The Change Makers

Welcome to our section of the school website!

We are the Change Makers and we are elected to represent our classes in meetings with senior leaders at the school and at events such as Eco Schools. We work with Mrs. Bailey to direct our efforts to improve school life for all children.

Please see below some of our work.

Wednesday 18th December 2024

Letter to Bridgend County Borough Council

Today, we met with Mrs. Gentle and Mrs. Bailey to discuss our targets for this year. We told Mrs. Gentle that we want to improve recycling at Abercerdin.

Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Gentle helped us write an email to the Council's recycling and waste department to ask for resources to support our efforts.

Thursday 27th November 2024

Eco-Schools Action Plan 2024/25

The Change Makers and Mrs. Bailey met together to discuss our Eco-Schools Action Plan for 2024-25.

We chose five ambitious targets for this year which you can see more detail on below.

Thursday 21st November 2024

Change Maker Meeting

 The Change Makers and Mrs. Bailey met for their first meeting since the election took place last week. 

The Change Makers raised interesting ideas that they had come up with during their campaigns for election. 

Mrs. Bailey and the Change Makers are planning to developing their Action Plan at the next meeting. Mrs. Bailey asked the Change Makers to discuss with their classes any ideas they may have to feedback to the group.

Friday 15th November 2024

Election of Change Maker representatives and Eco-Schools Action Plan 2024/25

We have been hard at work at Abercerdin on our campaigns to become Change Maker representatives for the 2024/25 academic year.

We are pleased to present our representatives for this year!

Well done to all who stood for election and congratulations to those selected! 

Tuesday 21st May 2024

National Eco-Committee 2024 - 30th Birthday Party of Eco-Schools!

 Three members of the Change Makers alongside Mrs. Bailey and Miss. Davies visited the National Botanic Gardens in Carmarthen to take part in the annual National Eco-Committee meeting. The meetings involve sharing, inspiring and having fun! We were excited to be able to celebrate Eco-Schools' 30th birthday!

We took part in various activities to celebrate including 'Qwoga', alternative party games and making our own party bags, eco-friendly bunting and gifts such as decorative rocks and plants.

We had the opportunity to explore the gardens and enjoy our lunch in the sunshine.

A day at the National Botanic Gardens was finished off with a visit to the gift shop and park!  

October 2023

Eco-Schools Environmental Review

Mrs. Bailey and the Change Makers carried out the Eco-Schools' Annual Environmental Review.

You can see our findings below!

October 2023

Eco-Schools Action Plan 2023/24 and dragons!

The Change Makers and Mrs. Bailey met together to discuss our Eco-Schools Action Plan for 2023-24.

We chose four targets for this year which you can see more detail on below.

The Change Makers also reviewed the dragon entries for our four purposes!

There were lots of amazing designs and it was a hard fought competition. Keep an eye out for the four successful entries!

Wednesday 24th May 2023

National Eco-Committee 2023 - "Global Solutions - Celebrating how people are tackling the climate and biodiversity crises"

Four members of the Change Makers alongside Mrs. Gentle, Mrs. Bailey and Miss. Davies visited the National Botanic Gardens in Carmarthen to take part in the annual National Eco-Committee meeting. The meeting involved sharing our own projects to improve biodiversity and tackle climate change at our schools.

We had a fantastic day learning about different successful solutions from around the world that help tackle climate change including:

Insect farming

Planting seagrass and mangroves in Abu Dhabi

Storing carbon dioxide in Oman

Hydrogen power

Regrowing coral reefs

Solar powered ironing carts

Seaweed forests

Ocean cleanup

3D printing of fish

We had the opportunity to chat with other schools and share our climate change work. We brought our own soil from school and took part in an experiment to identify the type of soil we had at our school.

We heard from experts on Seagrass who showed us their work and how it helps improve biodiversity around Wales. We tried seaweed as a sustainable food source. Some of us liked it, some of us didn't!

We walked around the gardens and had lunch under the glass dome.

We finished the day off with a bit of worm charming...Abercerdin were the Eco-Schools worm charming champions, our tactics helped us charm 13 worms compared to our nearest competitor's total of 5.

We enjoyed some free time in the park before heading home!