Projects Term 3 (Summer 2017)

No waste day 

Daniella Gallardo, Miguel Caireta, Angel Rodriguez, Bruno Pont, (2º ESO Environmental Club)
May/June 2017

This is Miguel, Daniela, Bruno and Angel. This is the information for the No Waste Day:

We looked at the results for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and saw that on what we wasted on Wednesay was about 200-300 kW less than normally. Here are the numbers:

Monday: 1357kW

Tuesday: 1521kW

Wednesday: 1157kW

This a reduction in electricity use of 20%!!

After this we did an average between the numbers of Monday and Tuesday and used this to do an average on what we use every month in school. Then we did the same with the amount of energy we used on Wednesday. We concluded that on a normal month we waste 8576.9 kW more than in a month where we would have all no waste days. 

A month with all No Waste Days would waste: 35192.083kW

A normal month would waste: 43769.583kW

What next???

Eco-committee Meeting  

Luca Montrucchio, Jordi Fabregat  (1º ESO Environmental Club)
May/June 2017

Luca and Jordi took a big role in organising the Eco-committee meeting held in the Auditorium on the 1st June 2017.  All the photos are included in the Oak House School newsletter from Friday 16th June. Luca and Jordi showed two videos and spoke to everyone present about environmental issues, then we went to the roof garden to visit it and plant seeds to grow plants that will help improve the soil quality to be able to grow vegetables after summer. On top of the seeds we left some wood shavings to act as a "mulch" to stop the soil drying out too quickly and to keep it cooler.

Environmental Awareness Leaflet 

Marina Bardina, Valéria Matas  (1º ESO Environmental Club)
May/June 2017

Environmental Awareness Poster 

Caterina Blengino,  Claudia Hernández, Gabriela Miarnau, Segi Orobitg, Lorenzo Sans (1º ESO Environmental Club)
May/June 2017

The poster and leaflets will be on display next term!

The Roof Garden 
Alex Muñoz  (1º ESO Environmental Club)
May/June 2017

Alex helped with the roof garden, and researched what plants would be the ideal companions to the trees we have planted on the roof. The companion plants will form what we call a "guild" of species which work together to support each other in a mini-ecosystem and we will plant them very soon!

Current Projects Term 2

Gardening in Early Years 

Ricard Bladé, Edgar Suarez, Bernat Camps (1º ESO Environmental Club)
March 2017

Our Environmental project will consist in various things:

We are helping nursery children them with their project. All the things that we will plant we'll do them with nursery children.

-We will plant onions, when they are ready to take from underground we will wash them and take
them to the Oak House's kitchen.

-We will also do the same with lettuce.

Here are the lettuces we planted:

Scrap Paper Boxes in ESO Building

Maia Sibley Swain and Victoria Balcells (2º ESO Enviornmental Club)
March 2017 - (unfinished)

Our project is going to consist in placing scrap paper "baskets" in the classrooms around the school (secondary and maybe primary), so that people don't waste paper when it could be reused. Sometimes people need scrap paper to quickly do something, but with the lack of scrap paper, we have to use normal, unused paper which we will then throw away. So, we thought that adding these bins would help the environment, not only for a short period of time, but for a longer time. 

Mobile Phone Collection

Isabel Gansäur, helped by María Vendrell and Marta Vázquez (1º ESO Environmental Club)
March 2017 - (unfinished)

I want to do the Mobile phone collection because I want to prevent the animal extinction as I am a member of the institute Jane Goodall I know it could really help. I will also talk to Helen for advice as she was one of the ones organizing it last year.

The campaign will run from now until June and we will put bins in the ESO building where people can leave the phones.

Link to see what is happening in the world of wild life:

Battery Recycling - Apilo Rocket!

Ivan Rodríguez, helped by María Málaga, Sara Horspool, Marta Vasquez, María Vendrell (1º ESO Environmental Club)

March 2017 - June 2017

Oak House School were given a space rocket with a bin inside, when you build it, there's a hole in the rocket where you are able to throwh batteries inside. There are also small boxes with information and with a hole, for throwing small batteries inside. We gave out the boxes to all the classes of Secondary, Bachillerato/IB and Primary.

before

after!

Let's save the grass!

Sara Horspool (1º ESO Environmental Project)

March 2017

Sara made a sign to try and encourage Bachillerato and IB students to walk on the path and not step on the grass - which is killing it and leaving an ugly patch of dirt instead of green grass!

Meatless Mondays

Patricia Darnell, Inés Lammers, Laura Contreras,  (4ºESO Eco Committee)

March 2017 - June 2017

These 4º ESO students have given up their free time to start promoting the Meatless Mondays campaign to raise awareness about the environmental impact of meat consumption. They put up poseters around the school to raise awareness and prepared a power point for the Eco-committee meeting on 1st June explaining why this project exists and suggesting that as well as observing Meatless Mondays at school (Thanks to collaboration by the school administration and kitchen departments) we could all avoid meat in our other meals on Monday's as well!

Here is a video clip where Leonardo DiCaprio explains the motives behind this campaign!