Schools

Read all about our work with Fir Tree School.

Fir Tree School have begun an amazing project. Sam Settle and Karen Butterworth, Sustainable Wallingford members, are working with the school to create a vegetable garden in their school grounds. Not only will this provide fruit and vegetables for the school meals, but class 3 are spending an hour each week with Karen and Sam planting, weeding and learning about all aspects of their environment and local food.  If you think you could help Sam and Karen please contact Karen at .  For more, click here.

Start the year with Christmas

Our first activity of 2005 was to gather up used Christmas cards from the local primary schools. Thanks to the support from all the children these cards were reused on in activities though out the year at Sustainable Wallingford events and on the Wild Waste Show Bus (visit www.northmoortrust.co.uk for more details).  

Local Global Connections

Fair Trade was the focus for 2005 assemblies for the local primary schools. A group of Year 10 students from Wallingford School planned and led the assemblies with support from Schools Group Members – the assemblies raised issues about our links with local producers in other parts of the world, through the food we eat. Bananas were used to illustrate the problems many small-scale producers face, and raise awareness of the difference Fair Trade can make. 

Squonky Tubes

An amazing instrument is the squonky tube, requiring years of practise to perfect the squonk and made entirely from junk. Visiting the local summer fetes at the Wallingford schools gave School Group Members the chance to show off their junk instrument making skills and share their enthusiasm for the three R’s: Refuse, Reuse and Recycle. Children left squonking the message of waste minimisation.

Recycle boxes are now in place in the classrooms at Wallingford School – thanks to the hard work of students in the sixth form who liaised with the District Council. 

Christmas Fairs

Once again, reusing and recycling was the message. Using the Christmas cards gathered at the beginning of the year, children and adults made beautiful boxes for putting presents into and wonderful cards, printing Christmas pictures using the polystyrene bases from pizzas.