Länsimetsä club on Tuesday afternoons

We used old comic books to make stands for pens and pencils in our school club. Emmi wanted to be a chinese girl during our club.

Good results - we have saved energy!

We saved this year:
Heating -3,2% = -724,42e
Electricity -2,4% = -384,63e

We didn't manage to save water. We used 1,0% more water compared to mean value
= +24,9e
Altogether we saved 1084,08 euros and the amount for school is 50% = 542 euros.

So, we reached our goal which was -2,5%.

What happened just before summer holiday..:-)

We usually make a field trip before summer with class. This year we didn´t choose to go to any amusement park. We wanted to make a trip with the idea of 50/50 and saving energy. First we visited a farmer in Ilmajoki who has build a windmill to his own garden. We heard than he bought it from Denmark. He had to ask permission from every neighbour and then he built it. It has cost a lot of money and it takes about 15 years to get profit out of it. It was fun to see it and I suppose the funniest thing in that visit was the echo inside the wind mill. : )
Then we continued to the teacher summercottage and did a lot of activities in the nature! Pure adventure to children who live in town. We fished, rowed canoue and boat, swam and went to sauna, barbequed, played all kind of field games... We had a memorable day!

Other actions to save energy

On May we have done some actions in school to save energy:
- we collect coloured pencils and use them next year (so we have to buy new ones not until after three years)
- we don't throw notebooks away if there are pages left (we continue with the same notebook next year or we rip "clean" pages off and use them in different ways)
- in common-room we have old sofas (we don't buy new ones, we only change textiles)
- we order notebooks which are made by recycled fibre paper
- energy team classes have ordered shared coloured pencils

Feedback from teachers about 50/50 -project

We discussed about our school year with our teachers and we asked also about our 50/50- project. Some teachers were very pleased about it. They wrote that pupils and also adults in our school have changed their own acts to more egological way. Some teachers were irritated and annouyed about saving energy. They complained that there have been too little lights and electrical devices have been shut too often and too cold temperatures in classrooms. So, it seems to be easier to affect to pupils than to adults. Anyway most of us wanted to continue our 50/50 -project in autumn.

Clean up -campaign in Finland

On Friday, the 6th of May, we took part in national Clean up -campaign (which is a part of an international Let's do it -movement). The aim of this campaign is a clean country, where lives happy nation:-)
From 9 to 10 in the morning whole school picked up carbage around the school yard. It was direct action!
Pupils were hardworking and we got good results; the school yard and surroundings got very clean.

Walking event

We took part in a walking event on 28th of April. About 100 hundred pupils walked about 5km route in Gerby. We drank some juice in the middle of that walk. We had many adults from The Walking club in Vaasa. We wanted to emphasis how healthy, easy and ecoligical is it to walk!