Dear Parents/Carers,

The Eco Committee want to spruce up and decorate the wire fence which runs down one side of our Eco garden to make it more attractive. Can you help by donating any of the following items to our school?

• • Brightly coloured/ patterned unwanted Wellington  boots to use as hanging planters.
  • Old metal teapots to use as bird houses
  • Bricks with holes through them, garden canes, old pipes or other tubing or even wooden pallets to use in making our new bug hotel
  • Leftover outdoor masonry or wood paint
  • Plastic 2l lemonade bottles to make self-watering indoor plant pots
  • Unwanted CDs and plastic ties to use for decorative purposes
  • Offcuts of wood e.g. old skirting boards to use for making animal habitats
  • Coloured plastic bags to tie together and weave through the fence
  • Any unwanted garden benches
  • Colourful sweet and chocolate wrappers and other clean wrappings to use in anti- litter collage
  • Unwanted plant pots

I will put a large box in the school hall just inside the Maxwell Drive entrance for any such donations.

We have also started collecting uneaten fresh fruit and salad in the dinner hall to add to our Eco garden compost bin. The pupils have been instructed to add these to a separate blue bin in the dinner hall at lunchtime so they can be taken to the Eco garden composters. Making compost this way prevents rotting fruit going to landfill and cuts the costs of purchasing compost for our fruit and vegetable growing. Pupils can bring these food items in from home and deposit them in the blue bin too.

Thank you for anything you can donate to help us with these projects.

Miss Brooks and the Eco Committee