Tick off Bronze for... Composting

15 March 2011 – Have you wondered how to start making compost for your Bronze award? Or wanted to teach your children how, why and where to compost?

Download our handy compost fact sheet, which gives you all the information you need about composting.

Criteria: Our pupils have the opportunity to grow and harvest food and make compost, and this is linked to wider learning.

Resources

Check the Continuous Professional Development page on the Food for Life Partnership website for growing and composting training events happening in your area.

Case study

Disposing waste sustainably is high on the agenda at The Hermitage School in Durham. The comprehensive has put composting on the school curriculum, established a wormery and made sure the school kitchen throws its biodegradable waste in the school’s compost bin. Read the case study.

School blog

Belmont School Cloughfield in Lancashire tells us how it used a £400 award from Rossendale Council's Green Partnership Award to buy a composting bin and now its pupils are composting every day. Read the school’s Food for Life Partnership blog.