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DCCN works closely with a wide range of organisations via the Growing Devon Schools Partnership (GDSP) to promote outdoor learning around the food growing cycle: growing, cooking, eating and of course, composting. For more details about the GDSP visit www.growingdevonschools.org Devon Schools Sustainability Bulletin: DCCN brings together this email bulletin every half term. It is packed with tips, resources and training about composting, gardening, recycling, energy and biodiversity. To subscribe visit www.dccn.org.uk Contact the Devon Community Composting Team for more information:- Don’t let Devon go to waste recycledevon.org Do you compost or want to start? Nicky Scott 07919 467589 [email protected] Melissa Harvey 07732 396012 [email protected] Don’t let Devon go to waste recycledevon.org Interested in helping the environment, growing food, learning outdoors and saving money in your school?
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DCCN works closely with a wide range of organisations via the Growing Devon Schools Partnership (GDSP) to promote outdoor learning
around the food growing cycle: growing, cooking, eating and of course, composting. For more details about the GDSP visit
www.growingdevonschools.org
Devon Schools Sustainability Bulletin: DCCN brings together this email bulletin every half term. It is packed with tips, resources and training about composting, gardening, recycling, energy and
biodiversity. To subscribe visit www.dccn.org.uk
Contact the Devon Community Composting Team for more information:-
Don’t let Devon go to wasterecycledevon.org
Do you compost or want to start?
Nicky Scott07919 467589
Melissa Harvey07732 396012
Don’t let Devon go to wasterecycledevon.org
Interested in helping the environment, growing food, learning outdoors and saving money in your school?
Devon schools are leading the way in composting their organic waste and using it as a valuable learning resource, with a range of support from Devon Community Composting Network (DCCN)Composting is a fantastic learning resource which can support many curriculum areas. Whether your focus is mini-beasts, habitats, climate change, gardening or persuasive writing, composting can provide hands-on learning opportunities for pupils of all ages.
The Compost
CurriculumA handbook to enable teachers to use the
composting process as a teaching resource
in Devon’s primary schools.
The Compost Curriculum Handbook is full of KS2 curriculum linked activities learning about, and using, nature’s wonderful compost. The handbook is free to Devon Schools; one copy per school; two for larger primaries (sorry not Torbay and Plymouth schools). It is also available to download from:
The Compost Schools Special
The Compost Curriculum Handbook
zone.recycledevon.org/teachers
DCCN can off er the following FREE to primary and secondary schools in Devon and Torbay• Advice on how to set up a composting system at your school• Organise a waste audit - DCCN works closely with the Devon
Waste Education Programme, which offers waste audits to find out how much waste your school produces, including food waste. This is fantastic hands on activity to get the whole school thinking about what happens to their waste
• Compost health-checks - check how your existing compostingsystem is doing, including repairing equipment and advising on thecompost process
• Help with funding - help you apply for funding to set up orupgrade your composting system
• Training – train teachers, caretakers and pupils in using thecomposting system
• Compost assemblies and workshops - to raise the profi le ofcomposting in your school and introduce ways of learning aboutcompost in the curriculum
• Skills share visits - coordinate a skills share visit to a nearbycomposting school so you can see how their system works andmeet a composting mentor
The Compost Schools Special off ers practical advice on
composting in schools. It can be downloaded free from:
www.dccn.org.uk
composting in schools. It can be
