Fair Trade Workshop
Many thanks to the Coop for sending 2 very friendly ladies to teach us about Fair Trade. We worked as families to make paper bags which we sold to a shopkeeper. The shopkeeper paid us for the bags we made. … Continued
A trip to Ardley ERF!
On Wednesday 26th February, the Eco-Committee and the School Council went on a trip to Ardley ERF near Bicester, to learn about what happens to our rubbish. The facility began operation in 2014, treating about 326,300 tonnes of non-recyclable waste … Continued
Eco-School Silver Award
The Eco-committee are delighted to announce that due to the hard work of everyone in the school we have now achieved our Silver Eco-Award. This award is presented when the school can demonstrate that sustainability work has been completed in … Continued
Bag2school collection 2020
A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to our first ever recycling collection of second hand clothes using Bag2School! We received an amazing amount of clothes which were collected this morning and taken off for weighing and sorting. The … Continued
Councillor Norman MacRae visits The Mountains Class
On Friday 24th January 2020, The Mountains class were visited by Cllr Norman MacRae MBE, Cabinet Member for the Environment at West Oxfordshire District Council. Norman taught us how rubbish is recycled and how our landfill waste can be used … Continued
Willow Weaving!
On Thursday 23rd January, The Ocean and The Mountains Classes were able to try their hands at ‘willow weaving’. The Friends of Rollright very kindly paid for two workshops from ‘The Art Room’ and everyone was able to weave some … Continued
The Mountains Class go litter picking!
On Wednesday 22nd January 2020, The Mountains Class undertook a litter pick of Great Rollright village. Miss Bartlett organised the hire of special litter picking equipment and the class was split into three groups to cover as much of the … Continued
Achieving our Bronze Award!
After a very successful start to becoming an Eco-School, we are very pleased to have been awarded our Bronze Award. This proves our commitment to the project and celebrates the fact that we have formed a committee, completed our environmental … Continued
Recycling at Rollright
The Eco-Committee has now completed it’s very important action planning for the year. The first priority for our school is to improve our recycling facilities. So far we … have introduced food recycling across the school have organised ‘green’ … Continued
The new Eco-Committee!
This year we have decided to work towards becoming an official ‘Eco-School. To achieve a ‘green flag’ of success there are several steps which we need to achieve. Firstly the school needs an Eco-committee which will meet every half term … Continued