Our journey to zero carbon
This year, we have joined forces with Let’s Go Zero to help us cut our carbon emissions. This organisation offers free, friendly and tailored support to the individual needs of our school. We have developed a climate action plan and the Climate Action Advisors have been on-hand with practical solutions and ideas to help us to lower our energy bills, improve our menus and advise on making our buildings greener.
Nurturing our green spaces:
Children continue to plant hedging around our Forest School area. This boosts biodiversity, providing homes, food and shelter for lots of wildlife like birds, insects and small mammals. These flowering hedges support bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, which are essential for ecosystems and food production. They will also improve the air quality, trapping dust and pollution from the roads. The hedges will provide a natural flood control, slowing down rainwater run off and allowing the water to soak into the ground.
Composting:
Food waste from snack time is being gathered by children in school and loaded into our composting bins. This not only reduces the amount of waste we throw into the bins, it also creates natural fertilizers. The compost will become rich soil that we will use in the school grounds to grow plants, flowers and vegetables. Composting also teaches the children important life skills about recycling and sustainability alongside how nature works, including processes like decomposition.
Recycling Landfill Waste Resources
Parents, children, teachers and the local community collect waste resources for our recycling scheme which raises money benefitting the children, school, and the environment.
This scheme is run by www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk.
This community initiative is a website, network and green children's club which inspires families to live greener and more sustainable lives.
The waste resources are sent to companies such as TerraCycle, Recycling for Good Causes and Recycle4Charity. These organisations work with manufacturers who want to be responsible about their waste resources, so they sponsor our recycling scheme to ensure that the waste does not go to landfill.
Thank you to everyone who collects for William Penn, you are raising money for our children and for helping the environment for future generations.