How Green Is Your School?
How Green Is Your School?
How Green Is Your School?
The prizes:
UK Champions prize of 5,000
Three prizes of1,000 for Regional Champions
12 prizes of 500 for Regional Winners
All about the TOTAL The Award Categories
Green School Awards Schools can enter group projects in one or more of the
following categories:
The TOTAL Green School Awards aim to encourage
excellence in environmental education. They offer
Totally Active:
opportunities to study a huge range of environmental topics for projects involving work in the school grounds e.g.
and are strongly linked with the National Curriculum for sensory gardens, ponds, wildlife areas, recycling schemes
England and Wales and the Scottish Curriculum for and composting.
Excellence. Work carried out for the TOTAL Green School
Awards perfectly complements work towards Eco Schools. Totally Clued Up:
(See Page 5 for examples from previous winners).
for projects researching any aspect of the environment
The four award categories enable teachers to introduce can be incorporated into Geography, Science, Maths, I.T.
environmental learning to subjects like Art, English, History and History e.g. Wild bird feeding or recycling surveys, Our
and Mathematics as well as Science, Technology and towns environment now and in the past, Where in the
Geography. What is more, they help make learning fun! world does our food come from?
Subject knowledge
Are there strong signs of learning in the project? Is the
material accurate?
What teachers and young people say about taking
part in the TOTAL Green School Awards:
Teachers Children
"Winning a TOTAL Green School Award has been a "I like doing eco things because it's saving the planet
great motivator for the whole school. It shows our eco and it's good for the environment!"
work is appreciated and we can use the work from Innes
this project as evidence for our Green Flag renewal!! "We have fun and an advantage is we save the world!"
It also helps the staff to develop creative ways to the Adam
eco- message to their colleagues, the pupils and
the parents" . "I've learnt a lot and it's really fun and I like
experiencing nature and stuff!"
Mrs Tate, Headteacher, Piling St Johns CE Primary School Molly
UK Champions 2010.
"Going to London Zoo was great and I just couldn't
believe it when we won!"
TOTAL Green School Awards encouraged us to learn Kaitlin
about current news issues, linking Literacy script "You get to do lots of activities and it makes the
writing, environmental topic research, interviewing school a fun place to be!"
techniques and film making. The children enjoyed Anya
immensely reporting on a subject exploring their own
Children from Pilling St Johns CE Primary School
concerns by encouraging each other to push creative
thinking even further.
We got to visit loads of different places
Carol Webb, Saint Matthews C of E Primary School, Liam
Surbiton
It was really fun because you got to learn about
where our shopping comes from
Lindon
It didnt really feel like learning, it felt like
Saturday morning activities....fun!
Emily
It meant you had a feel for what
was happening like in the world and
not just at school
Holly
Children from Saint Matthews
CE Primary School, Surbiton
Competition Rules
1. The closing date for the receipt of entries by YPTE is 09/05/2011. 6. There is no limit to the number of entries each school can submit.
2. Judging will take place by 31/05/2011 and will be carried out by a 7. All entrants to the competition will be deemed to have accepted the
panel which includes an independent judge. rules.
3. The competition is open to any group of young people aged 5-11. 8. There will be a winning school for each Award category in each of
the competition regions.
4. The name and county of the winning schools and the names of the
judges will be available to anyone sending a stamped addressed 9. One winning group from each region will be declared Regional
envelope to YPTE, 3A Market Square, Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 7LE Champions.
within 28 days of the published closing date. No other
10. The UK Champions will be chosen from the Regional Champions.
correspondence will be entered into.
11. Where schools are invited to attend Awards events, up to 30 young
5. TOTAL reserves the right to publish the school name, photographs
people, plus up to 5 accompanying staff will be able to attend.
and county of the winners or to publicise the prizegiving
presentation after the presentation and before 31/12/2011.
TOTAL is the worlds fifth largest international oil and gas YPTE is a registered charity that aims to encourage young
company, meeting the energy demand in the 130 peoples understanding of the natural world and of the
countries in which we are present and elsewhere in the need for sustainability. It was founded in 1982 and
world. The diversity of TOTALs business worldwide is provides a range of educational services for schools and
reflected in the UK with activities spanning the entire oil young people including:
and gas chain from exploration and production to refining,
Web site: www.ypte.org.uk is a huge resource of
retailing and trading. Total holds the fourth position in
environmental information, written specifically for young
terms of UK oil and gas production and refining capacity.
people.
We also have a significant petrochemicals operation here.
Free school talks: currently available to schools within a
We have been in the UK since 1955 and have a long
100 mile radius of our offices in Crewkerne, Somerset;
history of engagement with local communities. We are
Brighton, Sussex and Keighley, Yorkshire.
committed to being a good neighbour and to working
positively with our local communities. We are particularly Free publications: YPTEs publication, Conservation
keen to support local education institutions and to Education is published online each term and is
promote environmental initiatives. available free of charge via our website. Member
schools receive updates by email when each issue
We believe it is vital that young people grow up
is published. Membership of YPTE is free to schools
understanding their environment and wishing to protect it.
in the UK.
That is why TOTAL is proud to support the Green School
Awards, which stimulate an awareness in environmental Residential courses: YPTEs highly respected
matters among primary-aged children that we hope will Environmental Discovery Courses operate from
stay with them as they grow. Through the Green School centres in Dorset and Somerset. YPTE has been
Awards, we hope young people will be inspired and offering residential courses since its inception
motivated to think about what they personally can do to and todays courses are the product
help protect the planet and enhance the life experiences of more than 25 years of experience.
for future generations.
Entry Form
Please supply us with the following details:
School name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
School address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Name of teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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