This document outlines activities for a "Green Days" event at a school to promote environmental sustainability. It includes a song about caring for the world, a list of ways the school has become greener in the past year, and tasks for students to complete over the next two days such as making posters about reducing energy/waste and pledging small behavioral changes. Money raised by students will be donated to support orangutans and their habitat. The choir will sing a final song about how together people can change the world.

1. GREEN DAYS 2012
Days to think about the things
we can all do to be Greener

2. What does it
mean to be green?
“Being green means
that we live our lives in
a way which looks
after the planet for
future generations.”

3. How can we
be green?

4. Reception Have prepared a
song for everyone
Its our World!

5. It’s our world, we’re the children of tomorrow
Yes it’s our world, we want the trees and grass to Care for the world
grow By not wasting precious water
Though we are young, we all realise Care for the world
The little things we do make a difference Saving energy so let’s all pull together
So let’s all care for our world Every boy and girl
Let’s make sure that we recycle every
Care for the world day
By not wasting precious water Plastic, paper, clothes and bottles
Care for the world Don’t throw them away.
Saving energy so let’s all pull together
Every boy and girl It’s our world, we’re the children of
Let’s make sure that we recycle every day tomorrow
Plastic, paper, clothes and bottles Yes it’s our world, we want the trees and
Don’t throw them away. grass to grow
Though we are young, we all realise
It’s our world everybody everywhere The little things we do make a difference
Yes it’s our world let’s all show how much we So lets all care for our world
care And we promise that we’ll care, as it’s our
Though we are young, we all realise There’s so world
much we can do Yes it’s up to you and me, as it’s our
And we promise that we’ll care, as it’s our world world

6. What have we done to make
Hawes Side greener this
year?
Launch of golden Boot
Challenge
Increased things we can
recycle
Harvest festival focus on
Environment
Switch off fortnight
Solar panels
Model making
Fair trade
moved allotment beds
worked on tree area
Litter picks
A new green code.
Chickens
Blackpool Football club – Fit 2
go!

7. A big green
„Thank You‟ to you all!
“Together we have made our
school greener and that has
helped to make Britain a
greener place too.”

8. This week our Green
Council will be running
workshops for Blackpool’s
First Sustainability
Conference which we are
holding at Palatine High
School.
We have over 210 delegates
from 32 primary schools
attending.
We also have 25
environmental organisation
supporting the event.
Your work over the next two
days will support our
conference.

9. What we would like you to do on
these Green Days!
• we would like you to design A4 posters, how we can be greener - one on each of the
following themes. – Energy, water, waste, conservation, travel & transport, litter and
school grounds.
•Choose an animal species which is endangered. Explore why the animal is endangered eg
habitat destruction. Discuss solutions. Whose responsibility is it to protect species. It
would be good to have some art work and written work to go on display in school around
this topic. Why not begin with different conservation organisations.
•Discuss as a class- how small steps / changes to behaviours / routines can lead to big
differences and improvements in the environment. As a class and as individuals
children to make pledges – to change a behaviour at home which will make them greener
eg recycle all paper, recycle all plastic bottles etc – this can be done in different ways
– a) asking classes to be creative and build their own pledge out of recycled materials (
collage), b) by use of green footsteps c) short video pledges, and d) a wall wisher on the
Blog (which will be active on 18th June.)

10. YOU HAVE ALL DONATED £1 FOR GREEN
DAYS THIS YEAR.
THIS MONEY WILL BE USED TO ADOPT:-

11. Orang-utans and support the Orangutan rehabilitation centre ,
supported by Orangutan Appeal UK.

12. To finish our Green Day
assembly the choir would like
to
sing one final song.
Together we can change the
world

13. Thank you for listening
Please enjoy the next two
days.
Think about how you can
change the world for the
better!