Eco-Committee Badges

The Eco-Committee will be issued with badges when they come back from half term

Well-done Futures!

Futures have been awarded the Bronze Eco Schools award!
Schools work towards gaining one of three awards – Bronze, Silver and the prestigious Green Flag award, which symbolises excellence in the field of environmental activity.

Eco-Committee

We are recruiting more students to take part in the Eco-Committee group from all years.

The topics we are covering are – Water, Biodiversity, Energy, Global Perspective, Healthy Living, Litter, School Grounds, Transport and Waste.

At the moment we are covering Transport starting with the Bikeability lessons and learning to fix your bike, yet we are also planning for futures events such as the Wear Something Green day & Bike to school day.

For more information please see Miss H Wood

14th July Bike to School Day

At Futures Community College, we encourage students to bicycle to school and promote bicycle safety.

On the 14th July, Every Year 7 student who cycles to school will receive a prize and a fruit smoothie before Morning Registration!

For Period 5, we will have a guest appearance from a Bicycle stunt man, who will perform a few stunts as well as reminding us the importance of being safe.

Prizes will go on throughout the day with the Super Secret Cycling Sleuth,
Which will also continue for a couple of weeks after.

Wear Something Green Day

16th July - Wear Something Green Day.
The Eco Committee have been busily thinking of ways of supporting our Stopping Climate Change charities.

Other than Wearing something green for the day, we plan to –
Have various stalls during the lunch hour – Face painting, Fair-trade chocolate and a Meerkat adoption Raffle.

We are also thankful of Sodexo who will be providing a Jungle theme menu and donating an iPod for a lucky student, Please check back later for details! http://www.sodexo.com/

Animal Workshops and DWARF will be onsite. They will be offering a unique in-school service providing interaction with a variety of exotic and domestic animals together with organised activity workshops linked to the National Curriculum. www.animalworkshops.co.uk
www.dwarf.org.uk/

Sustrans Bike It School

The Sustrans Bike It project enables thousands of children to cycle to school every day. It helps schools highlight cycling in their travel plans, supports cycling champions and proves that cycling is a popular choice amongst children and parents.

In January 2010 Futures became a Sustrans Bike It School, with the help of Graham pearl we have already taken part in the Virtual Bike Race across London and two Dr Bike Days.

Virtual Bike Race
Year 7 students have been cycling in to school to take part in the Virtual Bike Race to celebrate 15 years of the National Cycle Network. Over 550 schools (thousands of children) having been taking part in the 8,408km race around the UK.
Well-done to 7GLA, who was leading each week with the most students cycling in each day.

Dr Bike
Both days was held in the Year 7 block, the year 7 students were asked to bring in their bikes to be fixed and checked. Some bikes required adjustments and tightening while others had safety critical components fitted.

Up and coming events

Bikeability Course
An On-Road Cyclist Training Course (April)

Year 7 student each week to do their Bikeability training, providing their parent or Guardians has completed their permission slips and being returned to their child’s tutor.

The training includes how to control your bike, being able to look and assess traffic, how to communicate and where to position yourself on the road.

The training will last for a whole day, only coming back to school for the lunch period before going off on the road again. Students will arrive back to school before 3.05pm.

Important Bikeability Information
Your bike must be in a roadworthy condition with good tyres and two working brakes etc.
Your child MUST have a correctly fitting cycle helmet that must be worn during the course.

Any behaviour that jeopardises the safety of your child or others will result in immediate withdrawal from the course.

Parents are welcome to come along and observe any of the training sessions

Please contact Miss H Wood for any further information

Green Word a Day