13 July 2010 Highwood Junior School in Bilborough has been recognised by Nottingham City Council for completing 'Nottingham City Council's Waste In School Education Project (WISE).'
The WISE project offers help and advice to schools on waste. Practical support is also provided through exciting activities on reducing, reusing, repairing, recycling of waste. The school have successfully completed pledges looking at how to reduce, reuse, repair and recycle and have participated in activities set by the Sustainability Education Officer at Nottingham City Council. The school has successfully set up a school composting scheme and ensured all paper which can be recycled is being recycled. To encourage this they have decorated all the bins so people are more aware of them. They have also signed up for the eco-schools agenda. Highwood Junior School has also incorporated the national recycling logo and strap line into school letters. To continue the behavioural change across the school, targets have also been set in the WISE action plans to identify an action team which will meet every two weeks to discuss the schools recycling agenda; to complete an informal environmental review and to develop an action plan to share with the rest of the community. Councillor Katrina Bull, Portfolio Holder for Environment and Climate Change at Nottingham City Council, said: "Everyone at Highwood Junior School has worked hard to achieve the objectives set out in the WISE project and have made a real difference to their environment. "We hope projects like WISE will encourage young people to take ideas and activities home to their parents or carers so the whole family can be educated about living in a more environmentally friendly way." The presentation comes during this year's summer long campaign, Big Summer Clean 2010, which runs until Monday August 30th 2010. There are events that will give citizens across Nottingham the chance to give their views on clean priorities at a neighbourhood level and will also see the launch of new services including the new Clean Teams and engagement schemes such as My Street. For the full news article and to be taken to the website, click here | 
