Firs School News

The Firs has recently started a new Eco Council. This is made up of representatives from all KS1 and KS2 classes.

The Firs Eco Council

The Eco Council has developed a code that all of us at the school will work hard to adopt.

The Firs Eco Code

• We recycle
• We try to reuse things
• We care for wildlife
• We do not litter
• We do not waste resources
• We try to use cars less
• We compost

Our Eco councillors are responsible for encouraging the school to follow this code. They check lights are turned off, doors are shut and our litter is carefully disposed of. They have also taken responsibility for our new composting system. Every day members of the council collect vegetable and fruit waste from the dining room and the kitchen for our composting bins. Mr Robson and Mr Cartlidge are looking forward to digging the compost into our flower beds!

Composting in Action!

We visited the salt museum in Northwich because they do a variety of very interesting workshops. We went to learn more about toys from the past. There were two sessions, one about toys from 100 years ago, Victorian toys, and one about Tudor toys, about 500 years ago. Our guides were dressed in period costumes. We were able to play with many toys including hobby horses, yoyos, jacobs ladders, marbles and dolls. We learned about how children played both rich and poor. Nowadays many of our toys are made from plastic but many years ago toys were made from natural materials.

It was a wonderful day – we want to go back again!

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On Friday (6th March) the pupils of J3 went to the Birkenhead Science Fair. It was fantastic, as always. We visited the animal corner, which gets bigger every year and included snakes, birds of prey, stick insects, spiders (big hairy ones), reptiles, an African hedgehog and many more.

The Fair gets underway

Nice necklace!

Bit of a handfull

Chemistry is fun

We saw explosions – lots of bangs and flashes for the boys, rode on a leaf-blower hovercraft, made our own silly putty, stood on “solid” cornflour (or was it liquid?), turned 2p coins silver or gold, saw hovercrafts made from CDs, crushed a cherry tomato frozen in dry ice, watched a brittle frozen flower crumble to powder, saw plumes of toilet paper fly across the hall, crushed empty beer cans without squeezing them, wore safety goggles whenever needed, saw the cola and mentos experiment for ourselves… and we were still back in time for lunch.

Can I get one of these to go to school on?

We can’t wait to go back for science workshops and would like to thank everyone at Birkenhead School for a very warm welcome and a brilliantly organised event and
our two parent helpers, Mrs Carty and Mrs Wood, for their sterling work.

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