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. Using the following links you will be able to learn:

More about the centre,
       If you are 7 years old or younger  (365.77 KB)
       If you are 8 years old or older  (333.56 KB)

How to prepare a waste-free packed lunch - see below.

About details of all of our programmes by clicking the "Schools Programmes at Bishops Wood" link on the menu on the left of the page.

How teachers can prepare for the visit  (532.04 KB) with their classes.

Waste free lunch

Here is a suggested way to pack 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.

Kinder to the environment, less expensive and healthier for you!

After your lunch
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.

Click this link to see our Waste free lunch PowerPoint presentation  (186.95 KB)

For some useful lesson plans on sustainable lunch boxes visit the English Nature website

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