Footprint Friends assistance

WOW Letter for teachers

richard — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:12:53 GMT

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http://www.footprintfriends.com/wow-awards.htm

Subject: FAO Citizenship/PSHCE Coordinator: Get Your Students' Voices Heard!

Dear Teacher or PSHCE Coordinator,

I am writing to inform you of a fantastic opportunity for you, your school and your students to make a difference and address climate change. The Wipe Out Waste competition, part of Footprint Friends, is calling on all young people to team up and think of a way to eliminate waste at their school.

We're asking groups of students (up to four in a group) to come up with a proposal to make their school less wasteful & more eco-friendly and submit their idea online at: www.footprintfriends.com/wow.

The top 10 entries will be invited to pitch their idea to a Dragons' Den style panel of "green judges", including an MP and a climate change scientist, who will decide on the best ideas, which will be scoped for national implementation. The winning idea will also win a complimentary powerPerfector unit worth up to £10 000 for their school, which could reduce energy usage by up to 20%!

The closing date for the competition is the 30th September, so get your entries in asap!

The competition can be promoted in tutor time, during assembly or in a PSHCE or Citizenship lesson. We hope the attached PowerPoint and lesson plan will be useful.

We look forward to hearing from you soon and good luck!

Christophe and the rest of the Footprint Friends Team.

PS check out our latest footprint friends flip-book e-zine for more on the WOW awards and lots of other stuff: http://www.savearth.co.uk/footprintpost2/

WOW Lesson Plan

richard — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:07:42 GMT

A detailed explanation of how to get your kids to apply for the WOW competition.

WOW summary powerpoint

richard — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:05:13 GMT

This powerpoint has a brief summary of the Wipe Out Waste (WOW) competition.

WOW Teacher pack

richard — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:07:30 GMT

Summary

Closing Date:            End of summer term or July 31^st 2009
Competition: To Wipe Out Waste
Age groups: 10-12yrs, 13-16yrs, 17-18yrs
Awards Date:            3^rd Nov 2009 - London
Contact:         jonathan.b@footprintfriends.com
website:         www.footprintfriends.com/wow

WHAT:

We are inviting school-age students from year 6 and above (10+) to team up and present ONE BIG WOW (Wipe Out Waste) IDEA for their school to Footprint Friends, for an opportunity to be selected for the WOW awards finals at the Frontline Club in London on November 3rd.

WOW STUDENTS BRIEF

Their brief is to: group up into teams of up to 4; assess the potential impact of waste wiped out via the adoption of their ONE BIG WOW IDEA; complete the WOW questionnaire; and submit it to footprint friends by the end of the summer term. (*We'll accept ideas up until July 31^st or later if you twist our arm, and give us a good reason!).

Waste* in this context would be in the broadest sense; it could be referenced by energy, water, food, materials, carbon, time and money and so on. They will also need to speculate how much waste would be saved if their idea was adopted nationally.

*Our definition of waste is anything that is being used carelessly, being wasted, thrown away unnecessarily, misused, is surplus to requirement and so on. - The WOW aim is to encourage schools to get closer and closer to being zero waste. Put simply, zero waste extends current approaches to recycling by introducing the concept of circular systems in which as much waste as possible is reused, similar to the way that resources are reused in nature.

AWARD CATEGORIES IN AGES:

i) 10-12 / ii) 13-16 / iii) 17-18 (6^th form students)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF WOW QUESTIONNAIRES:

Friday July 31st

THE WOW FACTOR:

During the summer holidays, the team at footprint friends will log, record and analyse all the entrants.

We'll be looking for the top three BIG WOW ideas from each age group + one other, that generate the most savings, are the most practical to apply, and the most likely to succeed and get implemented by the DCSF (The Department for Children, Schools & Families) in schools nationwide.

All entrants will receive an official footprint friends WOW certificate with the number of their WOW idea, and all WOW ideas will be included in the on-line virtual 2009 big WOW ideas book.

The ten BIG WOW teams will be invited to London to present their ideas to the Green Dragon's Den in November.

AWARD CEREMONY

WHEN: Tuesday, November 3^rd, 2009

WHERE: THE FRONTLINE CLUB, PADDINGTON

www.frontlineclub.com/

WOW AWARDS GREEN DRAGONS PANEL of JUDGES:

• DR. LIZ GOODWIN, CEO WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme)

www.wrap.org.uk

• IAN FIELDER, CEO BIFM (British Institute of Facilities Management)

www.bifm.org.uk

• PROFESSOR BILL MCGUIRE, Footprint Friends Science Advisor Climate Change Scientist & Author. www.billmcguire.co.uk

• RT. HON. JOAN RUDDOCK (MP) - (Department of Energy & Climate Change)

www.joanruddock.org

• CASPER TER KUILE, Co-Director, UK Youth Climate Coalition

www.ukycc.org

• KEVAN ROBERTS, South Coast Business Entrepreneur www.karcontractors.com

From September to October, the footprint friends team will arrange school site visits for each of the ten big WOW idea teams. During the visit we will assist in polishing the big WOW pitches, provide presentation coaching and general media training, and prepare each team for pitching to the green dragons at the award ceremony.

The ceremony will be broadcast live on-line giving all schools who've participated an opportunity to be ‘virtually' in the dragons den. Each team will be given 5 minutes to pitch their idea to the green dragons - every member of the team presenting is encouraged to have a role.

The idea(s) with the biggest WOW factor for our panel of judges, will be scoped for national implementation in all UK schools. We're already in touch with the DCSF as they are looking for innovation and action within the school environment under their sustainable development mandate.

The 2009 WOW idea team and their teacher(s) will be asked to be a part of taking their WOW idea into production nationwide. The school would have a complimentary powerPerfector* unit installed, enabling the school to substantially reduce their energy usage.

*You can find out more on how this unique invention is saving money, energy and cutting carbon emissions at www.powerperfector.com.

MFTC Teacher Pack

richard — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:04:05 GMT

Summary

Closing Date:           October 30th 2009
Aim:               create the "Book of Dreams"
Age groups:             0-18yrs
Presentation Date:   7th December 2009 - Copenhagen
Contact:          jonathan.b@footprintfriends.com
website:                    www.footprintfriends.com/mftc
upload your foot:      www.footprintfriends.com/mftc-upload
post your poem:         www.footprintfriends.com/mftc-poems

WHAT:

FOOT-PAINTING AND CREATIVE WRITING.

An invitation to all young people no matter what age, to either paint their feet and/or write an eco-poem and have it included in a ‘book of dreams', which will be presented at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. In this way each ‘foot' will be symbolically there participating in Copenhagen in December.

MFTC YOUNG PEOPLES BRIEF:

i) Foot-painting: Paint your feet, have a photo taken of the "finished foot" and e-mail it to Footprint Friends or upload it directly to the MFTC gallery on the website, www.footprintfriends.com/mftc

Painting feet is a key engagement activity of Footprint Friends - the twist is that the intention is to create a beautiful design to be photographed rather than to leave a print. It also removes the requirement for parental permission to participate.

The foot painting activity is completely inclusive regardless of literacy, prosperity, culture and age. The finished art work is colourful and impacting. - There is also a strong emotional impact as the small feet are by nature vulnerable and not fully grown - they need the care and protection of adults.

ii) Creative Writing: Write a poem within the theme of ‘my dream for the future', and send it to footprint friends or upload it directly to the MFTC gallery on the website, www.footprintfriends.com
Along with being published on-line on the MFTC gallery, each poem will be automatically entered into the footprint friends MFTC creative writing competition. The best entrants will be included in the Book of Dreams, within the pages of photographed feet. (Web references are at the top of this page)

THE MFTC BOOK OF DREAMS:

The Book of Dreams will be presented in a beautiful and evocative format with an initial limited print run of 5,000 copies. The contents will include words of support from key figures, photos of decorated feet and creative writing from children throughout the UK.

IMPACT:

The book presentation in Copenhagen will generate a symbolic representation of children at the Climate Change Conference; in the process, it will also raise national awareness of Climate Change in school age children and create broader awareness of the significance of the talks in Copenhagen among the general public.

I'M GOING TO COPENHAGEN ARE YOU?

The collection of One Million Feet to Copenhagen and the resulting Book of Dreams will be both moving and inspirational - both of these qualities are essential in reminding the negotiators of their responsibility to future generations.

With an easy access activity (feet painting) and web 2.0 hosting and project support (footprintfriends.com), the MFTC Initiative offers significant and equal opportunity for child participation in the UNFCCC process.

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PLEASE NOTE:
* Footprint Friends has a facility for images to be uploaded to an area for moderation before posting live to the site MFTC Galley and reserves the right to remove any image without warning. By submitting an image to Footprint Friends you agree that you are the originator of the image or are acting on their behalf and agree that Footprint Friends may use the image for promotional purposes.

The on-line facility will make it quick and easy to collect the photographs and as the gallery grows by size and reputation, opportunities to further promote the campaign can be generated via other social networks, twitter etc with links to the gallery and upload area.

The moderation of this facility will ensure that unsuitable images are not published to the site

Introduction - What, Why, How

richard — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:19:26 GMT

This PDF is for teachers, and leaders who work with young people aged 11-18 years.

It explains What Footprint Friends is, Why you should encourage young people to join and How you can help them sign up to the VIP forum.

It also explains how anyone over 18 years can join the Supporters forum.

Teacher plan to sign up and sign in a class to Footprint Friends VIP 11-18 section

richard — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:18:09 GMT

This is a short lesson plan which covers two 30 min classes.

It will give teachers a strcture to allow a class of children to use Footprint Friends.com

Guiding Principles and moderation

richard — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:16:39 GMT

This PDF is a brief overview of our guiding principles and our moderation process.

Please read our terms and conditions in conjunction with this PDF