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2025 Eco Challenge - Global Ocean Trawler Challenge.

Ysgol Y Foryd are linking up with the British Ironwork Centre to be part of the Global Ocean Trawler Challenge.

The challenge will be to fill an ocean trawler net with crisp packets. We will be learning all about the benefits of recycling instead of sending to landfill, we will be learning all about recycling and what happens to our recyclable objects and we will be looking at how we can care for our world.

The Eco Council will work alongside the school council to promote this challenge and encourage the children to bring their empty crisp packets from home, we will collect empty crisp packets from children and staff's lunch boxes and we will be sharing the message with our local residents, who will be able to drop their empty crisp packets here at Y Foryd.

By taking part in the Glocal Ocean Trawler Challenge we will hoepfully be able to host Coral the Fish here at Y Foryd.

Take a look at the British Ironwork Centre Website to see all the projects and why not think about a day out - it's amazing!!!!

https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/projects_item/coral-the-crisp-packet-fish/

Our Eco Superstars and Cyngor Ysgol have been busy filling the trawler net with our first 100 bags of crisps!!

2nd May 2025 - class challenge begins

9th May and 16th May

We are excited to see the trawler net filling up quickly. Classes continue to collect crisp packets in class and every Friday the Eco and Cyngor Ysgol count the crisp packets, putting them in to piles of 10 to make sure we don't miss anything. We are nearly at 2000 - currently 1,873 collected in classes!!!! And we know that teachers and staff around school have been adding additional ones in too. This is amazing -to think all these crisp and sweet wrappers would've ended up in landfill!!!! Keep going Ysgol Y Foryd!

We are recycling batteries - November 2024

Please help us as we enter the School Batteries Competition-Wales.

1. bring your used batteries into school

2. Check to make sure the batteries are on the battery list.

3. Put them in the red and white ERP battery box.

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Please click on the link to see all the successes of 2023 and next steps for 2024

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Ysgol y Foryd were re accredited with the Platinum Eco Award - da iawn pawb!

Litter Picking

The children in Dosbarth Gele have been litter picking	It is very important to look after the local environment
They did a splendid job of picking it all up	Luckily, they bumped into some other very hard workers...
Here is our team of super litter pickers!

Visit From Darren Millar AM

Darren Millar AM heard about our new garden area

He met Mrs Stanco who told him all about what we have been doing

Autumn Gardening

Mrs Stanco was on hand again to help with some gardening	After returning for the new school year our garden area was in need of some TLC
The seeds were planted in near little rows	We are really lucky to have Mrs Stanco and her knowledge

Ysgol Y Foryd Secure ‘Keep Wales Tidy’ Grant

Our school has recently secured a grant to improve our outdoor area	wyl Roche from ‘Keep Wales Tidy’ has made numerous raised borders
CIt was great fun to be helping to make our new garden area look amazing	Mrs Stanco gave up her time to help and to share her eco expertise
Tyres were used to protect our new trees	Teamwork was very important
The lovely sunshine made the day even better	We are all very proud of how our new garden is looking