Eco blog

Tue, 19 Feb 2013

It's spring and Eco Club have been as busy as bees!

welcome to eco club's blog

We are very sorry that we have not written a blog for a long time , we have been very busy.

We have been doing flag for the future, which is making a flag to save the artic because the ice caps are melting so people think its ok to drill for oil.(bad people).  

Also maisy  &  Holly  have been filling in a form to get us £50.00 for our minibeast city.

We have also been making a sign for the conservation area.




bye for now



by edie, ruby & jasmine

Tue, 20 Nov 2012

Breathing Challenge

This is the breathing challenge!
Some of the eco team have been finding out how many times you breathe in a day  and how much CO2 you produce.
This is what we have found out so far.  
Did you know that one breath =0.5L which is 4% of CO2.
We also found out that you breathe 7 to 10 times in 30 seconds!
4% of 500ml = 20g of carbondioxide which = 1 breath.
1% = 125ml.
1% of 500ml = 5g of carbondioxide.
We estimate that you breathe 14 to 20 times in a minite.
28x2=56g.
4800g+24000g=28800g.
That is how much carbondioxide you breathe out if you do nothing but breathe - so that means you don't exercise.
So what a few of us did was figure out how much carbondioxide you breathe out if you exercise. So we doubled 28800g which = 57600g.
So now you know how much CO2 you breathe in a day!
Below is a picture showing you how you breathe in and out.

Tue, 03 Jul 2012

We raised £152.33!

Hello and welcome back to our eco club blog. We would like to say a big THANK-YOU! to everyone who bought stuff on our stand at the school fair.

It is the last week of eco club this week, until next year. We have been making cakes that are eco-themed to take home. OK, lets do the last eco review of the term.



ECO ITEM REVIEW!

By Theo Binns

Last week, we went to Cribbs Causeway and found out that you can get an eco steam car wash which cleans your car better than water and is much more efficent than using water. Prices start from £7, but can go up to £95. For the top one, the "bee's knees" you get everything you need, such as seat upholstery cleaning, a full body and interior wash and a freshener and loads more! I would give it 7/10 because if your car has crumbs on it before the wash, mould will start growing on it.

RATING: 7/10

Tue, 26 Jun 2012

Hello again!

Hello everybody.

It is less than a week until the NPS summer fete (2.00 pm - 4.30 pm), where Eco club will have a stall selling plants, crazy grassheads, a Jumble-Bumble sale and even a chance to buy some of the land on minibeast city!
Please come to the stall because this will help us raise more money for Minibeast City. Thank-you!

Did you know that it is National Insect Week this week? It is trying to teach people more about the insects around us. You can find out more here: http://nationalinsectweek.co.uk/

ECO GADGET REVIEW!

By Theo Binns

Savasocket

The savasocket is an item which, by the click of a button, forces your TV/Xbox/DVD Player off standby! They claim that it can save you £40 a year. However, the savasocket doesn't come with a remote, so you have to already have a remote and connect it up to the little sensor. This is quite tricky, even with the manual. But the two plugs for things that you want on standby, such as a TV recorder is very useful.

Rating: 7/10

Tue, 12 Jun 2012

Interesting discussions at Eco Club

Hello! We are back. This week in eco club, most of us are making amazing things to sell at the summer fair to raise money for Minibeast City.

We were also having an interesting discussion about how to power things in the future. This video is what started the discussion:

The discussion was about sunflower-oil powered cars, and how good they could be. However, Miss Malone told us that if we took down the whole school and planted sunflowers, we would barely have enough oil to get Mr Croker, our headteacher, half way home. So then we thought how we could have massive fields of sunflowers, but then we thought, 'What about all the power stations in the way?'. We wouldn't be allowed to replaced all the power stations with fields of sunflowers, even if they were used for oil.  So what do we get rid of instead?  Maura realised that that's what they chop down rainforests for!

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This is one of the very few sunflower oil powered cars in the world, called the Lotus Exige 265E. This one, however, goes from 0-60 mph in only 3.8 seconds!

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Then we thought about the benefits of solar panels.

Imagine if all towns were like this...

By Theo Binns?

Thu, 31 May 2012

This week in Eco Club

Hello everyone! This week we have finished writing the letter to the beekeeper to ask him about giving us some bees. We are also applying for a free grant for minibeast city. We are also planning for the summer fair, because we are going to be there. Also, thank-you for everyone who has been donating construction materials, but we still need a bit more - especially pallets!

Have you wondered how exactly the solar panels help the school be more eco friendly?  Then wonder no longer.  Check out our new display in the Upper School Crush hall.

Ok, now let's get on with Environmental news.

ENIVRONMENTAL NEWS - ISSUE #2

Do you remember the Fukushima nucelar plant disaster that happened last year? Well, off the coasts of California, scientists have found Bluefin tuna with radioactive contamination on them. They guess they must have came up from Japan to the coast of California (The way the waves from the tsunami were going). Here is a picture from the BBC website of it:?

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If you want to find out more click here.

Wed, 16 May 2012

Bug city launch, and some environmental news

AN EXCITING, NEW ENVIRONMENTAL DEVLOPMENT FOR BUGS...

An exciting new bug city is now undergoing development! It will be located in the grass patch by the new staffroom, spare classroom and the Y2 classes. At the side of the page, you can see some of the pictures that gave us ideas. We are going to be raising money for it - stay tuned to find out how you can support or even own a piece of our bug metropolis. 

ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS - ISSUE #1

By Theo
Hello, and welcome to Environmental news. You might have thought all animals were good for the environment, but you were wrong! There is a snake that scientists have found, called the Brown Tree snake, which is affecting the ecosystem. Find out more by clicking here.
Remember to keep checking the eco blog for more updates, and see you next time!

Tue, 08 May 2012

This term in Eco Club

Mon, 05 Mar 2012

The Big Pedal is underway!!!

After a modest start today and an information session in assembly, we're looking forward to seeing everyone cycling and scooting to school tomorrow, and for the rest of the competition.

Don't forget - parents count too - so get the whole family cycling to school.

And if there's a lock on your bike at the end of the day - don't worry - you haven't been clamped!  Take your bike or scooter to the office where we'll unlock it and give you one of our fantastic prizes. 

These include stickers, bike locks, lights, bells, hi-vis, t-shirts and even a bike helmet!

Visit 

www.thebigpedal.org.uk for more information.

 

Tue, 21 Feb 2012

The Big Pedal

In eco club we are getting ready for the Big Pedal.

 The Big Pedal is when we will be cycling to school as much as we can for 15 days.  We'll try to get our parents involved too.

Last year there were more than 800 schools competing int his event around Britain. We race against each other to see who can cycle virtually around Britain the fastest.  We are competing with 9 other schools in Bath and North East Somerset.  Do you think we can win?  We need everyone to cycle!

Don't forget our posters competition.  We would like you to design a poster to promote the Big Pedal.  Send your entries to 4m NOW.

Tue, 17 Jan 2012

Eco club is BACK!

Fri, 09 Dec 2011

Autumn Term at Eco Club

Tue, 01 Nov 2011

What was Green day like?

We did all sorts of things on Green Day such as: making bags, making apple juice, making eco banners, seed bombs, apple cooking, and poetry. Here is a picture of one of the eco bags:

If you own this bag and you're reading this, you must be chuffed to bits!
It is the first Green Day that Newbridge has had!

We hope to do this every year, as it was very very fun!

We hope you all had fun on green day!

And from environment club, a big Thank-you! for joining in and having fun!! ;-)

by Theo, Paris and Leon

Tue, 11 Oct 2011

Eco Club is back!

We now have lots more people than before!
We are planning an eco day soon. We are going to do loads of interesting things, such as:

-Making an eco greenhouse out of bottles

-Making an eco bag out of an old t-shirt

-Designing posters about global warming

The greenhouse will look a little bit like this picture below:

Tue, 14 Jun 2011

Newbridge Eco Club gets underway!

The brilliant Newbridge eco club is now open!!

Tue, 22 Mar 2011

Parents Go Green

At school last week the energy team held a parents meeting which lots of parents attended! In this meeting we explained all about what we have done in the past few months and what they could do at home to save energy.

Some of the things YOU could do are:

• Keep lights off in the day ( it’s light so you don’t need them on).
• When you boil your kettle make sure you boil only as much water as you need. (Did you know your kettle uses 20 times as much energy as your TV! It's one of the most energy greedy things in your house!) It saves you water and energy.

If you do this it could save you up to £250 a year!!!!!

In the parents meeting we handed out different leaflets and a poster for all the parents! Kathy Tate, B&NES Sustainability Officercame and explained how the council can help YOU to save energy. We also showed the film which we also showed to the KS2 and our demonstration of what happens if you don’t save energy!

The upper school are still doing really well saving energy and now nearly every class have won the golden light bulb at least once. Now we're focusing on reducing our electricity use in the upper school week on week. Have you seen our arrow and posters in the crush hall? have a look and see how we're doing this week.

Mon, 07 Feb 2011

5L snatch the golden light bulb by 1 point

Thu, 27 Jan 2011

Recently the Energy Team have been doing lots of exciting things such as being on the radio, being in the newspaper and being on the news. We all went to the Guild Hall where we showed other schools what we have done so far, we even showed the film we made! We were also presented with a certificate by the Counciler Gerrish. We've proved our point and now the school are saving it really well! We need to continue though and we are going to hold a parents meeting soon so we hope you can come..... for further details they will be in the newsletter soon!

Thu, 20 Jan 2011

White paper recycling

Hello from the White Paper Team.
(The white paper team are working hard to collect all the used white paper in the school so that it can be recycled.)

As you may have known, there are three bins - one for rubbish (small black), one for white paper (big metal one in the lower school and a short green one - in the upper school) and one for coloured paper (cardboard bin in lower school and upper school) - but some of the bins aren't as good as we would like. Once we found rubbers, pens and sharpeners in a white bin! White paper that we would like in the white paper bins are things like newspapers, backing paper, border paper, plain white paper, paper with writing on and paper with paint, pens or pencils on. If you have anything but the paper listed in your bins we will not take it!

from the White Paper Team (Lizzy, Eleanor and Katerina)

Thu, 20 Jan 2011

Energy Team

The Energy Team kicked things off last term and have been busy trying to make the school a greener, more energy efficient place ever since.

After spying on the Junior School energy behaviour and measuring how much energy we were using in Term 1, we sprang into action after half term.

We put up lots of signs and posters all around the junior building, reminding people to turn electrical equipment off and giving top tips on saving energy.



We spoke to people that could help us - Mr Courtney, Kay the cleaner and Mr Croker. We made a fantastic film and showed it to the whole of KS2 and we explained to them how making electricity actually causes lots of pollution and heats the whole world up.

We've kept measuring how much electricity the junior school's been using. If you're interested in finding out how much, take a look at the OWL monitor in the library. It will also tell you how much greenhouse gas we've produced and how much money we've spent on electricty since we set the monitor up.