1. Our achievements so far All information is presented on www.stlouismiddleschool.com

4. The Eco-Committee We meet every week Friday 1.45pm to 2.15pm, Primary Monday 1.30pm to 2.15pm, Middle School Adult committee members are School Director Lucia Vescovi Deputy Heads Natasha Croad, Gerry Rafferty, Sarah Revell Eco Architect/PAB Donatella Ricchiuti Caretaker Paolo Castelli Student Council coord Sarah Ramsay Student Council coord Christina Gianandrea Loca Administration, Stefano Piccardi Recycling Bins local admin Maria Caruso School cleaner Maria

5. The Primary Section of the Eco-Committee

6. The Middle School Section of the Eco-Committee

7. We have an Eco-notice board The 7 steps Information about Eco School

8. Our meetings are at lunch Great decisions are made over a plate of pasta !

10. Review We started with an audit of the school and how Eco-Friendly we already were, we recorded results and put them on our website Students from the School Council completed the audit.

13. Action Plan The action plan shows all the things we want to achieve and how we plan to do it. Each time something is achieved we update it

14. Full plan on website

16. Monitoring To get us started, a local Eco-Architect helped us audit the school‘s electricity use. With her architectural drawings of the school we were able to monitor how much electricity we used.

17. Monitoring We placed a record sheet like this in every single room in the school every week for a month.

18. Electricity monitoring We checked whether lights and other electrical things were on or off We recorded the results

19. Electricity Monitoring The results were put into an Excel document for each floor of the school.

20. Our Environmental Review From this we were able to calculate how much electricity we use in the school each week. The calculations were carried out using Microsoft Excel The results were recorded on the school plan

25. ...planted new trees when others had to be cut down...renovated the Eco Mud Hut Outside school we...

26. ...look after our pond area...care for our nature area, we’re growing pumpkins

27. ...have litter monitors

28. Inside school we......recycle paper... save water from being wasted

29. We also... recycle all of our food waste And have plants inside school as well as outside

30. What else are we doing? We have student monitors to prevent litter dropping Water monitors to check taps are turned off We recycle as much as possible We plan eco-work into our curriculum, planning samples on next slide

32. Year 2 English Planning Year 7 Science Planning

33. We publicised the Eco Schools project to the whole school, with assemblies.

34. Our School Open Day was on World Earth Day so we made our Eco Podcast This was our very first Podcast, please listen on our website

35. We have made movies see website

37. Community 1.We involved the community in the project by allowing our ideas to infiltrate the neighbourhood around us. 2.We used podcast/website and neighbourhood visits to develop community recognition without use of paper www.stlouismiddleschool.com 3.Unique Industrial link to a firm of eco architects...[Director Donatella Wallnofer] that will take our monitoring surveys and look at developing in the near future an eco friendly newly designed school in our community 4.We measured traffic level noise near our school by adopting microphones

38. Community 5.We asked staff to cycle to work to develop community spirit...Deputy Head and Head of performing arts and numerous teachers took up challenge 6.Open Day design of trees made from recycled material AUCTIONED to our internal and external community for charity 7.The world community was alerted using our website [here] that shows at least 30 countries were interested in our venture.[here] 8. EcoSports Day 9.We issue an open invitation to Head of Eco-Italy to our Eco sports Day

41. Eco-code We had a competition to find the best Eco-Code poem, using an acrostic poem with ST LOUIS SCHOOL as the starting letters

42. Our Eco-Code SSing along to the St Louis tune TTurn off the lights when you leave the room LLet others take up the St Louis cause OOthers, make them aware of our new green laws UUs, we are an Eco School, so let’s start now, IIt will soon succeed, we tell you now SSo these are the points to show you how SStop wasting paper and killing trees CCans and bottles, don’t forget them please HHeaters aren’t needed when it’s a sunny day OOnly open the windows, starting from May OOpen your eyes, see what you’ve done LLet’s leave the world full of fun

44. What’s next? We will re-monitor electricity use and see if we have reduced the electricity bills Look into methods of making the school heating more eco-friendly We will keep doing all of the things we have started doing this year We will keep asking advice from eco schools

45. Hopefully with a Green Flag flying over the school...