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My group and I met yesterday for the first time. It was a great start to our project and everyone worked really well together!
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Pupils have written a letter to the Mayor of London to fund their Green Means Go Project. Pupils presented their project and ideas during a virtual meeting with the GameChangers Grant company. Pupils have been awarded the grant and they will use this to buy vegetable seeds and plants for their Green Garden Project.
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Everyone should have full tummies! Our student leadership team have been working with the Trussell Trust in Lincoln. Students at Lincoln Minster School are taking February half term to collect 9 essential items each in 9 days, to help families in need during this period of economic uncertainty.
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Our social action project is on poverty. We will be carrying out a bake sale in our school and donate the money to a charity which the children are currently searching about.
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The children are undertaking the project of raising awareness of mental health and wellbeing across the school. They have led an assembly to KS2 and are starting workshops next week in classes and physical education lessons. They have been doing a great job!
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The children have completed 3 whole school assemblies. The planning stage is complete. Currently each class are purchasing their chosen vegetable so that planting can begin shortly. The children arranged a Food Bank appeal in December also:
Our project is about…
The Spa Pupil Leadership team has decided to focus on no hunger and climate action, whereby we propose to plant fruit and vegetables at school to support the health and wellbeing of our families and wider community.
We chose this project because…
We want to support and help our families and the wider community;
- to be more healthy
- to ensure that they do not go hungry due the cost
- to design and develop an invention to help with climate action
Here are some ideas of how we will deliver our project…
- Produce posters and announce it to each class in assembly
- Hints and ideas through further assemblies
- Before Christmas- announce the project, plan what they are planting using ideas, identify roles for children in the class
- January 2023- planting and irrigation system
- February 2023- Charitable acts and recipe cards
- March 2023 onwards- produce, vegetable gift shop, charity work
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At Marlborough Road Academy we have decided to establish a community allotment as our social action. We noticed that the pandemic and the rising cost of living has made it harder and harder for members of our community to feed themselves and their families and we wanted to help. We have worked together with a local high school with pupils with additional needs to create a space in which people can grow fruit and vegetables. We have involved our school kitchen and have received donations of soil from Caterlink to help us get started. We have also worked with a Manchester based charity to plant an orchard and an edible hedge in the allotment space.
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Our social action is Mental Health. We have been looking at ways we can improve the mental health of the children within school and the wider community. The children have planned to raise money for 2 mental health charities and implement a buddy system in school to support the mental health of children.
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Our student leadership team are the Meal Makers. After discussing their values on the launch day, they were concerned about the cost of living rise and how this is affecting children and families in our local area. They carried out some research and called for help from our school catering company - the brief being wholesome, tasty and affordable meals - exploring cooking together.
The end product is recipes that our school families can use, to be shared and used to support our children to eat well for less at home.
The Meal Makers have been planning and delivering Assembly updates, to share their work
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Cravenwood’s Charitable Cuisine provides ready-to-go food parcels for those most in need within our school community. Having noticed that the recent increase in the cost of living is significantly affecting some within our school community, we decided that we could help by providing food parcels, with accompanying recipe cards, to ensure everyone within our school family can have a hot, home cooked meal every evening. Children throughout our school have donated the food items and parents have worked with us to assemble the parcels. We are now working to identify those most in need and are excited to begin handing out the parcels.
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We have identified how much single-use plastic is ending up in landfill and contributing towards climate change. As a team we have pledged to raise awareness of this and find a way to reduce, recycle or reuse some of the single-use plastic we use on a daily basis. We are now Terracycle ambassadors and have become a community drop-off point for single-use plastic items such as bread bags and sweet wrappers.
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Each of our 4 leaders are running their own small project with a team of other year 6 students. Each project is about improving the environment and sustainability of our school site.
Project 1: Planting new hedging in our outdoor sports area.
Project 2: Improving food sustainability by planting few trees and plants such as apple trees, raspberry bushes and rhubarb which can used by the kitchen and for cookery lessons.
Project 3: Encouraging small mammals into the area but creating log piles and a hedgehog house and monitoring any noticeable impact this may have.
Project 4: Creating a wildflower garden to attract insect, bees, butterflies etc.
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As an Earth Charter school we are driven to continually improve how we help our environment both locally and globally. This is an opportunity to involve our school community in working together to achieve our ‘Life on Land’ Global Goals. Our project involves:
- To make bird feeders from plastic waste eg milk bottles and place around the school grounds
- To introduce an annual whole school competition called a ‘Grow-athon’ where each class is responsible for planting and maintaining their own plant pot or outdoor gardening space in the school grounds.
So far, we have made a successful bid to the PTA who have donated money to buy 6 large planters and compost. We have also delivered a KS1 and KS2 assembly to promote our project. Our next steps are to make the bird feeders and start sourcing seeds and plants for the growing competition.
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For our project we are saving school water and producing school garden fertiliser through installation and promotion of a compost toilet.
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Our 3rd project was to hold a Used book sale! The money would all be donated to the West Windsor Hub and any leftover books would also be donated to the West Windsor hub in the Children’s entertainment Section!
Fortunately, at home, I had many unneeded books that were stuffed ay the top of my attic, and when I heard that we were holding a book Sale, I grabbed the chance and brought all 64 of my unneeded books to the school, ready for the book sale!
Other students and staff kindly donated and many books were sold. In the end, We worked that that we donated roughly 64 books+. We were all very humble at our school’s contribution and we were very proud of what we have achieved so far!
Signed: Esmé
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We have noticed how much plastic is thrown away daily as a result of our parents making us packed lunches. We are aiming to reduce the use of single-use plastic and recycle the single-use plastic we can.
So far, we have:
Identified the types of plastic we can recycle
Identify how we can recycle it
Contacted Terracycle to become a recycling drop-off point for our local community
Shared our project with pupils and parents
Started to collect plastic bread bags to send off to Terracycle
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Following their specialised training, where they learnt how to support younger students, Peer Coach Alice was eager to get stuck in "to give younger students the confidence to address environmental and social issues and a chance to have a voice."
The students tackled the issues of unused indoor and outdoor spaces and the unsustainable practice of fast fashion. Changemakers installed picnic benches, revamped the prayer room, and hosted a thrift stall for charity! The whole school supported the Changemakers and celebrated their impact.
Their teacher said: "They demonstrated that they can get themselves heard. Their survey received 150 responses, and the thrift stall received £40 to donate to charity."
"I would recommend the project to people who aren't confident at communication as it has really helped me come out of my shell." - Peer Coach
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Feeling "passionate about supporting those less fortunate", Changemakers chose to tackle food insecurity and got stuck into supporting local homelessness support charity; Signposts.
Students united in compassion with one another by exploring their shared values and identifying common social and environmental issues they were passionate about. Following this, they explored the SDGs and delivered presentations to each other on the Global Goals topic that had inspired them the most. Collectively, the group chose to focus their project on SDG 2 - Zero Hunger.
Using posts and assemblies to raise awareness, they helped the wider school community to see that everyone has a role to play and encouraged their peers to donate food items to the project if they could. This resulted in more students wanting to join in on taking local action for a global cause.
The Changemakers collected the donations and delivered these to Signposts, feeling a sense of unity and pride in the process.
Signposts said: "We are blown away by the generosity of the young people, and their donations will go a long way in helping those in need."
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Twenty-six students across 4 year groups united in compassion to improve the school community's access to green space, knowing that there are many benefits that being in nature has on wellbeing!
Despite their age differences, the students realised that they had a lot more in common they they first thought, and their anxieties began to reduce. After identifying their shared values of 'family', 'feeling safe', 'looking after animals', and 'enjoying life', they set about deciding how they could live these values in everyday life. As a result, 'Team Trees' was born!
Students learnt about the SDGs and how local action contributes to the global journey that millions of people are embarking on to achieved the Global Goals by 2030. This helped them to see that they can play their role in this global movement.
Getting their hands dirty, they got stuck into cleaning up their school garden in the hopes of making it a safe and welcoming space for the whole school to enjoy. Word soon spread, and students from across the school came to help too!
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Today we met with our groups and discussed the peer coach journey and our focuses for the ongoing weekly check ins.
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Teacher Lauren, from Folkestone School for Girls, told us how the #DirtIsGoodProject has helped her in the roll-out of a new curriculum across the whole of Year 9. The brand-new ‘One World’ curriculum aims to break down barriers surrounding culture and confidence by addressing real-world topics in a supportive classroom environment.
After exploring the Dirt Is Good Project resources online, Lauren realised that they could help her to deliver this curriculum in a less-linear, more cross-curricular way, and became a useful structure to lead students to the point of creating and delivering a social action project.
Teachers have been busy delivering one Dirt Is Good Project session per week to every student in Year 9. Lauren said, “the lesson plans and activities have helped to embed topics such as globalisation, inequality, metal health, and resilience.”
The students are currently at the planning stage of their projects but have chosen a large range of issues to take action towards, such as period poverty, the environment, and deprivation within their community.
As a result, the students are “starting to see a bigger picture of the world around them” by being supported to combine their values and ideas to then take real action on causes they are passionate about.
The most notable benefit to Lauren has been the support that the Dirt Is Good Project framework and resources has given to teachers delivering sessions on the Sustainable Development Goals.
We look forward to hearing more about the projects that the students at Folkestone deliver soon!
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Year 6 at King's Oka have been working incredibly hard to finish their projects! They have constructed their bug homes and are currently filling it with sticks and leaves to make it a comfortable environment for the creepy crawlies!
The art mural is slowly getting there. The class have decorated lots of pieces of plastic to represent different things from nature. Some students are even helping out at break and lunch time.
Stay tuned to see the final images!
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We have done most of our project! We hope that form tutors will be able to show the presentation we have made on Mental Health, protecting wildlife and Wood Green Animal charity.
Our bake sale was a great success! We raised £73.10 and can't wait to donate it.
It hasn't always been easy ding this project, but we are proud of what we have achieved. People have got stuck in and never gave up on our journey!
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We have finished our time on the DIG project :(. We've had lots of fun, but we haven't quite finished all our projects, so we will have to do this in the New Year. We also know that we can always carry on with our work too! So this isn't really the end :)
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Today, we went to the ICT suite and all logged in to the website to complete our student end surveys. We had to answer some questions about our own values and beliefs, and what we think of other people's too. We really enjoyed having a think about all of these questions in our session today! It made us really think about caring for other people and nature and how this project has shown us how important this is!
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We want to turn our Angel room into a sensory room. Our project is important because it will help everyone be calm. We will have a grand opening and an assembly then you have to book a space. It will have sensory toys, LED lights, soft furnishings like blankets and pillows. Next week we are going to see how much everything costs and write shopping list.
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We want to make a permanent change in school for children. We want to support people who feel worried/sad/anxious/stressed or for anyone who needs some quiet time. We want pillows and good teddies.
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Our session today looked at values - both individual and shared. At the start of this session, many members of Team Trees were unsure what values were and had previously associated the word value with money and diamonds.
By the end of our session, we were able to confidently identify our group's top 4 shared values: enjoying life, looking after animals, family and feeling safe, as well as thinking more about how we can live these values through things like not talking to strangers, and throwing our litter in the bin so that it can't hurt animals on the street.
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Year 6 at King's Oak have made a fantastic start to their DIG journey. They have enthusiasticlaly applied themselves to each task, have explored their shared core values and have recently begun learning about the Global Goals.
They have recognised that sadly we live in an imperfect world, but they are eager to apply themselves to come up with a project that will help their local community and environment.
Stay tuned to see what they come up with!
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With no clubs in the last week of term, the Go Green Gardening Group had a celebration event where they ate sweets and snacks, played games, and reflected on all their work and progress.
The group has suffered some setbacks, for example a storm blowing over a fence, meaning they haven't been able to access their nature garden, but the group have shown good resilience in planting things in pots indoors.
The group will continue after Easter when repairs are made and hopefully they'll be able to go outdoors more often and make real progress in redesignign their space.
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The change-o-meter shows the collective impact that students are having across the world as they take part in Dirt Is Good
Students carry out a wide range of projects, that contribute to different Sustainable Development Goals
Eradicate poverty and create a world where anyone can afford to meet their basic human needs.
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.