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Success Story: Arrowhead Elementary School
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Arrowhead Elementary
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Reusable trays replaced disposable polystyrene trays. After lunch, students at Arrowhead help to stack reusable trays. |
School District: Northshore
School Location: Kenmore
Began participating in the Green Schools Program: October 2007
Level one of the Green Schools Program: Achieved in May 2009
Waste Reduction and Recycling
- Arrowhead Elementary reduced garbage by 25 percent and established a recycling rate of 40 percent.
- Arrowhead students attended a school-wide assembly in which the student council presented information on recycling and the four Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle, and re-think.
- The student council made posters and a banner about recycling.
- Teams of parent volunteers and student council members gave in-class demonstrations on appropriate recycling methods.
- Principal Pete Misner asked the Northshore School District to replace the disposable polystyrene lunch trays with durable, reusable trays. The district purchased durable trays and provided staff hours to wash them. Student volunteers help to collect the trays from each classroom.
- Arrowhead started using and promoting an on-line newsletter which reduces paper use.
- Parent volunteers integrated conservation practices into PTA meetings by printing fewer handouts and using durable cups.
- Teacher Scott's first-grade class began a food composting project which it would like to expand throughout the school during the next year.
Litter Reduction
- Arrowhead organized a school-wide litter clean up event. Teachers, parents and students picked up trash around campus and ended the day with a recognition assembly for the school.
Awards
- Arrowhead received the Energy Star Award for Efficient School.
- Principal Pete Misner won a King County Earth Hero at School award in 2009 for leading the school’s conservation practices and Green Schools Program achievements.
For more information about this school’s participation in the Green Schools Program, contact:
Pete Misner, principal
pmisner@nsd.org
Erin Person, parent and PTA Green Committee Chair
e.person@comcast.net
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