Footprint Friends assistance : wow teacher pack

WOW Letter for teachers

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

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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.