Activities throughout the week

• Be a Climate Hero - calculate your carbon footprint. The college community will be checking their carbon footprint and learn about how they can keep it down and protect the planet - Be a Climate Hero

• Recycle your football boots and shin pads to stop them ending up in landfill. Drop off your clean, undamaged football boots and shin pads at our recycling bin located at the 3G pitches located outside the Sports Pavilion.

• Uniform Public Services students will be planting trees across our Middleton campus as part of the Woodlands Conservation Project.

• The Big Spring Clean - Our Work Based Animal care students will be taking on the Big Clean Up as they do a litter pick across our Middleton campus.

• Our Animal Management department will be hosting an Enrichment Competition using recycled materials.

• Creative Arts & Media students will be showcasing their exhibition of creative work using recycled materials, highlighting environmental issues.

• Our IT shop will be open for business! Buy recycled digital equipment throughout the week from our IT students at our shop located in Henry West corridor at our Middleton campus.

• We're encouraging Team Hopwood to spare a seat for sustainability and drive together to lower our carbon footprint in our Staff Car Share Scheme.

• Unite for Sight - donate glasses to be recycled by Chichester Lions Club who redistribute them at eye clinics in Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria, and Nepal - visit Reception to donation your glasses. Collection point: iLearn Centre at both campuses.

• Crisp Packet Project - donate your clean, flat and empty crisp packets to be recycled into sleeping bags, survival blankets, bags and more for those living on the streets. Collection point: iLearn Centre at both campuses.

• Performing Arts students will be recycling theatre costumes.

• Hopwood's Big Eco-Science Experiment - The launch of a year long science experiment to investigate how well different materials compost and decompose.

• Business and IT students will be completing short online courses in safe disposal of IT and sustainable finance.

• Our Skills for Life students will be taking part in refurbing and replanting the Skills for Life garden, as well as running a Love your Left-overs week in the ThincCafe.

• Bring in your expired and unused pet medicines so our Animal Nursing staff and students can make sure they are safely disposed of. Drop off at Wardle G16.

• Drop off old towels, bedding and cardboard in Wardle G16 for recycling.

• Throughout the week, our refectories will be offering sustainable food choices.

• Students and staff will have the opportunity to bag unused rolls of wallpaper in exchange for a charitable donation. Days and times to be confirmed... watch this space.

• Our Hair and Beauty staff and students will be making Eco Pledges throughout the week.

• Come and make your own sensory boxes using recycled and upcycled resources with our Early Years department.

• Come and meet our CSI Society in the Henry West corridor. Days and times to be confirmed... keep your eyes peeled.

• Hair & Beauty students will be making natural, vegan and cruelty-free makeup and skincare products.

• Students and staff will be able to experience climate and sustainability themed Virtual Reality.

• Our Careers team will be showcasing green careers opportunities and apprenticeships in the Careers Zones at both campuses.

• Launch of the HTQ in Construction. Discover more about ground source and air source energy supplies.

MONDAY

• Hopwood's Big Eco-Science Experiment - The launch of a year long science experiment to investigate how well different materials compost and decompose.

• Taste of Game - Our Catering students will be demonstrating how to use more sustainable ingredients in cookery.

• Health and Social Care Day 1 - Creating recycling posters/boxes showing the effects of environmental/climate change.

Tuesday

• Visit our Catering team to grow your own herbs and use them in cooking.

• Early Years students will be planting seeds across our Rochdale campus, which can then be taken home and replanted in their own gardens.

• Health and Social Care Day 2 - Following on from yesterday's poster/box creation, decorate these boxes accordingly and organise the cross-college rubbish collection, tally the findings on each day.

• Visit Rochdale Council at our Middleton campus - join the climate conversation, enjoy interactive games, and gain lots of recycling advice.

WEDNEsday

• Grow your own herbs with our ESOL department.

• Our Catering experts will be demonstrating a range of meat-free dishes to cook at home.

• Early Years students will be planting trees across our Rochdale campus as part of the Woodlands Conservation Project.

• Health and Social Care Day 3 - Displaying and presenting the findings about rubbish collected across the college, and researching how the NHS are being sustainable.

• Our ESOL department, together with the RBC Environment team, will be doing their bit towards the Great British Spring Clean as they do a litter pick across our Rochdale campus.

• Visit Rochdale Council at our Rochdale campus - join the climate conversation, enjoy interactive games, and gain lots of recycling advice.

THURsday

• Animal Care students will be undertaking the Nature Pond Restoration

• Sustainability Environment Enterprise Day (SEED) - our ESOL students have lots planned for this SEED initiative including planting herbs, litter picking and recycling.

• Our Catering students will be planting herbs at the entrance to our Rochdale campus.

• Our Early Years team will be designing posters on climate change.

FRIday

• Our Animal Care department will be relaunching the staff allotments at our Middleton campus.

• Rochdale Council will be visiting ESOL students at our Rochdale campus, talking all things recycling and sustainability.