Moorlands Primary School

ECOBlog

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  • Published 18/05/17, by Louise Swift
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    WOW Challenge

    We would like to invite all our families to try our WOW Challenge for the months of May and June...   The idea is to "WOW", that is to "Walk Once a Week" . you can walk anywhere and for any reason, but we would like to hear about it! Please ask your child to add th...
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  • Published 18/05/17, by Louise Swift
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    Transport Survey

    Meteors have recently conducted a survey of how we all travel to school. We have looked at the class sheets and wanted to say WELL DONE to 2C who had the most children walking to school, 4C with the most cyclists, and Happy Hearts for the most children scooting to school.  Well done to all t...
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  • Published 11/05/17, by Louise Swift
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    Busy Meteors

    Some of Meteors had volunteered today to lead a few upcoming projects:  It will soon be our "WOW" Week (Walk Once a Week), where we encourage our families to try to walk somewhere at least once a week. We recently did a Transport survey, and collected data on how our children come to sch...
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  • Published 02/05/17, by Louise Swift
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    Assessment time!

    We have had our Green Flag now for 2 years, and this means we are due for another visit from an ECOschools assessor. They will check if they think we are still doing enough to keep our Green Flag status, and will hopefully award us a new one, as ours has not enjoyed the wild Yorkshire weather, and i...
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  • Published 09/03/17, by Louise Swift
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    New hedge!

    This afternoon Meteors ECOteam worked with Mrs Swift & Miss Anderson to plant 100 hedge saplings. 
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  • Published 07/02/17, by Louise Swift
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    Planting daffodil bulbs

    Mrs R and her gardening club spent this afternoon working hard outside to plant a big bagful of daffodil bulbs under our flagpoles, then helped dig holes and plant 9 apple and pear trees for the school cooks to use in their cooking (eventually!!)
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  • Published 07/02/17, by Louise Swift
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    The Big Dig

    Please read our ECOgarden News to find out more about a fabulous group of adults who gave up their afternoon today to work on some outdoor jobs. One job was to prepare holes for 100 tree saplings to make a new hedge on our site. Read on for more about this:
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  • Published 02/02/17, by Louise Swift
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    Mayor visit

    Today Meteors were delighted to welcome the new Mayor to our meeting. She spoke about her role and anwered some tough questions about ECOtopics from our members.
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  • Published 12/01/17, by Louise Swift
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    Looking after birds in winter

    Meteors ECOteam made bird feeders today.
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  • Published 23/11/16, by Louise Swift
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    Energy Week

    Our Energy Week began on Monday with assemblies by the Moorlands Meteors (ECOteam) and each year group has planned age-appropriate activitities during the week to learn about energy, electricity and the impact it has on the Earth.
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  • Published 15/11/16, by Louise Swift
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    Energy Week

    Our ECOteam ("Moorlands Meteors") have invited all classes to join in our 'Energy Week', from 21st to 25th November. Our aim is to think about how we use and could save energy both in school and at home.
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  • Published 20/10/16, by Louise Swift
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    Bye Bye chicks!

    Look how they've grown! Our chicks have now outgrown their tub, and have left home to move in with a friend of one of our teachers who has the outdoor space they need as they grow into adults.
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