More Surrey primary schools have signed up to Rethink Waste, taking the total to a massive 35! Already this year, four Surrey schools have taken home a total of £2,000. And now, a further £1,000 is on offer (£750 to the winner, £250 to the runner-up) in March.
Surrey residents have been signing up to Rethink Waste, completing online activities that encourage and educate them on waste reduction, which they win points for, and then donating their points to participating schools. The two schools that have won £750 each so far this year are:
- Knaphill School in Woking, which will use the funds to introduce more greenery to the school.
- Barnsbury School in Woking, which will buy gardening equipment, seeds and resources to help re-line its pond.
All you have to do to help your local school win funds is sign up to Rethink Waste online or download the Rethink Waste app, complete some activities and donate points to your chosen school.
So far, over 12,500 households in Surrey have signed up to take part in Rethink Waste. They’ve completed over 200,000 activities and are well on their way to reducing the amount of waste produced in Surrey – a result for the planet and for Surrey councils as they will save money on disposal costs.
Find out how your local school is planning to help their environment, sign up and get donating now:
- Ash Grange Nursery and Primary School, Aldershot – buy litter pickers.
- Ashley CofE Primary School, Walton-on-Thames – buy a new polytunnel.
- Beaufort Primary School, Woking – build a hedgehog haven.
- Buckland Primary School, Staines-upon-Thames – increase recycling facilities and build animal homes.
- Cleves School, Weybridge – build green canopy roofs and benches.
- Crawley Ridge Junior School, Camberley – buy resources to enable outdoor learning sessions.
- Cuddington Community Primary School, Worcester Park – develop an eco area to attract wildlife to the school.
- Earlswood Infant and Nursery School, Redhill – create a sensory garden.
- Fetcham Village Infant School, Leatherhead – develop woodland area.
- The Hermitage Infant School, Woking – run a project to reduce litter.
- Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, West End – create a recycling centre.
- Leatherhead Trinity School and Nursery – implement a food waste recycling system for the school.
- Loseley Fields Primary School, Godalming – build a wildlife and wellbeing garden.
- Meadhurst Primary School, Ashford – build bug hotels and make the school more friendly to wildlife and insects.
- Meath Green Infant School, Horley – develop food recycling and set up a community milk fridge.
- Merrow Junior School, Guildford – buy litter pickers and plant wildflowers.
- Northmead Junior School, Guildford – expand outdoor education area.
- Polesden Lacey Infant School, Leatherhead – buy litter pickers and help a solar panel project.
- Puttenham CofE Infant School, Guildford – buy new palm drills, a saw, poles to create a den, a slack line and a bench for a mud kitchen.
- Saxon Primary School, Shepperton – install bug houses, a hedgehog house and a pergola.
- Shawley Community Primary Academy, Epsom – buy resources to create and grow a shaded outdoor area.
- Shere CofE Aided Infant School, Guildford – buy flower seeds, trees and create a canopy.
- St Alban’s Catholic Primary School, Molesey – buy signs for a recycling station, develop food recycling and set up a school farm shop.
- St Anne’s Catholic Primary School, Banstead – buy litter pickers.
- St James CofE Primary School, Weybridge – develop green spaces and an allotment.
- St John’s Primary School, Redhill – create a year-round, outdoor learning environment.
- St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Epsom – buy resources to improve its old pond area and litter pickers for the children to borrow.
- St Lawrence CofE aided Junior School, East Molesey – create a wild garden area at the school.
- St Martin’s CofE Primary School, Dorking – develop a nature-friendly area.
- St Martins Church of England Junior School, Epsom – create a reflection area in its forest school.
- St Michael’s CofE Aided Infant School, Dorking – buy new bins to encourage recycling.
- Walton-on-the-Hill Primary School, Tadworth – create class gardens for every year group.
- Walton Oak Primary School, Walton-on-Thames – install recycling stations, run waste reduction workshops and buy eco resources.
- Warren Mead Junior School, Banstead – improve the school’s outdoor areas such as its vegetable patch, pond and music area.
- Woodlea Primary School, Caterham – buy litter pickers, pond dipping equipment, seeds and compost.