Eco Club
Hillside runs an after school Eco club for its lower school pupils to encourage respect for their local community and environment
Hillside Eco Enterprise Bags
The Eco Club are really taking our eco ideas further and further at Hillside! On Wednesday 20th May, fifteen Year 9 pupils went to the South Sefton City Learning Centre to create eco-friendly shopping bags and develop a business plan to promote the sale of those bags. Pupils “scanned in” their hand-drawn designs and used Adobe Fireworks and Photoshop to finish them off.
Each pupil then had the opportunity to print off his or her pattern and use a press to put it onto the cloth bags. A range of bags, advertising posters and even a radio jingle were created to help launch their product onto the market.
Throughout this really exciting day pupils were developing their enterprise skills and gaining knowledge of what it takes to start a business. Further workshops will be used to finalise their plans and produce the bags for sale, so watch this space!
The Eco Magazine
This month the Eco Club has been working hard on creating issue 2 of our Eco magazine, it includes all the activities we've been doing and even has some exciting eco puzzles! So click here and read all about it!
In October the club battled the cold weather to tidy the school grounds with litter pickers and bin bags, as part of the 'Big Tidy Up' campaign. Everyone was excited to stay behind and help. They explored the school grounds searching for any rubbish they could collect. "I enojyed the 'Big Tidy Up' because it was fun and we got to help the environment" said Daniel Keith of 7WD. The pupils did a great job and can't wait for their next assignment. "It was fun, educational and it helped me to understand the importance of the environment and the local community" said Steven Mercer.
Miss Patterson who runs the eco-club said, "the 'Big Tidy Up' campaign is encouraging local residents, buisnesses, schools and church groups all across the country to make England tidy. In conjunction with Disney's Pixar, they provided us with tabard bibs, bin bags and posters to make the event more successful. This is just an example of one of the many events run by the eco-club".