Eco Team
This year’s Eco Team members are:
Glow Worms: Freddie and Ivy
Dragonflies: Leo
Ladybirds: Zach and Audrey
Fireflies: Felix
Caterpillars: Kostas and Penny
Centipedes: Olivia
At West Byfleet Infant School, we encourage all the children to become Eco Warriors and think about their local environment.
The Eco Team is made up of children from each class (Reception will join the team in Summer Term). The children are chosen and voted for by their peers in class.
The Eco team are in charge of completing an enviromental review of the school at least once a term and ensuring that the school is on track for completing the action plan.
Spring target
Our Sprinter term target is to understand why single use plastics are no good for a marine environment. During Science week, we will do a lesson about single use plastics and the effect on our marine life. We have planned a West Byfleet Infant 'meet up clean up', to clean up some single use plastics along our local canal (details below). During our litter pick we will take photo's and put them on Tapestry. The Eco committee will then make a chart of all the single use plastics we found and compile a chart. This will then be shared with the children and via the newsletter to discourage the use of single use plastics in lunch boxes. Towards the end of the term we will hold a poster competition to advertise why we shouldn't use single use plastics. The top three posters we will win a prize and their posters will go up around school.
Autumn Term target
This term the Eco term have been thinking about ways to Cut our Carbon. Therefore the Week beginning 6th November, we ask that families take part in the Cut your carbon challenge and complete as many activities as they can. On Friday 10th November, the Eco team will see how many people took part and record it on the Cut the Carbon website.
Good Luck!
Cut your carbon ideas
The Big Battery Hunt 2023
The big battery hunt is a nationwide battery recycling programme for schools funded by Duracell. It's aim is to increase the number of batteries currently being recycled in the UK. Pupils are challenged to collect as many batteries as they can, encouraging their communities to do the same.
The deadline for entering is 30th June 2023.
The first place prize:
£3,500 towards school garden and outdoor equipment for the school
1x Nintendo Switch for the winning pupil, this is a pupil the winning teacher feels deserves it the most
1x Certificate for each participating pupil in the class
1 x Trophy
The runner up prize:
£500 towards school garden and outdoor equipment for the school
1x Nintendo Switch for the winning pupil, this is a pupil the winning teacher feels deserves it the most
1x Certificate for each participating pupil in the class
1 x Trophy
Each time your child or member of the family/community recycle a battery the children can add a pompom to the recycle jar in class so we can keep track and add it to the community counter. Good luck!
Food Banks
How food banks work
As a nation, we know it isn’t right that anyone should be left hungry or living in extreme poverty. But whilst we work for long-term change, our network of food banks provides emergency food and compassionate, dignified support to people locked in crisis.
There are over 1,300 food bank centres in our network. The services provided by food banks may vary from area to area as they react to the needs of their community to provide help and support to local people in crisis.
Food donations
Non-perishable, in-date food is donated by the public at a range of places, such as schools, churches, and businesses, as well as supermarket collection points. It is then sorted into emergency food parcels by more than 28,000 volunteers, to be given to people in crisis.
Food vouchers
Care professionals such as health visitors, staff at schools and social workers identify people in crisis and issue them with a food bank voucher. This means people can receive a food bank parcel of three days’ nutritionally balanced, non-perishable food from their local food bank.
BYFLEET METHODIST CHURCH- Food Bank
We operate an outlet of the Woking Foodbank. Our Foodbank Centre is open each Wednesday between 12.30 pm and 2.30 pm. We also deliver food parcels to shut-in clients, or those who cannot make it to the Foodbank on a Wednesday, as requested by the main Foodbank Voucher Team. Our food stocks are maintained by the generous donations from our Church Family, the congregation of the International Community Church and the people of Byfleet through the donations collected at the Village Co-op on Vanner's Parade.
Each week we have a "Free Food" table which is often stocked with food donated by the Co-op on the High Road. Anyone can avail themselves of this food, whether they have been formally referred to the Foodbank or not.
With the generous financial support of the Byfleet United Charity, Citizen's Advice Woking hold drop-in advice sessions in parallel with the Foodbank between 12.00 and 2.30. Anyone who needs help or advice can just drop in and meet with a trained counsellor.
If you know of anyone in need, please encourage them to contact one of the Referral Agencies listed on the main website, or our Minister, Revd. David Faulkner, or to leave a message on the Foodbank phone - 01932 355972.
Our aims for Eco this year are detailed in the Action plan below
Action Plan 2022-2023
Useful websites