Room 13 Writing Blog

Room 13 have just created a special blog for our writing. We have posted some stories about the cool things we have done this year. You can read our stories by clicking on the link to 'Room 13's Writing'. We will add stories to this blog during the year so keep checking in and leave us some comments.

What can we do?

Sam shows us what's in his tray.

We are amazed at how much paper was going to be thrown in the bin!

We sort the paper into the 'Recycle' and 'Scrap Paper' boxes.

David and Albie sort out the last of the paper - good job!



After we saw how much rubbish our school produces every day we wanted to do something about it. We had a look at how much paper our class throws out. First we emptied out our trays of ALL unwanted paper onto the floor. We sorted this into different piles – RECYCLE and REUSE. Paper we could draw on the back of or use again was put into our ‘Scrap Paper box’, everything else was put into our Recycling box. Did you know that any paper can be recycled if it has no plastic or metal in it?

Our trays are a lot tidier now and we have lots of scrap paper to draw on and make things out of. When we have finished with this paper, we will smooth it out and put in the Recycling box. See if you can do the same!

Talking a load of rubbish!

Last week Sarah Langey from Waste Education Services came to talk to our school about how we can reduce the amount of rubbish we produce. We saw how much rubbish Nelson Central School made in only one day – it is a HUGE amount! A lot of this rubbish could be recycled and reused. We will have to think really hard before we throw something in the rubbish bin. A big worry was the amount of yummy food that was thrown away - whole apples, sandwiches, bars and muffins. We think children should take food home if they don't feel like eating it at school.
On Friday we are going to have a ‘RUBBISH FREE LUNCH DAY’. We could put our food in reusable containers or just put things straight into our lunchbox. Do you have any ideas how we can cut down on packaging in our lunches?