Inscape Cheadle Green Day

Inscape Cheadle recently held their second annual ‘Green Day’. The day is part of a national initiative to help make schools more sustainable.

This year’s activities included some of KS4 pupils harvesting their home grown garden produce which was served as part of lunch on the day, children’s author Adele Shaw read to some of KS2 pupils from her book Eco Elf, a KS3 class worked with an architect looking at ways of creating sustainable buildings and other classes made instruments from recycled materials. Many parents, carers, visitors and friends attended the Fairtrade coffee morning and pupils sold plants that they themselves had propagated.
 
The day acted as a springboard for ongoing projects. The school now has facilities to recycle more materials including onsite composting of fruit and vegetable peelings. Garden produce is taken home by pupils to share with their families and is also used as part of a mini-enterprise scheme to produce sandwiches and soups. The school’s kitchen garden area also supports the new post 16 curriculum development in work related learning and ASDAN towards independence.