WORKSHOPS

Wastebuster Workshops!

We’ve decided to help bring environmental education into the classrooms by combining our awareness-raising programme with an option for exciting makeover workshops. With an exciting range available, all gearing your school towards eco-school status, you best be quick to book!

Being Wiggly Worms Tagging Soil Quiz

Lead by our sustainability workshop man, James Strawbridge these workshops promise to be fun, informative and money saving!

James has been into environmental issues since primary school and has participated in eco-projects all around the world. He also put his environmental history background into practice with a significant household move from suburbia to a Cornish farm for BBC2's ‘Its Not Easy Being Green’ (2006 & 2007). Further TV work has given him the chance to build compost loos, put up turbines, install solar p.v and solar thermal systems, rear pigs, kill chickens, set up ‘green clubs’ on Fijian islands, and help teach communities about smokeless stoves in the Himalayas, he is young, energetic and loves teaching.

James

“Learning about environmental issues in an informal school setting is the ideal way to teach children and their parents about how to have a positive impact on the natural world. I fully endorse Wastebuster's fun and funky workshops because the lessons we learn at school stay with us for life.”

James's Signature

-James Strawbridge

Save your Energy!

Incentive Driven Energy Conservation Workshop

Aim:

To save the school money, and to teach the student/parent community the merits of energy conservation for both the environment and their wallets.

Objective:

Reduce the WATER, HEATING and ELECTRIC bills of the school.
Promote awareness of energy conservation among students.
Empower children to help their parents at home using the knowledge they learned at school.
Make environmental development fun, accessible and financially viable.

CURRICULUM LINKS: English: En1, En2, Mathematics: Ma2, Ma3, Ma4, Science Sc1, Sc3, Sc4, Design and Technology, Geography, Citizenship, Art and Design

How long does it take a banana to decompose?

The Young Will Grow

In Nature, There Is No Waste - Classroom Composting Workshop

Aim:

Understanding the cycle of where our food comes from and what it can become when we are done, other than landfill. Namely, the environmental benefits of composting and growing our own food.

Objective:

Install a fully operational composting system for the school with the children.
Understand the science of biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials.
Make composting cool. After all, not only balding middle aged men with sandals compost!
Make worms a more exciting classroom pet than hamsters and guinea pigs.
Have all food waste from the school being composted rather than going to landfill.

CURRICULUM LINKS: English: En1, Science Sc1, Sc2, Sc3, Sc4, Design and Technology, Geography, Citizenship

Green Is The New Black

Art Exhibition and Eco-Crafts Workshop

Aim:

Generate interest in the reusable nature of objects using creative eco-art and reducing landfill waste.

Objective:

Summary of waste problems facing society with emphasis on landfill and throw-away mentality.
Stress the fun and environmental worth of reusing materials for practical usage and artistic expression.
Run an exhibition or nature walk to raise awareness about rubbish with possibility for parent participation.
Generate interest in where our rubbish goes and knowledge as to why landfill is so bad.

CURRICULUM LINKS: Science Sc1, Sc3, Sc4, Design and Technology, Geography, Music, Art and Design.

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Children at St Edmunds Primary have been learning why composting food waste is such an important thing to do in
‘The Young Will Grow’ workshop.

For more information or if you would like to book a Wastebuster workshop for your school -
Please contact the Wastebuster Schools Team:
e. info@wastebuster.co.uk
t. +44 (0)1483 893550