Saving Energy

Our aim is to show how schools can save energy.

The keys to saving energy are: reduce, reuse and recycle

What is reducing?

• Did you know that every person uses 4.6 pounds of waste per day?!

• 4.6 p is almost double the amount used 35 years ago.We need to reduce waste!

• To us reducing, means to reduce products and materials we use.

• We can reduce what we use by only buying things that we need, not things that are going to go to waste.

Reducing in our school

• At wet play we use scrap paper. Now both sides of the paper have been used.

• When we leave our classroom we turn the lights off. If it’s bright we don’t turn on the lights. This helps reduce energy.

Reuse

• Reusing means less waste is produced.

• How can you reuse?

• Reusing is simple

• Just be creative and think of new ways to use old things. For example, use film canisters as glue pots!

What we can do to reuse?

• After we use paper we put it in a scrap paper tray. We have one in every class.

• We also have a tray next to the photocopier so we can reuse it.

REUSING!

Recycle.

• What can I recycle?• You can recycle things

like paper metals cloth and glass.

• Where can you recycle?

• Find a recycling bin in your area.

• How does recycling work?

• First gather everything we don’t need.

• Sort them out into piles and take them to a recycling bin ready to recycle.

Recycling in school.

• Put paper in the recycling bin.

• Pick a monitor to put the paper in the school recycling bin.

• One person in year 6 will put the paper from our school recycling bin in the public bin.

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Can you help us?

• These are the things which we do to save energy in our school.

• When we do these things we are helping our school and the whole world.

• We can help more people if you Reduce Reuse and Recycle too.

Thames View Juniors !

Lindsay Baldwin

Ronald Carter

Jade Ronayne

Jodie Jacques