YPP Report 2014
THIS IS THE THIRD MEETING OF THE YPP, UNFORTUNATELY ONLY 3 MEMBERS OF THE YPP ATTENDED.
YPP TRIP TO BCU ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
We arrived at Birmingham City University at 10.30 am and joined other schools at the meeting. We began with a quiz about the environment and recycling (we each had a green, red and yellow card which we had to hold up to indicate the answer).
Shortly after we discussed eco-friendly ways in which we could change our school. One of these changes was that we could ring the council and ask them for wheelie bins, free of charge therefore we will recycle and sort materials out in plastics, woods etc.
We then watched a video that showed how global warming works and discussed things that we could reuse, like socks that have holes in them, instead of buying new ones we could just repair them.
Then we were introduced to the 3 r’s, recycle, reuse and reduce, we were paired up with James watt and Oasis Academy Bolton – primary schools. We created our own top ten tips for the 3 r’s and presented them to everyone. After that we talked about the things that we recycled in our schools and what we didn’t recycle, we said that Mrs. Linley recycles paper.
Other schools came up with ideas which I feel can be implemented at our school for example we could go around each classrooms and give them boxes to put paper in.
My sister attends the University of Law and told me that when printing they set the default to double side so paper is not wasted.
In our lessons we can ensure that all class handouts are double sided to save paper.
I think that we should carry out an inspection of the school with regards to environmental factors and then come up with ways to be more sufficient. An example of this could be inspecting the canteen kitchens to ask the staff whether they recycle any leftover food, or if they reduce items that are out of date.
We could also ask the ICT staff if they turn off all their appliances at the end of the day. We would need to do research in to whether it is more efficient to leave them on standby or turn them off.
We would like to propose that all students are actively involved in fundraising for Syria and the Philippines as other primary schools had mentioned this at the YPP Meeting.
We could have a bake sale , non-uniform day and get the art classes involved so we can sell bookmarks amongst other things , another good idea would be to bring in unwanted toys and sell them .We could open up the sale at the end of the day to family members of the school.
Thank You
YPP members: Usman, Akhil, Cairo and Thawhidur
Made By Usman Khan 8A
