Orleton School Level 3 video

Following our single use plastic audit as part of Clever Schools Plastic award level 2, which found we throw away A LOT of plastic whiteboard pens, our eco-reps have been trialing whiteboard crayons (see link below) in some of the classes and they love them; they're easy to use, don't stain uniform, easy to rub off & much better for the environment. They haven't even sharpened them yet, but each class has thrown away approx. 13 whiteboard pens!

Each crayon is the equivalent cost to 5 whiteboard pens and are made from recycled wood.

Following a campaign by our eco reps the school SLT have now agreed to scrap ALL whiteboard pens for the following academic year and all classes will be using these crayons so NO MORE PLASTIC WHITEBOARD PENS. What a great result for our eco-reps, our school and our environment! CTLH4994[1].MOV

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A letter has also gone home with all pupils to ask our families to help us reduce our single-use plastic usage (see attached).

As you can see, we are encouraging our families to reduce plastic use by:

-No single use plastic bottles in school. Instead, we are encouraging reusable metal or hard plastic bottles only. This includes at our upcoming School Games events and sports days when we will no longer provide the children with bought water bottles as in previous years.

-No single use plastic in packed lunches. Instead, we are advising parents/carers to use reusable containers or tin foil

-No single use plastic bags for forest school and swimming kits. Instead, we are asking parents and carers to use reusable shopping bags to keep muddy boots and wet costumes contained.

As you can see from the pictures submitted, we no longer gave pupils bringing in cling film, plastic sandwich bags or single-use water bottles.

We are still working with our on-site externally run catering company to request they stop providing single-use yogurt pots and instead serve yogurt in bowls. We will notify you as soon as we have reached an agreement with the catering company.