ECO meeting Tuesday 6th March 2018
REGISTER
No Apologies
Mr Burgess welcomed all the reps to the meeting. Following on from the snow and rain Mr Burgess asked the reps how the weather conditions affect us. We discussed flooding and the amount of building on green sites. Mr Burgess introduced the idea of bringing nature indoors and showed a short powerpoint presentation about IKEA’s competition to design an indoor nature space.
Mr Burgess asked how can we make a green space in our new school?
Do we use recycled materials to hold plants or as a new school do we design another way to bring nature inside?
Children were told the options of making a model, drawing a picture, photograph or painting their idea. It’s the idea which wins, not picture.
Children saw some pictures of innovative use of green space indoors as inspiration. It was agreed that each child would draw an original design of their own choosing for next Tuesday and meet at 9.30am in the ICT suite to briefly share these ideas and decide on a winning design. All children would then draw their own version of the design and we would submit these to the competition.
We have also signed up to recycle pen and ink materials as part of the BIC writing instruments recycling programme. We have applied to become a BIC community champion location which means people could drop off their recyclable stationery into school but are yet to hear if we have been accepted. We will in the meantime, we will design our own recycle box, decorate it and ECO reps will encourage pupils and staff to recycle pen materials.
Mr Burgess closed the meeting after 10am and our next meeting will be in the ICT suite Tuesday 13th March at 9.30 for only 15 minutes to choose our favourite design.
If any children in classes are desperate to submit their own ideas they can do so before Tuesday’s meeting and we will consider all entries.
https://www.terracycle.co.uk/en-GB/brigades/the-writing-instruments-brigade-r