Are you coming to Bishops Wood?

Are you coming with your class on a visit to Bishops Wood?

Your teacher will have been sent details of the visit, what you will be doing on the day, what to bring and so on. However, you and your family may like to find out more about the visit before you arrive.

Waste free lunch

Here is a suggested way to pick a rubbish free lunch:

• Use a plastic lunch box or 2 litre ice-cream box.
• Inside, pack two smaller boxes, one for sandwiches, the other for cake or biscuits.
• Small margarine tubs are good for this (alternatively use heavy duty reusable polythene bags).
• Fresh fruit needs no wrapping.
• Drinks can be carried in plastic reusable bottles or flasks. Water or fruit juice is healthier than fizzy drinks and more thirst quenching.
• If a napkin is required, use cloth rather than paper.

After your lunch

Recyling for the future

• We will ask you to put waste food into a bucket. This might include apple cores, banana skins etc. Please take uneaten sandwiches, whole apples, crisps etc. away with you to eat later.
• Waste wrappers go in another bucket. These might include yoghurt pots and cling-film. Take re-usable bottles, plastic bags and boxes away with you to use again.
• We will weigh both buckets to see how little your class has wasted. Waste food will either be put out for the birds or put in one of our compost bins. Our worms in the worm compost bins are particularly fond of banana skins and tea bags!
• The waste wrappers will be handed to your teacher in a bag to take back to school. Hopefully there will not be too many of them.