Puddletown First School Your WorldMy WorldOur World

Out and About

This area was unused and looked very

boring

By building a pond and putting in plants and different habitats

we have attracted lots of wildlife that we can study.

Wildlife pond area

Tadpole spotting!

Although very new, the pond has become home to many species

of planet and animal.

Nurturing nature

As well as this log pile we have a stone pile and a bark covered area in which all sorts of organisms thrive.

Saving the planet

Lots of us cycle or scoot to

school

Collecting

rainwater to water our fruit

and vegetabl

es

All our fruit and vegetable peelings

are composte

d

The Year Four Ambassadors collect the paper for recycling every

Friday

Energy Efficiency

• We held a competition

• To design the best poster

• Reminding us to turn out the lights

• The winners are displayed around the school

Edible playgroundRaised beds

We grew strawberries, beans, beetroot, lettuce, sweetcorn, carrots, and much more.

Tending and sampling

We planted, watered, weeded and eventually ate our produce. It was

all delicious.

Scarecrows

Reception recycled their old clothes, making scarecrows to frighten the birds from the edible garden.

Fairtrade

Waitrose donated a selection of Fairtrade food from around the world. Year Four set

up a stall in the playground (making

hot chocolate from the Fairtrade cocoa and sugar) and everyone had a tasting session.

Yumm!We learnt that there are

3000 Fairtrade products from fruit to

footballs.

Our Links with SDA Primary School Tafo Ghana

Our two schools have joined together to sing a song in Twi and English and Humphrey has produced a film of us both.

We continue to enjoy learning about each others lives and cultures.

.Our envoy

between the two

schools

Puddletown Bear

They have shown us the cocoa

plants growing in their village

Chocolate Facts

• In Britain we eat 16Kg of chocolate each, every year!

• 2 million Ghanaian farmers grow chocolate.

• By buying Fairtrade chocolate we can help our friends in Ghana to get a decent price for their cocoa.

School Council We have all worked hard to

improve our outside environment. The school council takes ideas from each class and discusses

them. Enabling many of the ideas to be implemented.

Outside Environment

Parents shelter An area within the

playground to be calm and quiet

Wildlife area

named by one of our pupils

A safe place for our two wheeled transport

School/Community

Notice board

What shall we call it?• We ran a

competition to name two of our newly refurbished outside areas.

• The quiet area was renamed the ‘Zip it Zone’.

• And the nature area,

‘Butterfly Bus stop’.

Playground Tubs

Impressive Improvement

This area was hardly used and looked untidy.

Now we have this play trail which we all love to use.

Unbelievably, this was a tatty swimming pool! Now it has been transformed.

The addition of this shelter has enabled Reception to extend their classroom activities outside, even when it is raining.

Inside School

Our library carpet

Hall Display

Healthy eating display

One of many posters

Rights and ResponsibilitiesEach class made a banner to represent a right.

This is Education and Play.

We made our own Rights and Responsibilities for lunchtimes.

These are Year Fours.

A display we took to the

DASP Voice Works concert.

The United Nations Rights for Children are displayed throughout school. Inside and out.

Whole School Recycling March

We all made banners and flags encouraging us all to recycle. We

spread the word throughout

Puddletown!

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Recycling songto the tune of Drunken Sailor

What can we do to save our planet? x3All day every day Reuse and recycle

What shall we do with our old glass bottles? Bottle bank and recycle.

What shall we do with our carrot peelings?Compost heap and recycle

How shall we get to school in the morning?Scoot to school no cars needed.

What shall we do with our lights left on?Switch them off save the power

Composed during Arts

Week

Healthy EatingLearning about what is good for us and

where our food comes from

We have had several cook and eat days when

the whole school has contributed to cooking a

healthy lunch.

We have then all joined together at lunchtime to enjoy our delicious food

and each others company.

Some of the produce we have grown ourselves!

Book Bonanza Recycling

Cookery

Multiculturalcommunit

yfeelingsEnergy Savinggardeni

ngRights and Responsibilities

Stand Up, Speak Out

World Resources

wat

er

You and Me

Thinking of OthersIt’s about justice and solidarity not pity

Every year the children bring in shoe boxes full of gifts which are sent to children who won’t be as lucky at Christmas.

Children in Need bring a bear to

school.

Operation Christmas Child

Christmas Cards

• Instead of sending each other Christmas cards we have been encouraged to donate what we would have spent on cards to Oxfam Unwrapped.

• So far we have bought goats, cows, seeds, tools, paid teachers salaries and bought books for schools in areas of poverty.

And think of all the

paper we saved as well!

Comic ReliefWe raised

over £570.00

We did

somethin

g funny

for

money

Helping tackle a wide variety of problems that poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable people face across the world.

All Of This

helps us consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of the decisions that we make on the local and global community, in

the future as well as now.

We can all make a difference