E.Y.E. or 'Eco, Young and Engaged', is a sustainable learning project helping local schools and young people within them to make a positive Eddie Eco Eye - E.Y.E. Project difference to their environment. Mascot NEWSLETTER July 4, 2016 ISSUE: 11 – V2 all

Contact Here is the latest newsletter from The E.Y.E. Project which will be the last for this The E.Y.E. Project: academic year.

[email protected] I hope that you find these newsletters useful for your school. To enable us to ensure 01903 237864 x242 that these newsletters are relevant and useful to local schools please do send any Project office based at: suggestions or comments to [email protected]. High School South Farm Road Worthing, West Clare Sutton - The E.Y.E. Project – Project Officer Sussex, BN14 7AR 9th Worthing & Adur Eco Summit www.eyeproject.co.uk

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The E.Y.E. Project’s 9th Worthing & Adur Eco Summit hosted by Davison CE High School for Girls took place on 21 June 2016 and was a great success.

This year 17 schools took part in the day. It was great to see pupils from the following schools enjoying the day and taking part in a wide range of fun and engaging workshops: Bramber Primary School; Broadwater CE Primary School; Thomas a Becket Junior School; Hawthorns Primary School; Downsbrook Primary School; Worthing High School; ; ; Chatsmore Catholic High School; Ferring CE Primary School; Eastbrook Primary Academy; Our Lady of Sion Junior School; Preparatory School - Worthing; Lyndhurst Infant School; Bohunt School; St Andrew’s High School; and of course Ambassador pupils from Davison CE High School for Girls. Sadly pupils from St Nicholas & St Mary CE Primary School were unable to attend on the day due to the train strike. Page 1 of 8

Many thanks to Davison CE High School For Girls for hosting the event and to the staff and pupils from Davison’s that were involved in the day. We received some great feedback about their helpful Ambassador pupils by a number of attending schools and workshop leaders alike.

The event had a Climate Change theme and Emma Pinchbeck, Head of Climate Change and Energy at WWF UK gave an interesting and inspiring Key Note Speech on 10 surprising things she has learnt about climate change in her role.

Pupils attended a range of workshops from The Southern Co-operative; Shoreham Port; National Trust Slindon Estate; Brighton & Hove Bus Co; Davison Pupils; Creative Waves; Sussex Green Living; F.A.C.E & Plumpton College; Movingsounds; Southern Water; STEM – Brighton University; Second Nature; Art Angles; Sustainable Business Partnership CIC; Weald & Downland Open Air Museum; and Lewis Crathern Kite surfer.

Here are just a few of the great pupil comments added to our feedback tree at the event of the day: * ‘Best school day ever’ * ‘It was really nice! The things we learned were useful and now I’ll find a way to save the planet!’ * ‘The E.Y.E. Project Eco Summit was a fun, unique way to learn about staying environmentally friendly and making a difference. I really enjoyed it!’ * ‘Today I had loads of fun learning about the environment and how we can change the world –I’m an Eco warrior!’ *

For a more detailed write up with photos on our website visit : http://www.eyeproject.co.uk/news/9th-worthing-adur-eco-summit-davison- high-school-girls-success

Additional photos will be added to the gallery section of the website in due course. If your school was part of the day and has photos that you would like to share please email these to [email protected].

We are also planning to upload to our website a video of the event made by Worthing High School and Davison pupils on the day. Many thanks to these pupils for producing this video which was shown during the afternoon assembly at the event.

Thank you to all the schools and pupils who supported the event and to all schools who took part in the Climate Change Art Competition, Eco Club video competition, or milk bottle top collection (more details on these separately in this newsletter).

Milk Bottle Top Collection A huge thank you to all schools that collected and brought along milk bottle tops to the 9th Worthing & Adur Eco Summit. We were astounded at the quantity collected which would not even fit into the boot of a people carrier!

Mrs Pritchard from Worthing Society for the Blind has asked us to pass on their thanks to all those involved with the milk bottle tops collection, and advised that the collection weighed over 36kgs. She confirmed that the 10 bin liner bags of tops will be picked up by a Portsmouth recycling company and once back at the recycling plant they will eventually be granulated into children’s play equipment and of course more bottle tops. Once Worthing Society for the Blind has collected a certain amount the recycling company pass on a donation to them. Their collection is a great way of raising funds, promoting their Society and importantly producing less waste, so do spread the word!

For more details visit our website: http://www.eyeproject.co.uk/news/milk- bottle-top-collection-eco-summit or the Worthing Society for the Blind website http://www.worthingsocietyfortheblind.co.uk/

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Climate Change Art Competition Thank you to all schools, and most importantly, pupils who took part in the Climate Change Art Competition. We received some fantastic artwork from both

Primary and Secondary pupils and the judging panel, which included Shoreham

Port Authority (sponsors of the competition) and The Ropetackle Arts Centre, were impressed with the entries received.

**The winning E.Y.E. Project ‘member’ Secondary school was Chatsmore Catholic High School with an impressive and moving piece of art from a year 8 pupil, Elysia.

**The Winning E.Y.E. Project ‘member’ Primary school was Thomas a Becket Junior School with joint collaboration by two pupils from year 6, Louis & Zack.

These three pupils were awarded with winners’ certificates and art supplies and each of these two member schools received £125 to be used towards their schools eco initiatives.

**Due to the quality of the artwork and its clear Climate Change message there was a Non-member entry that the judging panel felt also deserved a prize and this award was given to another collaborative piece of work by two year 5 pupils, Claire & Georgia at Eastbrook Primary Academy. These pupils also received winners’ certificates and art supplies.

**Highly commended awards and certificates were given to Bronwyn (Thomas a Becket Junior), Lily (St Nicholas & St Mary CE Primary School), and Sophie

(Chatsmore Catholic Primary school).

th All artwork was displayed at the 9 Worthing & Adur Eco Summit and the winners were announced during the afternoon assembly.

To see the winning artwork and photos of the awards presentations please visit our website: http://www.eyeproject.co.uk/news/climate-change-art- competition-winners

Climate Change Art Exhibition: Oct 2016 The Ropetackle Arts Centre has kindly offered to hold an exhibition of the fantastic artwork sent in for the Climate Change Art Competition. This exhibition will take place in the Autumn term during the week commencing 10th October.

Pupils who will have artwork on display will be invited to attend an opening event with their parents. Further details will follow.

In the meantime, we are keen to receive additional artwork for the exhibition. If your school is interesting in involving your pupils please do send in their artwork. We simply ask them to draw/paint their own impressions of Climate Change and/or its effects on A3/A4 paper with their name, age and school on the front of back.

We will advise you of the final date for artwork to be submitted when schools return in the Autumn term.

Eco Video Competition awards

It was great to receive videos from a number of E.Y.E. Project member schools showing the various activities that their schools’ Eco Club was involved in.

The winning school was Shoreham College.

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Shoreham College was chosen as winners for the wide range of eco club activities including: Energy saving initiative to buy an acre of rainforest; and their Ecological Surveys. The competition was sponsored by Zenergi who presented Shoreham College with £40 Gardening vouchers in the afternoon assembly at the Eco Summit event. All attending pupils then watched the winning video. All video entries were shown in the ‘Stands’ hall during registration, break and lunch periods.

Fairtrade Banana Quiz

The Fairtrade Banana Quiz generated lots of interest amongst the students who th visited the Fairtrade Worthing stall at the 9 Worthing & Adur Eco Summit.

The winner of the Quiz on the day was Thomas A Becket Junior School & they have been presented by Worthing Fairtrade Town Steering Group with £20 to spend on Fairtrade at the school.

The Fairtrade Schools website has a large range of resources including the Fairtrade Banana Quiz which can be downloaded: http://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/resource/the-banana-quiz/

If your school is interested in making contact with the Worthing Fairtrade Town Steering Group please email [email protected] and we will pass on your details.

Chichester Eco Summit

Preparations are now in full swing for the first ever E.Y.E. Project Eco Summit in the Chichester area. The event will take place on Monday 26th September

2016.

So far 7 Primary and Secondary schools from the Chichester area have booked places at this inaugural event taking place this year at The Weald & Downland

Open Air Museum.

Chichester High School are hoping to become a Chichester Hub for this annual event for their feeder Primary schools from 2017.

Workshops will cover a range of environmental and sustainability topics such as: Ocean & Climate, Water, Energy, Biodiversity, Food production, Food miles,

Global Citizenship, and Growing. There will also be a Key Note Speech on Waste from WSCC Waste Prevention team.

There are still 20 places remaining at this event. Whilst the event is aiming at

Chichester schools, if your school was unable to take part in the Littlehampton or Worthing events this year and you would like to combine an Eco Summit with a with a visit to The Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, please make contact with Clare Sutton on 01903 237864 x242 or email [email protected]. These places will be allocated on a first come first served basis with a maximum of 10 places per school.

Rocket Science Project

So the Blue packets went to space! If your school was involved in this project please do tell us about your schools involvement (with photos) so that we can then share the experiences and findings of local schools in a future newsletter and on our website.

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Polli:nation Back in our February newsletter (issue 8) we advised that Worthing High School had formed a cluster group with , Thomas a Becket Junior, and Thomas a Becket First School and made a success grant application for a

Heritage Lottery Funded project with Learning Through Landscapes (LTL) called ‘Polli:Nation’. This projects aim was to engage schools in the needs of pollinating butterflies, bees and moths.

260 schools were chosen to become official Polli:Nation schools. The Polli:nation website gives details of what these schools are doing to make their school grounds pollinator friendly.

Here are initial details about the successful Worthing Schools cluster:

‘Our common vision for our cluster is….

Food! We want to explore how food can be safely harvested from Pollinator friendly plants. This might include planting edible hedgerows, propagating and sharing vegetable plants and seeds. We will use this within our eco school programme. We aim to engage and communicate beyond our cluster through the E.Y.E project and Transition Town Worthing.

Thomas A Becket Junior School will use this project to plant natural food plants and flowers within our Forest School grounds to attraction insects which will complement our continued projects linked to our pond, bug and stag beetle hotel. This will support our activities within the Year 3 and 4 topics.

Thomas A Becket Infant school will use this project to compliment and improve the Forest and Eco schools learning that is already taking place. It will aim to create corridors for pollinators to move through the school and give the children the opportunity to learn about pollinators and their impact on the growing of food.

Oak Grove College will use this project to continue with our general vegetable and plant growing commitment and to improve the general knowledge of the importance of pollination throughout the school. We will also explore the growing of food related hedging within the school grounds.

Worthing High School will use this project to plant edible hedgerows and other food plants in several sites around the school grounds. Our aim is to increase student knowledge and awareness of pollinating insects and our reliance on these both locally and globally. We will also look at developing corridors for pollinators around the school site and linking with neighbouring areas.’

The E.Y.E. Project plans to provide updates on what these local schools are doing including how these schools are hoping to link their project in with local events.

The Polli:nation website http://www.polli-nation.co.uk/ has a range of resources and activities (such as a Polli:nation Survey), useful information, and a schools page which has details of the projects that the 260 schools are involved in. The Worthing School Cluster has its own page whichi will include

Blogs from the schools.

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British Food Fortnight Love British Food run British Food Fortnight annually each year in the autumn at the same time as Harvest Festival. This will this will take place from

17th September to 2nd October 2016. This celebration promotes the benefits of buying and eating from our home produced British larder. Buying local produce reduces food miles and is therefore beneficial to the environment.

Are you a Champion at Celebrating British Food? Or maybe some of your pupils were involved in The Southern Co-operatives workshop ‘Explore the food on your doorstep’ at the 9th Worthing & Adur Eco Summit and are inspired to promote this with their peers?

British Food Fortnight Competition - The search is on for the most imaginative and innovative celebration of British food during British Food Fortnight. The Love British Food judges are looking for an event, large or small, that brings colour to the lives of those taking part and a love of the diverse and delicious food produced in this country. It could be an event for school children teaching them the delights of the food grown on their doorstep; or even a whole town embracing British food culture.

How to enter

1. Hold your celebratory event during or around British Food Fortnight th nd (September 17 - October 2 2016). 2. Enter by emailing details of your event to [email protected] before midday on Monday, October 10th 2016. Entrants must describe their community initiative in no more than 500 words, stating what’s new if it is an established event, and including at least two quotes from people attending the event.

Entries may be supported by up to three photographs.

For further details go to their website: http://www.lovebritishfood.co.uk/bring-home-the-harvest/british-food- fortnight-competition-2016

Details provided by The Team at Love British Food in a recent email has been added to the news section of our website: http://www.eyeproject.co.uk/news/17th-september-2nd-october-annual-2- week-celebration-british-food

In this they suggest how schools can take part: Continue the Royal theme of the summer and research the favourite foods of Kings and Queens gone by. Encourage children to dress up as Royals from different points in history, ask local producers to contribute and if possible produce dishes for them to try. Recipes with quirky sounding ingredients like rook pie are guaranteed to capture the children’s imagination!

In addition their website lovebritishfood.co.uk includes a variety of information and resources. There is a Teacher’s Zone with resources that will help you find everything you need to bring British food alive in your school and get your pupils excited about the wonderful food we produce in this country. There is also a page with ideas of fun and imaginative activities that can be organised to link with the British message. For example, here are some ideas suggested by Love British Food:  Link up with a local farmer or producer. Ask them to visit the school, or pay them a visit so the children can discover how food is made.

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The E.Y.E. Project is led  Approach local restaurants to ask whether a chef can come and by a Committee which demonstrate in school. includes the following core  Hold a British assembly in the form of a 'banquet', and focus on food members: Chairperson: Barbara Shaw thorough the ages - that which would have been eaten by Kings and (of Transition Town Queens at different times. Encourage the children to dress up as Worthing); Secretary: Royals from different points in history and if possible produce dishes for WSCC Senior Advisor them to try. Sustainability; Treasurer:  If you have an allotment, encourage the children to think about where Business Manager Worthing High School; Tim Loughton, some of the foods planted originate from, and label those that are truly MP. British with Union flags.  Encourage children to research the food in their local area with their For information about parents. Set up a local food trail with options for places to visit on the becoming E.Y.E. Project weekend, e.g. pick your own centres and farm shops. Members visit our website www.eyeproject.co.uk or email [email protected] Useful links and ‘tweet’s’ Please note that we have no responsibility Follow @EYEProject to see information relating to the E.Y.E Project along with for the content on useful information and resources from a range of organisations covering the external sites referred keys topics of Waste, Recycling, Litter, Energy, Biodiversity, Transport, to in this newsletter. School Grounds, Global Citizenship and Healthy Living. We also tweet links to activities for eco clubs.

To see all our tweets/retweets follow @EYEProject.

Upcoming events/Dates for Diary:

E.Y.E. Project events:

26th September 2016 – Chichester Eco Summit at The Weald & Downland Open Air Museum

Other dates for diary:

17th September – Beach Clean Worthing - further details to follow. 17th September to 2nd October 2016 – British Food Fortnight

*MEMBER SCHOOLS SECTION* Networking Sessions (member schools) E.Y.E. Project member schools only:

Funding Opportunities This Section is visible to Member Schools Only

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The E.Y.E Project is sponsored by the Southern Co-operative.

"The Southern Co-operative is committed to safeguarding the environment in which we all live and work. Rather than offset our emissions by buying carbon credits that support environmental projects abroad, we invest in projects within the communities in which we trade (across the south of England). The EYE Project is an innovative and dynamic approach to engaging young people in a fun, informative and hands-on way, and The Southern Co-operative is proud to support this. We strongly believe that by supporting local projects - such as the E.Y.E Project - with not only funding, but also with practical help, advice and co-operation, we can help people of all ages to make a real difference to the environment." - The Southern Co-operative http://www.thesouthernco-operative.co.uk/

And also supported by http://www.ernestcooktrust.org.uk