Compost bin

Compost Bin

We had to look in a lot of different catalogues and then we finally found the compost bin in Eco Education. We found it on the same page as our water butt.

It is very good for Eco Schools because you can use the compost it makes for gardening. It is called Compost Easy, because there is a door at the bottom to take the compost out which makes it very easy to use.

We are going to put it just inside the schoolhouse gate. Mrs. Gregg, from Trumland House, kindly gave us some fine wire mesh to put underneath it so that vermin don't get in the bin.

We will put banana skins, apple cores, orange peel and other fruit and vegetable waste into the bin.

Andrew

The Water Butt

We picked the water butt, because Kathryn in the nursery had to keep bringing buckets of water out to put in the big water tray.

We looked in lots of catalogues, but could not find anything, so Andrew found one that had one in. Then we went down to the office and filled in the order form.

When it came, we put it outside the school door and we are going to connect it to the drainpipe.

Harry and Alice

Wall mount bin

We needed this bin because there was litter around the front of the school and there were no bins there.
We looked through lots of catalogues and found nothing until the last catalogue, then we found a perfect wall mount bin for £80.10.
This bin is good because there is a small hole to put your litter in so it doesn’t blow out and away.
Now we hope people will put their litter in the bin.
By Annie and Douglas

What we want to get next

We are still looking for:
· A litter picker because some people are littering in the playground.
· Bike shelter because some people cycle to school and their bikes are getting rusty.
How we will try to do this:
· We are still trying to get a litter picker with a lower postage price.
· The JRSO officers (P7) are trying to find how to get money for the bike shelter.

by

Karin, Charles

Rousay's Eco Schools Committee

We are the Eco Schools Committee at Rousay Community School. Rousay is an island in Orkney. We started in March 2009. The people on the committee are:

• Chairman - Douglas
• Treasurer - Erik
• Secretaries - Annie and Alice.
  

Responsible Citizens!

Today we started our blog which will record our progress towards being a greener school!