FIRST PLACE IN THE SPECIAL NEEDS CATEGORY AT LINCOLNSHIRE SHOW!

Pupils from Dolphins class were delighted to win first prize at the Lincolnshire Show for their Eco-Friendly School project.

In front of an impressive display, the pupils presented to the judges all of the work they had undertaken for their project. This included:

Researching about being eco-friendly
Visiting Lion Plants to learn about growing vegetables
Visiting the Sealife Centre to understand water pollution
Welcoming a guest from Anglian Water to discuss how to save water
Visiting PC World to learn about energy ratings
Running a recycling charity shop that involved making and selling vases out of wine bottles, coral reef art work and t-shirt bags
Taking empty bottles to the bottle bank
Litter picking at school, the park and college
Setting up a compost heap
Buying recycling bins and containers for every class and putting up signs around school to turn taps and light switches off
Cooking a vegetarian meal for the whole school
Gardening and planting vegetables
Planting bee friendly flowers and making a bee house
Planning Earth Day for the whole school
Saving batteries to recycle

And If that wasn’t enough, they also provided seed bombs to grow bee friendly flowers for all of the judges before fielding some testing questions.

Pupils from Dolphins class said, “We are really excited for the trophy to be engraved with our school name on!”