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Environmental Work at IMS - Year 2
Recycling and Guy Making
Pupils collected recyclable paper, card, material, plastic, clothing etc over two weeks. Year 7 pupils worked with visiting artists using the rubbish to make guys. These guys were displayed in
the village along with many others made by the primary school and the villagers. There was a competition to find the best guys. On Guy Fawkes Night, the guys were paraded through the streets to the bonfire site. There they were dismantled and sorted into
recycling bins. The recycling message with lots of fun.
Guy Making in School
Guys Around Ingleton
Year 7 looked at waste in this country and produced a display and assembly about their findings. The facts discovered were alarming
Year 6 have done a project about stone. Several areas of the curriculum were involved as the children drew and painted, wrote poems and stories and conducted research into limestone and its features
Year 6 have also been involved in the READI Project. Year 6 have been working on Drug Education as part of P.S.H.C.E. To help with this they watched a drama performance by Figment Theatre Company. The play was called "I Wanna Be." The focus was
ambitions which have been spoilt by wrong decisions such as tobacco, alcohol and solvents. The actors led pupils in a workshop and in a `detective mystery' to solve an unexplained event. It was excellent. Year 6 entered the workshop and mystery with
enthusiasm and they were held spellbound by the play.
Following that, Year 6 prepared their own work as a `presentation evening' to parents and guests. It included posters, dance, drama, monologues, adverts, raps and sections of information.
Year 7 and 8 pupils had workshops with the staff of the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust on the uniqueness of the limestone area in which they live. They were shown slides to highlight the uniqueness of the area and then divided into groups for the
three activities.
Activity One
Pupils examined several different types of rock - limestone, pretend limestone, marble, slate and sandstone and looked at the characteristics of each one -texture, colour, layers, fossil.
Activity Two
3D Feature Finding Using laminates of local maps, pupils had to find features and names with simple grid references. They had to find scars, tarns, rivers and peaks in order to familiarise them with the names and the local features.
What is limestone used for?
Pupils were given a selection of items and had to work out which items had needed limestone in their production. Items included light bulb, sand, glue, toothpaste salt and a book, along with items that hadn't needed limestone such as a leather glove. The
aim was to show the usefulness of the rock that surrounds them.
Activity Three
It is also important in the appreciation of their environment for our pupils to know something of the history of the area and to be involved in its unravelling. Our local Archaeological Society came into school to introduce the pupils to their findings
and methods, with a view to pupils working with them on a dig in Kingsdale in September. Archaeology Please also see archaeologist Noel Crack's slide presentation.
