Sustainability Week

On Monday the Eco Reps surveyed students on how they travelled to school and collected air pollution data. Well done to everyone who didn’t come by car, keep it up, it makes a difference!

Here are the results:

The World Health Organisation recommends exposure to PM 2.5 should be less than 5 μg/m3. Outside Channing, most of the readings were sadly above this figure, and the highest was 6.8μg/m3.

On Monday we had Alison Williams from the Happy Elephant Company tell her interactive and inspirational story of how she set up a company that makes sustainable jewellery from a Tagua seed grown in the Andes Mountains in Ecuador. It is called the Happy Elephant Company because Tagua seeds look like ivory and can be shaped into ornaments and jewellery without killing elephants.

During the whole school assembly on the problem of Fast Fashion, the Sustainability Officers, Bella and Olivia, launched the upcycling competition. All year groups are welcome to enter; the deadline is 29th November.

On Tuesday students from all year groups had an enjoyable time making different eco-crafts including leaf printing, wicker weaving, wooden spinning tops, and leaf lanterns.

On Wednesday Eco Reps from Year 11 and 13 attended the mock COP at Highgate School. They represented different countries and discussed many of the questions currently being debated in Baku.

On Thursday we had a preloved clothes sale and a geographically themed cake sale to raise money for the charity Just One Tree. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this event a success! We raised £370.