On May 22nd 2012 the Eco team held an assembly to
celebrate International Biodiversity day.
The whole school assembly was organised by Helen Hallows and
was attended by all the staff and introduced
by Mrs Meller.
We were pleased to welcome eleven geography students from
the Wilsthorpe leadership academy (with their teacher Miss Breider) who did a
power point presentation showing us the benefits of encouraging biodiversity on
our schools campus. The Wilsthorpe
students had made masks of the beneficial bugs and animals on our campus and
wore these for their presentation.
Following the presentation, Mrs Hallows explained that this
term we are focusing on biodiversity.
Biodiversity means appreciating all the plants, insects, animals and
marine life and how they are all dependent on each other and dependent on us to
look after them. On Green Day (June 14th)
we will be building a bug hotel in the Wildlife Garden to encourage beneficial
insects and pollinators. Classes have
been asked to collect materials for this.
Mrs Golding has created a Biodiversity display in the Family Room with
the by-line ‘Caring for all
creatures’.
Last term the Year 2 students learnt about the
rainforest. They made a film based on
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry.
We held the premier of the film in our assembly. There was much excitement! The children had drawn the animation, filmed
and edited, starred in and done the credits for the film. It has been entered in to the Derbyshire film
awards…the Daftas …and also the Coop Green Schools Revolution competition.
We finished assembly by singing our Eco song. Hopefully the children started to understand
what ‘biodiversity’ means and felt
empowered to care.
Helen Hallows
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