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Battery recycling targets met
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12 year old from Cornwall is fronting a new campaign to persuade school children to recycle their batteries. The boy stars in and narrates a 3 minute film, which follows the journey of a battery from his home to school and then on to France. The film is part of a major push to encourage children to help meet recycling targets. The campaign, devised by European Recycling Platform (ERP), one of the UK’s largest battery recycling schemes, was launched on the 25th May. It is nearly 6 months since the new law on battery recycling came into force. Environment Minister Lord Henley said: “Half of all toys in UK homes need batteries, and so being able to recycle batteries at school is a great way for our children to put what they learn about protecting the environment into practice.” The UK is legally required to recycle 25% of its batteries by 2012 and 45% by 2016. In 2009, only 2% of waste batteries were recycled, the rest ended up in landfill. “Young people are big battery users and they are keen recyclers,” said Scott Butler, General Manager of ERP. “That’s why we’re providing a battery box and free collection service to any school in the country. By law, the UK has to recycle a quarter of its batteries by 2012. We’re going to need everyone’s help to achieve this.” Schools can view the film and assembly slides at
www.erp-batteries.co.uk/schools
Hello, Bonjour, Hola! P
&O Ferries has teamed up with award winning agency, National Schools Partnership, to create a schools programme introducing children to a foreign language at an early
age. The campaign Hello, Bonjour, Hola! is a new and engaging language programme devised
by National Schools Partnership alongside experienced teachers, to get children aged 7-11 excited about learning a foreign language. Last month The Times featured an article highlighting a “looming crisis within language teaching” in British schools and showed the work of Dr Sylvia Jaworska from the University of London who has been working in primary schools to interest students in languages. Dr Jaworska has since welcomed the initiative introduced by P&O Ferries and National Schools Partnership and commended “the well structured, useful and creative resources” produced for the campaign. Dr Jaworska said of the programme: “The materials are based on activities that engage learners in real life situations by teaching them useful phrases. The cultural contexts of countries are nicely interwoven into the activities. The materials also maintain a coherent approach to grammar and lexis and are well suited to the needs and interests of primary school children.”
This new programme will provide fun tools and activities for classroom use whilst homework activities and on-line games encourage parents to get involved in their children’s learning. As well as this, the campaign includes two competitions open to children and their parents offering fantastic prizes. Children can enter a competition to Design a Magical Suitcase, the winner of which will get a Nintendo Wii plus a selection of fun Wii language games whilst their parents can enter a prize draw to win a week long holiday in France from P&O Ferries in association with Keycamp.
uwww.nationalschoolspartnership.com
Liverpool teenagers not unclear about nuclear T
eenage pupils from Archbishop Blanch School in Liverpool showed off both their understanding of the nuclear decommissioning and reprocessing industry and their creative talents for business at the Sellafield Ltd (Capenhurst site) Make It Enterprising Schools Challenge event held in Ellesmere Port. The free event was part of The Manufacturing Institute’s Make It in Manufacturing campaign (
www.makeit.org.uk) to attract talented young people into industry, an initiative that is being expanded this year thanks to support from the Northwest Regional Development Agency and European Regional Development Fund. A team of 14 and 15 year olds from Archbishop Blanch School competed against boys and girls from 10 other schools in Liverpool, Birkenhead, the Wirral and Chester to design and build a 3D model prototype of Nuclear
Environment Waste Transport Solutions (NEWTS) to be used to hold nuclear waste products for transport, re-cycling and re-use in the UK and potentially Worldwide.
Their challenge was to become manufacturing managers for the day and form a business to design, manufacture and utilise an innovative NEWTS system, fully cost the vehicle and transport system, design a Safety Indicator System (SIS) to alert the users and controllers to any issues, as well as monitor the safety, security and transport status of the material in transit. The teams established themselves as a mini- manufacturing company and after selecting their job roles – including managing director, operations, finance, sales and marketing - costed- out their ideas and developed their own sales, marketing and safety plans.
www.nec-display-solutions.co.uk
They then appeared in the ‘den’ before the Sellafield (Capenhurst) team of ‘dragons’ to present their ideas and answer questions in relation to their ‘pitch’. The Archbishop Blanch School winning team, with their ‘Forward is the way to the Future’ branding, were praised by the ‘dragons’ for their team approach to the task, where each individual team member knew their specific role in completing the task. Supported by a high-quality presentation, the team paid particular attention to environmental and safety considerations, as well as examining the durability and life of their proposed vehicle. As dragon Nick Welch, Head of Site at Sellafield (Capenhurst) said, “they took into account not just the major important requirements of the task, but also all those smaller, yet equally important things that are often just assumed.”
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