Thursday, July 21, 2005
Burton End Primary School clinch top prize
in recycling sports event
Students from Burton End Primary School in Haverhill know their stuff when it comes to what you can and can’t recycle, after being announced the triumphant winners of this year’s Suffolk Big Recycle Week sports event which took place at the end of June.
Burton End was one of several schools from Suffolk to take part in the sports competition with a difference – which involved getting the recycling message across by competing in games such as the litterpick run, sort-it bean bag relay and three-legged composters. The games were part of a nationwide campaign, headed by Olympic rowing champion Matthew Pinsent, during the Big Recycle Week.
The events were organised as a countywide partnership, with the seven district and borough councils and Suffolk County Council's school education programme. One school in each of the districts and boroughs took part in the three activities, scoring points for how quickly - and how accurately - they completed them.
Well done to all the schools who took part in the event. Children from Burton End Primary School came out tops and scored the most points from all the activities. This included the litterpick run, which meant grabbing litter with a litterpicker, running to a bin and putting it in the correct bin (depending on whether it can be recycled or composted) and the sort-it relay where teams had to sort bean bags, representing various types of waste, into the correct crates or bins. After all that effort they can look forward to relaxing on their new bench!
in recycling sports event
Students from Burton End Primary School in Haverhill know their stuff when it comes to what you can and can’t recycle, after being announced the triumphant winners of this year’s Suffolk Big Recycle Week sports event which took place at the end of June.
Burton End was one of several schools from Suffolk to take part in the sports competition with a difference – which involved getting the recycling message across by competing in games such as the litterpick run, sort-it bean bag relay and three-legged composters. The games were part of a nationwide campaign, headed by Olympic rowing champion Matthew Pinsent, during the Big Recycle Week.
The events were organised as a countywide partnership, with the seven district and borough councils and Suffolk County Council's school education programme. One school in each of the districts and boroughs took part in the three activities, scoring points for how quickly - and how accurately - they completed them.
Well done to all the schools who took part in the event. Children from Burton End Primary School came out tops and scored the most points from all the activities. This included the litterpick run, which meant grabbing litter with a litterpicker, running to a bin and putting it in the correct bin (depending on whether it can be recycled or composted) and the sort-it relay where teams had to sort bean bags, representing various types of waste, into the correct crates or bins. After all that effort they can look forward to relaxing on their new bench!
