Throughout November, we’re challenging everyone to complete 6 small carbon cutting activities at home with friends and family.
These actions will reduce your everyday carbon emissions and benefit our planet.
How many can you complete?
Eco Club
Corrie Primary School receives RHS Gardening Award!
The children in school have continued to grow their own fruit and vegetables. Some of the delicious strawberries were sold at the Summer Fair and we have received amazing compliments about them. As a result of the gardening, school have received a level one, RHS School Gardening Award.
Habitat heroes!
Children have been taking part in the National Education Nature Park’s programme. This empowers children and young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature’s future. They have recently taken part in the ‘Habitat Heroes’ where they identified places for wildlife that we have on our site, and mapped them on an interactive map.
Sustainable Art Awarded!
It was fantastic to welcome The Worshipful, The Civic Mayor of Tameside, Councillor Betty Affleck, to school. She spoke to all Keystage 2 children and presented our year 5 children with their ‘Keen to be Green’ arts award.
The children have been working with a local artist, learning how to create artwork in a sustainable way.
Let’s Go Zero
It was fantastic to welcome Danielle from Let’s Go Zero to school today, supporting us on our commitment to raising the profile of environment and sustainability at Corrie Primary and Nursery School.
After meeting staff and governors, Danielle met our Eco Committee and talked about our school’s carbon footprint.
The children were then able to identify that one of the school’s main carbon footprints is due to travel to and from school. The Eco Committee then suggested that children could walk to school, car share with pupils that live near them or use public transport to help reduce our footprint.
City of Trees
It was fantastic to welcome City Of Trees to our school last week. City of Trees plant trees to create better, greener places; to boost health and wellbeing; to enhance green skills; and to tackle the climate and biodiversity emergency.
Many of the children were proud to have the opportunity to help plant the trees around our school grounds. We are looking forward to watching them grow and hopefully harvesting some fruit from the fruit trees!
RSPB Big School Birdwatch 2024
Children participated in the RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch 2024. It was fantastic that more species were identified on school land this year. The ongoing conservation work in our Forest School area is having a positive impact!
We have been awarded The Woodland Trust’s Green Tree Silver Award!
Due to the continued efforts of the children in school, our school has been awarded the Silver Award on The Woodland Trust’s Green Tree Schools Award!
The children have been out in the cold planting trees to help improve the school grounds and the environment and also learning about the tradition of tree dressing!
Growing our outdoor classroom!
Children in school have enjoyed taking part in Forest School and are gaining an increasing understanding of the importance of trees. They help with our mental health, provide habitats for animals and absorb CO2 which is a cause of climate change.
The children have been helping to plant more trees around school, to continue to improve our grounds and to grow our outdoor classroom for the future.
