survived on our island by farming and fishing. We think it is important for the planet, to try to be sustainable and to reduce our global footprint. We realised one way to do this is by growing our own vegetables. Here is our story of growing tatties (potatoes) over the past few seasons.
Year 1: we grew 2 types of tattie, in tubs. We…

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James Allen's Girls’ School: The idea of AFFCAD UK arose in September 2014. Later that year, we officially launched the charity. One of the first events, Project Lucky Stars, raised ?671 for AFFCAD Children's Christmas Party. Overall we were able to send an astonishing ?1039 to a school, which was announced by a whole school phone call with Uganda.

To fund a sustainable chicken farm in Bwaise, a song…

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Damers First School: Grayling One's Roots & Shoots Pledge was to Trash Plastic on Poundbury. They designed posters giving people ideas about how they could become plastic free. Then they made a list of businesses on Poundbury they wanted to visit, visited them and talked to the manger of each about how they could become plastic free. Also they asked them if they would put up their posters. They were…

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Applemore College: Applemore College students enjoyed a muddy morning planting fruit trees in Marchwood Community Orchard to mark its opening.

Thanks to funding Section 106 funding, Marchwood Parish Council have created a fruit orchard in the park behind the Village Hall and St John's Church. Students from local schools were invited to plant trees and be involved in the life of the orchard.

On Friday…

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Goat Lees Primary School: Our School's Roots & Shoots Eco Group were invited to the 'Eco School's Environmental Forum' which was held at the Mayor of Ashford's chambers on the afternoon of Tuesday, 29th March. The children were extremely excited to be chosen to attend such an event, and for the opportunity to be meeting Cllr Callum Knowles, the Mayor of Ashford and Claire Norman from Ashford Borough…

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Westhill Primary School: Our Primary 7's have been very busy this term practising our woodwork skills! We used lots of tools to build homes for the birds, bugs and bats who live in our local area. We then worked with our local ranger to find the best places in the woods to put them. We found out that the bird boxes should face south to keep them nice and warm! We are going to keep an eye on them over…

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Balgreen Primary School: It's that lovely time of year again! The beautiful tree in our garden has started to blossom. All of the classes at school have been looking very carefully at it and doing all sorts of work. There's some fabulous art work, writing and science going on. Primary 1 have been reading The Frog Prince so decided to create their own crowns using natural bits and bobs they found in the…

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Crompton House CofE School: The Roots & Shoots group has been running for 5 years.

This year a lot of the focus has been directed towards cancer awareness. ?700 was raised for Marie Curie. A garden was dug over to spell the word HOPE and the children planted daffodils in the word, so that they would bloom every spring. Additionally a book of memories was written and printed - full of the memories of…

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James Allen's Girls’ School:

JAGS girls really spread the Christmas love and to Ugandan children that appreciated it most in 2015.

Miss Parker took one for the team and nominated herself as Santa Claus to take out all the beautifully hand crafted parcels to the AFFCAD Christmas party which went down, as imagined, a huge treat! Definitely worth the excess baggage costs.

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Damers First School: Two children represented Damers Eco Crew at the Ideas2Action Recycling Awards at Poole Civic Centre on Friday 28th September. The children spoke in front of over 100 people about the recycling work the school has achieved in the past year. This included setting up Refill Poundbury, recycling printing cartridges, writing instruments, biscuit/cracker wrappers and their national award…

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