The Wellesley Green Schools Newsletter is back!
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Schofield's branch of Wellesley Green Schools has big plans for this year-lots of town-wide initiatives that have worked at other schools that we'd like to put into place at Schofield like reducing car idling at drop off and pickup, encouraging carpooling or walking/biking to school, and litter-less lunch. In addition, Schofield has an amazing resource for "recycled" clothing - Shoppers Corner- keeping clothing out of landfills. He have some ideas for aligning the mission of Shoppers Corner with Green Schools this year.
Join us on the Green Team to learn more! I'd love your input and ideas!
Contact Amanda Crowley and check out Wellesley Green Schools.
Lunchtime recycling / Litterless lunch!!
Did you know that Schofield has gone from no lunchtime recycling a year ago to now recycling every day at every lunch period? Currently we only recycle the cardboard trays and plastic containers from lunch purchased at school. If children bring in recyclable lunch waste from home (yogurt containers, drink bottles) we are asking that they bring home these containers to rinse and recycle.
In addition to recycling, our wonderful school nurse Judith Sewall has instituted a food reclaiming bag (an insulated bag with a picture of an ice cream cone) at lunch so that any unopened food from school lunches is now saved in the staff fridge and reused as snack for kids who forgot snacks at home. It is filled every day with yogurts, apples and bags of carrots that otherwise would have been thrown out as garbage!
Reducing lunch waste is a real priority and we will be rolling out a "litterless lunch" campaign this fall. Litterless means all lunch is packed in reusable containers or containers that can be recycled or composted (at home- since we currently don't have a way to do either at school.) We'll acknowledge the children who have a "litterless" lunch -more info coming soon on how that will work- but feel free to start prepping now by purchasing and using reusable lunch containers like mini Tupperware or Glad food containers that are easy to clean and refill.
Contact: Amanda Crowley (amandapeel@yahoo.com)