Wentworth Eco School
Wentworth Eco School
Find out about our Eco School at Wentworth
Eco Schools Programme
Wentworth Nursery School, registered with the Eco-Schools programme, has achieved their Bronze and Silver Award, and is on track to achieve a Green Flag award. Our chosen topics are Healthy Living, Global Citizenship and Litter.
Eco Code
- Our children, families and staff all recognise the importance in looking after our environment by:
- Learning about how to care for living things, including plants and animals.
- Learning about the importance of recycling including putting litter in the bin and conserving water.
- Learning about how to keep healthy including understanding of drinking lots of water, exercising and travelling as much as possible by walking, scooting and cycling.
Eco School Committee
Our Eco School Committee members include parents; Con McColl, Mel Bunhong, Ona McCarthy, Jen Pearcy-Edwards (as listed below from left to right), and the children; AH, MM, RA, LZ.
Wentworth Nursery School Eco Audit May 2021
Wentworth Nursery School Eco Action Plan Curriculum May 2021a
Our objectives are:
Raise children’s and the communities understanding about:
- local plant and wildlife
- the importance of conservation
- knowledge about how we can protect and sustain our planet
- the importance of helping others
Bio diversity and Marine life
The children have been involved in learning about what our tortoise (Fred) needs to eat, his diet and as part of this process the children have started growing dandelions and pea shoots as well as creating his own habitat. Additionally, the spring weather has also resulted in children observing the frog spawn in our pond and taking out of the amazing transformations from egg to tadpoles and ultimately to frogs! All incredibly exciting.
Healthy Living
Some of our children have been learning about healthy living, particularly learning about foods that we can eat lots of as well as those we should only eat infrequently. Through this process our children have been learning about such terms as nutrients and vitamins.
Further information about Eco schools can be found here: Eco Schools Brief
Summer Term 2021
W/c 19th April
This week our two year olds have been exploring what plants need to grow. Some of our other children are continuing to observe the life cycle of frogs, as well as create a habitat for our pet tortoise Fred, Additionally, some of our children have also been involved in designing and building and as such have begun to explore the concepts of sustainable energy. Do look at their amazing designs!
W/C 26th April
A number of children have been learning about how to protect our environment by putting plastic in the bin and not in the sea (have a look at their posters below. Other children have been learning about the life cycle of chicks and how to care for them. Sadly one of our chicks died and our children helped to bury the chick.
W/C 3rd May
Some of our children have been learning about the impacts of plastic and not only what to do with plastic if we find it on the ground, but also have made suggestions to the staff including doing more exercise and planting more flowers and fruits!
W/C 24th May
Some of our children have been learning about the importance of exercise and in so doing finding out what our heart does and what is looks like. As part of this process, the children participating in the following:
running at speed
using a bicycle pump
and dissecting a lamb’s heart
W/C 7th June
Our children were concerned the chicks we were keeping which our children observed being hatched had escaped. The children kindly created posters as a means of trying to find our chicks.
W/C 14th June
Our Eco Committee met and discussed how we can reduce the pollution levels on our busy road. Below is some information we have found out.
Wentworth nursery school research into speed cameras and community art June 2021
W/C 28th June
Many of our children have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. See below:
