Junior Wardens

St Malachy’s Primary School collected an impressive 19 bags of rubbish!

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Yes!!! We collected 19 Bags full of rubbish!

Year 5 pupils from St Malachys Primary School Picked up litter from around the Bank Edge Road & Turner Avenue South area on Monday 23rd of May 2022.

The pupils were supported by North Halifax Partnership’s Ward Link workers Karen Scanlon and Dan Marham and Community Warden Lee Ackroyd.

A Junior Warden scheme will start this September at St Malachy’s primary and year 5 pupils will have the opportunity to join.

Keep an eye out for more fantastic work in your neighbourhood by these young people!

   

 

Dean Field Community Primary School wardens litterpick produced 8 bags full

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Junior Wardens from Dean Field Community Primary School collected 8 bags full of rubbish from the local area with Karen Scanlon from the North Halifax Partnership.

Before the litter pick, Natalie Ratner Community Organiser showed the Junior Wardens some very interesting finds from previous litter picks in the neighbourhood.

Look out for the upcoming activities by the Dean Field Junior Wardens for 2022!

   

     

   

Ovenden Junior Wardens meet The SCG Partnership 

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The newly formed Junior Wardens at Dean Field Community Primary School had the opportunity to meet the Safer Cleaner Greener Partnership on Wednesday 13 October 2021

A Q&A session was held with SCG partners including the CMBC Recycling Team, West Yorkshire Police, Together Housing, Ward Councillors and The North Halifax Partnership who spoke to the Junior Wardens  to give them an insight of their day to day job roles and discussed how the Junior Wardens can work in partnership with them and be involved in small scale activities throughout the year to help make a difference to their local community.

Karen Scanlon said 

“The Junior warden scheme is a team of children and young people who are dedicated to helping clean their environment and assist in helping to improve their community’s overall quality of life.”

“As a team we will work to identify environmental and safety problems within our area and report them. Encourage friends, family and our community to look after the environment and the safety of others and be proud of where we live and help make our neighbourhood a better place to live.”

The Junior Warden scheme has been set up again at Dean Field Community Primary School to look at tackling issues within the Ovenden community so be sure to keep an eye out for any future work being done.

Recycling team visit Moorside Junior Wardens

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On Monday 2 December 2019, Moorside Community Primary School Junior Wardens had a visit from Calderdale Council’s Waste Management team members Yvonne Hagan and Chris Crossley who held a very fun and informative session.

The session aimed to get the message across on how to recycle over the festive period with the amount of plastic, cardboard and wrappers that come from gifts and sweets over Christmas.

The junior wardens thoroughly enjoyed the session and seemed keen to put the knowledge into action to help make the environment more friendly.

Look out for future updates from our Junior Wardens Schemes throughout North & East Halifax.

Dean Field Junior Wardens meet the Community Organisers

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Junior Wardens from Dean Field Community Primary School took part in a session provided by Community Organisers, Natalie and Jaime.

The session focused on what matters to the Junior Wardens within their neighbourhood, what they love about where they live, what their dream neighbourhood looks like and how they would change it if they had an unlimited amount of money.

The junior wardens were keen participants in the session and came up with some fantastic  ideas, suggestions and thoughts.

A common theme with some of the things the junior wardens don’t like appeared to have an environmentally friendly feel to it, such as the amount of litter and plastics on the streets as well as too many cars on the road.

It was established that should they have an unlimited amount of money we would see things such as all pets/animals in need being rescued, cars not creating any atmospheric gases among lots of other creative ideas.

Overall the session was enjoyed by the Junior Wardens from Dean Field

Moorside Junior Wardens meet the SCG Partnership

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Junior Wardens from Moorside Community Primary School had the opportunity to meet the Safer Cleaner Greener Partnership on Monday 7 October 2019.

A Q&A session was held with SCG partners including the CMBC Recycling Team,  Anti-social Behavior Officer and Active Calderdale who spoke to the Junior Wardens  to give them an insight of their day to day job roles and discussed how the Junior Wardens can work in partnership with them and be involved in small scale activities throughout the year to help make a difference to their local community.

Karen Scanlon said

“The Junior warden scheme is a team of children and young people who are dedicated to helping clean their environment and assist in helping to improve their community’s overall quality of life.”

“As a team we will work to identify environmental and safety problems within our area and report them. Encourage friends, family and our community to look after the environment and the safety of others and be proud of where we live and help make our neighbourhood a better place to live.”

The Junior Warden scheme has been set up again at Moorside Community Primary School to look at tackling issues within the Ovenden community so be sure to keep an eye out for any future work being done.

Dean Field Junior Wardens tackle a very smelly problem

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Dean Field Junior Wardens have got a message for flytippers and litter bugs everywhere – You Stink! 

In just 30 minutes this team of young people collected six very smelly and very full large bags of discarded rubbish mostly made up of plastic and cans from the area surrounding their school. 

“It feels good to be able to do something to make my community better but I just don’t understand why people can’t just find a bin, or take their rubbish home”, said Josh aged 10.

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To follow on from the clean up the Junior Wardens will be visiting a local SUEZ Recycling and Recovery site to hear more about their vision for a society where there is no more waste. 

Over the course of a year,  Suez handle over 10 million tonnes of waste in the UK. They believe waste is a resource and have a goal to help create a circular economy in which nearly all waste materials are given a second life and reused, recycled or recovered for their energy content.

Waste left on the ground, especially plastic waste causes pollution, looks unsightly and the value from these recyclable materials is never recovered.  For more information about Suez, visit the website here…