Last year our Eco Committee led by Mrs. Crawford took part in an initiative run by Promethean the people who make our interactive whiteboards. The aim was to collect enough old mobile phones to win a Promethean Active Expression2 voting system.

The pupils and parents collected a massive 250 phones which will be sent away for recyling so saving them from ending up as toxic waste in rubbish dumps. The BBC reckons that 85 million mobile phones have been thrown away are or are just lying about peoples’ houses instead of being recycled.

 The voting system which we received provides each pupil with a handset with which they can respond to questions put up on the whiteboard. This allows all the children in the class to take an active part in the lesson.

To find out more about the voting sytem click here.

Here is the Eco Committee with the voting system handsets and the phones packed and ready to go.