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Back at school

Pre or post visit studies might include:
  • Setting up a wormery at school or an experiment in the time objects take to rot once buried. ​Most suitable for years 3 and 4 (1.5 hours) 
  • Visti the website https://www.52climateactions.com/waste to find out more about other ways to creatively respond to waste



Curriculum Links:
  • Design & Technology KS2 - Investigate and analyse a range of existing products.
  • Science KS2 - Identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment.
  • Science KS2 - Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
  • Science KS2 - Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
  • Science KS2 - Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat.

Waste and worms

Pupils can enjoy using their observation skills on the rubbish trail in the woods and then add their finds to the bio- degrade time line. Pupils will learn how long familiar items take to break down in soil and in water.
We will look at the process of composting and that we need Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen and Moisture to create ideal composting conditions for micro organisms to do their work.

​Examples of 5 different composting systems on site will be visited and pupils will learn some fascinating facts about worms and get close up to some live worms. Pupils will be encouraged to consider the difference between materials that compost and those that do not rapidly return to soil. Recycling is a great way of re-using these materials that do not naturally biodegrade and pupils will see some examples of ingenious recycled products.
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Donations

Charity Number ​​ 1079866

Earthworks Trust & Earthworks Foundation

​The Sustainability Centre is owned and operated by ​The Earthworks Trust (Charity No.1079866).
Our trading company is Earthworks Foundation. All profits go to support our charity The Earthworks Trust.
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The Sustainability Centre 
​Droxford Road,
East Meon, Hants
​GU32 1HR
01730 823166

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01730 823166
​info@sustainability-centre.org

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South Downs Eco Lodge
​The Sustainability Centre 
​
Droxford Road,
East Meon, Hants
​GU32 1HR
01730 823549
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01730 823755
infobeechcafe@gmail.com  

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​01730 823425
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    • Beekeepers
    • Chalk Grassland
    • Compost Toilet
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    • Straw Bale Solar Powered Showers
    • Solar Projects
    • The Woodland Hall
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    • Wetland Ecosystem Treatment
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        • Heritage Basket Making Course
        • Pendant Carving Course
        • Spoon Carving Course
        • Stool Carving Course
        • Trug Making Course
      • Willow Craft Courses >
        • Willow Bird Feeders Course
        • Willow Bowls Course
        • Willow Coffin Course
        • Willow Dragonflies Course
        • Willow Festive Decorations Course
        • Willow Frame Basket Course
        • Willow Garden Sculpture
        • Willow Obelisks Course
      • Food and Gardening Courses >
        • Clay Oven Building Course
        • Cordial Making Course
        • Deer Butchery Course
        • Kitchen Gardening Course
      • Forest School Training >
        • Climbing Frames, Ropes & Ladders with Jon Cree
        • Forest School Leader Training
        • Forest School Assistant Training
        • Forest School Taster Day
        • Lost Words Training Course
      • Health & Wellbeing Courses >
        • Medicinal Herb Workshops
        • Mental Health First Aid Course
        • Natural Wellbeing Course
      • Natural Building Courses >
        • Eco-Refurbishment
        • Roundwood Timber Framing Course
      • Nature Connection and Folklore Courses >
        • Foraging, Fire and Folklore
        • Nature Connection
        • Nature Led Meditation
        • Woodland Folklore Course
        • Unwind in the Woods
      • Permaculture Courses >
        • Intro to Permaculture Design Course
      • Sustainable Land Management Courses >
        • Coppicing Course
        • Hedgelaying Course
        • Wildflower Meadows Course
        • Woodland Management
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      • Wood Mouse Forest School
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    • Attending A Funeral
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