Ely St Mary's Challenge Updates

Week 5 - Silver

This week:

• Don’t buy any luxuries this week for example sweets, chocolate, magazines,     make-up.
• Check with your parents that you are recycling all that you can, including the contents of the bin in your bedroom.

Week 4 - Silver

This week:

• Don’t ask your parents for a lift if it is possible and safe to walk to school
• See if you can help your family to recycle paper better.

The weather wasn’t too bad, and most children managed to come to school either on foot or by bike this week. I am not convinced that all the children got their families recycling paper.

Week 3    - Silver

This week:

• Buy an energy saving light bulb with your pocket money, and ask your parents if you can put it in your bedroom.
• Ask your parents if they could try turning down the heating by 1 degree.  It won’t really be noticed, but will make a big difference to fuel bills and the carbon footprint of your house.

This proved to be an entertaining challenge because it got children talking with their parents about saving energy by investing in new light bulb technology.

Week 2 - Gold

There was an audible gasp in our whole-school Collective Worship when it was announced that we weren’t going to bathe for a week. However, some relief was also sensed when the full challenge was revealed to all!

This week:

• Take showers not baths if possible and use only enough water to wash yourself.  Do not loiter and waste water.  If a shower is not possible, try only half filling the bath.
• When you clean your teeth, don’t leave the tap running. Also don’t leave the tap running for anything else you may be using water for.

Week One- Gold

Lent kicked off to a good start with pancake races including staff from all twelve classes, racing with robust pancakes made especially by our cook. The winning staff members were Miss McArthur, Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Pemberton. Congratulations to them! Mr. Hickish took part and ran beautifully but doesn’t appear to have won any prizes, which is a huge disappointment to him!

We have chosen not only to take the Bishops’ Challenge by following the St. Mary’s Church challenge of “The Carbon Fast”. Here is the challenge from Week One which was set for the whole school:

This week:

• Turn off the light, TV or any other item you have running when you leave the room for more than 5 minutes.
• Choose to fast from using one of the following this week:  computer, mobile phone, ipod, TV, playstation.