“Let’s be eco-friendly”

Signs around the school

Els Pins school has been labelled with signs to remind everyone to be

Eco-Friendly. All the signs were written in Catalan – our official

language – and in English – the language of the Comenius project. The

children in the Eco-teams, with the help of their classmates, were in

charge to put them in the correct place, depending on the message:

turn off the tap (in the toilets); switch off the lights (in all the

classrooms and offices); look after plants, flowers and trees (in the

garden), etc. Now there is no excuse for not being Eco-Friendly... and

remember that every little helps!!!

TURN THE TAP OFF TANQUEU L’AIXETA

Comenius Meeting

On September the 20th all the children and teachers in the school

welcomed our Comenius friends from

Swansea and Vanërsborg. The Eco-teams

organised a tour around the school to

show them all the Eco-friendly actions

that we carry out. They even visited the

vegetable patch of the school!!! After

that, we all joined together in the playground and sang for them the

song of the project – “Save our planet” – and the

song of Pinòs. In the afternoon the teachers had

a meeting and Mr. Wadel, an architect - dad of

two girls in the school -, talked about the

“Westborough Cardboard School” It was very interesting!!!

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“Let’s be eco-friendly”

The next day some teachers went to El Prat de Llobregat with our

special guests to visit “Centre Esplai”, a new

and modern building considered an example

of sustainability.

Healthy snacks at school

Every day at 11 am children have a break and go out to the

playground. It’s important to have something to eat because our body

needs energy to do all the activities: read, study, do

sports... That’s why we ask children to bring a

healthy snack, for example, a piece of fruit, a

juice, some cereals or a sandwich to eat during the

break. But, it is also important to try to reduce the

amount of litter that we produce so we try to bring our

snacks in a tupper ware® or in a cloth’s bag. In that way

we avoid using aluminium foil or a plastic bag to put it in

and we don’t fill the bins in the playground everyday.

Agenda 21 Escolar.

Once again some children from our school, this year were Ignaci

Souto, Andrea Ribera, Alex Smith, and

Andrea Illa from Year 4, went to the City

Hall to sign on the project “Agenda 21

Escolar”. It is an action plan inspired on

the principle of sustainability. We’ve

been participating for the last 5 years!!!

GREEN MAGAZINE Escola Els Pins October 2010