Nov 09
In order to continue our fundraising for the rainforest initiative, we shall be selling biscuits every Monday playtime (am.) We hope all funds raised will be enough to allow us to sponsor more rainforest areas in Columbia. The biscuits are 10p and 20p. Thankyou
Oct 09
We have held meetings to discuss our new rainforest program. After all our fundraising events in the summer term, we have finally been able to adopt 2.5 acres of rainforest in northwest Ecuador and southwest Colombia. We shall be helping to save all the amazing plants and animals that live there, like the tapir, toucan and sloth.
We shall be continuing to raise money to adopt even more rainforest and help save our planet.
Sept 09
Welcome back, we look forward to all the Eco Team working hard to improve our school grounds. The new adventure playgrounds are almost complete but need flooring. We will be having a grand opening and then use of the areas will be timetabled.
Eco club will commence shortly in school time initially, and later after school.
Congratulations to Waunarlwydd Primary!
After a rigorous assessment by the Eco assessor we are proud to announce that we have been awarded the Green Flag for a further two years. Our Eco Team were outstanding in their discussions and presentations to the assessor and the school was congratulated on how polite and environmentally aware the pupils were. We were even graded A for our litter issue; no litter at all! So a BIG WELL DONE to everyone for all their hard work.
WB July 6th - We have been meeting this week to make sure everything is in place for our Eco assessment on Thursday 9th July. We have exciting plans for the two assessors and look forward to sharing all our hard work with them!
WB 29th June - We have been working hard towards our reassessment of the Eco Schools Green Flag award. We will be having our meetings for this on July 9th so are all thinking GREEN and CLEAN! Watch this space for news!
Week beginning 22nd June - Eco after school club has now finished for the summer as Teachers have reports to complete. We will continue to meet during the school day on a regular basis as the plants still need watering and the weeds need clearing. You will be told when Eco club is via the notice board and a message will be sent around the classes.
Thankyou to all the pupils who have worked so very hard this term
Week beginning June 1st - Welcome back after a lovely sunny break. This week we are celebrating Fair Trade. We will be holding lots of fun activities such as food tasting and the chance to buy Fair Trade foods on Friday 5th June.
We hope this will raise awareness of Fair Trade and help us develop our global citizenship skills.
May 09 - ECO WEEK!
We are all enjoying our fun activities for Eco week. There are many exciting tasks going on with every class planting seeds and making a promise for the future leaf. All the fun things will be on display and we will use our leaves to remind us of our responsibilities to our environment.
Remember - Keep our school green, keep our school clean!
April 09 - Welcome back after a refreshing Easter break. The Eco team are hard at work once more improving our school. We are now planning the Eco week and continuing to plant seeds and shrubs. The year 2 pupils have worked hard and are enjoying themselves.
March 09
Our wonderful Eco team are currently working hard on the outdoor area. We have planted trees and herbs in tyres as well as starting off vegetables and fruit seeds inside our classrooms. We hope the summer term is a warm one so that we can plant them outside and eventually harvest the fruits and vegetable.
We will soon be visiting the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff and will ask lots of really hard questions of our councillors. If you have any questions for our visit, please let your Eco team know before the 24th April.
We wish your all a wonderful Easter.
Welcome back after a cold but much needed Christmas holiday. This term our Eco Team are meeting on a Tuesday evening from 3.20 to 4.20. This will give us more time to complete our plan of action for the new Green flag in the summer term. We begin the week beginning 19th January when we will review our plans and agree upon our new plans. Please support opur Eco Team, they do a terrific job for the good of our whole school and all the animals and plants that share it with us.
The Eco Team would like to wish everyone in school a very Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year. Thankyou.
November 17th
Our Eco Team are hard at work designing games for our playgrounds. These will soon be mounted on the walls and will give everyone lots of ideas for playtimes.
We will soon be planting willow around our grounds so that we will be able to make willow sculptures in the spring term. Pupils will be given notice about when to bring wellies and wet weather clothes for the digging.
November 3rd
Welcome back after a relaxing break. Now the hard work starts. We have a brand new Eco Team from the Junior department who have been working hard choosing and buying new toys for the playground. Please look after these and put them back in the boxes. We are in the process of designing new playground signs for the Junior and Infant yards. These will be help make the playgrounds a better place for lots of different activities. Keep recycling and reusing as our Eco team have lots of lovely new wrist bands for those children who are 'Green'
20th October
Our Eco Team are hard at work meeting with the infants and playing new games. They are hoping to introduce a 'Tidy Tuesday', when they will encourage and reward pupils who have been 'GREEN' . Any other suggestions please!
13th October
The ECO Team are hard at work designing new play stops and wall games for our infant yard. We welcome any ideas that you may have. Just pop them into the poly pocket on the wall in the corridor or tell any member of the ECO Team. Thankyou.
Our new Eco Team would like everyone to design new posters for our school reminding all to Turn off Taps, Put Litter in Bins and Recycle all Fruit and Food Waste. If you have any time and would like to help please give your ideas to the Eco Team. Thankyou!
Welcome back after a very wet summer holiday when our school grounds seem to have exploded with new growth. We have held our first meeting and have already had lots of interest from new members. Our plans include holding an Eco day of celebrations, visiting the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff and holding a reduce, reuse and recycle poster competition for the classroom and toilets.
More news to follow shortly so watch this space!
Our grounds look beautiful at the moment with all our new trees growing very quickly. If you have any ideas or spare plants for us then please let the school know Thanks - The Eco Team
The wonderful Eco Team held a presentation for over 20 teachers from across Swansea on Friday 18th April. They showed our visitors around the school grounds, told them everything that we had done to get the Green Flag and then held a number of workshops based in the Woodland Walk. All the teachers were amazed at the confidence and expertise of the Team and gave us loads of compliments. Mrs Taylor and Mrs John were so proud! We are now planning our Eco day with the School Council.
We hope you all have a lovely Easter break and we will see everyone return safe and sound on Tuesday 8th April. 
March 08
We recently hosted the LEA Forest School Dissemination conference at our school and it was well attended by over 20 Swansea teachers. Our year 2,3 and 4 Eco members participated in the morning when they were interviewed about their perceptions of Forest School in Waunarlwydd Primary. The year 5 and 6 members took over in the afternoon and organised a number of activities for the delegates in our woodland. All teachers involved had a superb time and their feedback of the games and activities was excellent. All commented on the wonderful attitude and capabilities of the children - they were astounded at the Eco members ideas and confidence.
We would like to thank all the children involved and feel so proud of their achievements. Now we are actively trying to recruit new Eco members from years 3 and 4, so if you would like to join please let the Team know.
Once more THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HELPED US WITH THE DAY!
We are now looking forward to the Green flag day and the Eco Schools conference which will be held in our school in April.
February 08
Our Eco team goes from strength to strength with new younger members joining us for our meetings. We are very busy working along with our School Council planning our ECO day when we will raise our GREEN FLAG! We recently planted over 1000 new trees in our school grounds and we would like to thank all the wonderful parents and helpers who gave up their time to help us.THANK YOU! We are now continually monitoring our grounds and will keep everyone informed about our plans for the future. The Eco Team and School Council recently visited the Welsh Assembly Buildings in Cardiff to meet with our Assembly Members. We all had an amazing day and learnt a great deal about how decisions are made in Wales.
As a final note we have an enormous amount of daffodils flowering at the moment and ask everyone to take care of them as they really brighten up our school grounds.
Remember if you have any ideas on how we can improve our school grounds then please let us know.
Welcome back after a wonderful Christmas holiday. We have a very busy term ahead and have already had many new members from the year 2 class wishing to join us on our environmental quest. We are soon visiting the Welsh Assembly Government buildings in Cardiff to find out all about the democratic process of voting.
We will soon hold our exciting Eco day when we raise our Green Eco flag so watch this space for more information.
What a successful summer term we had. During July the Schools Eco Assessors came in to meet with the Eco Team and staff in order to judge whether we were ready to be awarded the coveted 'Green Flag' award. This is a highly acclaimed prize which is only given to schools which have met the exceptionally high standards of the Eco Schools Award.
The Eco Team dressed in their Eco T-shirts and presented a wonderful assembly all about recycling in our school. Next they showed the assessors around our wonderful school grounds and asked as well as answered lots of 'Green' questions. After an agonizing wait we were finally told that we had won the Green Flag Award and would receive the flag itself in September.
Anyone with a spare flag pole please contact the school!
CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE AND THANKS TO THE ECO TEAM FOR ALL THEIR HARD WORK. LET'S KEEP IT UP THIS TERM WITH OUR NEW MEMBERS.
Well our Green Eco Flag has arrived and we have now purchased a flag pole. We will be celebrating our Green Flag status with a HUGE Eco day.........Watch this space for details!
2006/2007 Eco News
The Eco Team have been very busy preparing for the Grand Opening of our wonderful school grounds on Wed. 13th June at 2.30. We hope that the weather will be kind to us as we are planning to hold a number of Forest School workshops for our guests. This will be followed by our marvellous school fayre organised by the PTA who work so hard for all the pupils of our school. Parnts and visitors are welcome to come along and support all the hard work that we have done to improve our school environment.
The Eco Team visited a local garden centre recently on a fine, sunny morning. We took a large bus which we absolutely FILLED with plants on the way home. We bought lots of different shrubs, small trees such as lilac and jasmine as well as pots of rich smelling herbs like rosemary and lavender.
We have planted them all around our school and they really look wonderful brightening up both the front and back of our school grounds.
THANKYOU TO THE GOWER SOCIETY FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATION OF £500
Once more the ECO TEAM hope you had a fantastic Easter holiday. We have been very fortunate to have dry, warn weather and have been able to work outside for a large amount of time. We are at present planning and designing areas of our school for planting. We have been very lucky to have been awarded a grant from the Gower Society for the purchase of lots of new seeds, plants, shrubs and bulbs to enhance our grounds and will be visiting a garden centre shortly to buy them. We are really excited and are sure we will return with wonderful things for us to plant. Keep in touch and we will let you know what happens!
WELCOME BACK TO EVERYONE AFTER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS FROM THE ECO TEAM. The Eco Team will be hard at work this term with all the staff in order to achieve our Green Flag status. We will be making sure all the boxes have been ticked in the application forms. We are sure that the recycling work and the School Grounds development will play a major role in our success with obtaining the flag and we will continue to ensure we keep our school clean and green.
We visited the Welsh Assembly with the School Council and you can read all about our adventures in the school Council links. The Eco team have recently elected four new members who we are very happy to have work with us. We are currently preparing for our inspection by making sure that our school is kept beautifully clean and that we recycle and reuse as much as possible. The developments at the back of the school will be underway very soon and we are excited at the prospect of having extra outdoor classrooms to work in. We have been thinking about our rap which reminds us of everything we work for. REMEMBER 'We are clean, we are green, we are Waunarlwydd Eco Team.
We are currently working hard completing the School Grounds Project at the rear of our school. We have conducted a survey as to what children would like to see in the area and have many exciting ideas to take forward when we begin planting and developing class growing areas.
When we return from the Christmas break we will be working hard on further developing our school grounds with planters, new workstations, bird feeders and many other exciting things such as peer mentoring in the woodland. We also hope this year to work towards our Green Flag and really make our school GREEN.
The Eco Team wish to thank everyone involved in the School grounds project a very Happy Christmas and a restful New Year.