Newham Sustainable Schools EcoNetwork
The EcoNetwork brings together all the individuals and organisations that can help you on your eco-journey, from the LBN Energy Unit right through to “sustainable poo” resources via Thames Water! We meet to discuss the NSS programme, sharing our experiences and looking at common problems which schools experience on their sustainability journeys.
We will be posting their smiling faces and contact details soon.
Details of some organisations we have worked with are below. Some of the names you will recognise and a few you won't!.
In the meantime please contact us here with any queries or requests for support.
Ray Lagden,
Maintenance Delivery Manager, Thames Water
Ray has worked for Thames Water for 29 years. He started as an apprentice mechanical fitter moving to supervise and lead maintenance teams in the East London area delivering planned, corrective and emergency maintenance to sewage works and sewage pumping stations, ensuring equipment is maintained and repaired, delivering a robust service to the customer. His experience and expertise are in waste water and he is a volunteer community speaker for Thames Water, mainly speaking in schools in East and North London. He is an ex Rugby player and referee, and keen cricketer and golfer (weather permitting).
Davina Alvares,
Contracts Administrator, Procurement Team, LBN
Gillian Shine, Buying Assistant, Procurement Team, LBN
Our work at Strategic Procurement reflects the Council’s steer on delivering a“cleaner, greener” Newham through an approach
to procurement that is both financially and environmentally sustainable. Most Newham Schools use the Council's corporate contracts e.g. paper, photocopiers, stationery etc. which provide a range of products which are recycled and/or environmentally friendly.
Davina is responsible for managing some of the corporate contracts that are currently being utilised by LBN with the potential opportunity for schools. Sustainability has been considered within these and we pride ourselves on this. Davina
recycle frequently at home and encourages others to do so as well. She has a compost bin to recycle all vegetable scraps to produce compost for the garden.
Gillian is responsible for procuring the corporate contracts that are being utilised by the schools and looking where we can be sustainable in these contracts. Gillian actively recycles where she can and is conscious of her impact on the planet.
Community Links
Community Links are an innovative east London charity, running a wide range of community projects for 30,000 people
every year. Based in Newham, they have over 30 years of experience working with local people to support children, young people, adults and families. Through their national work, they share lessons with government and community groups
across the country to achieve social change.
Carbon Footprint Detective Agency
CFDA is a joint project of Immediate Theatre with Newham Sustainable Schools. It started life as a drama production for primary pupils aged 7 to 11 in 2008 – and subsequently developed into a project consisting of a package of shows, lessons
and drama workshops, designed to embed behaviour change in schools – which would lead to saving energy. The CFDA
show is a cartoon-like caper in which the four energy-using ‘Wasters’ (Pollution Penny, Chuck, and The Foot Fiend, led by the wicked Dr Electron) are thwarted by three experienced detectives from the Carbon Footprint Detective Agency (Chief
Big Toe, Detective Danni and Sergeant Supersaver) and their newest, raw recruit, Tim Can. Pupils follow the story
of novice Tim Can, as he tries to prove himself as a detective, takes on the Wasters single-handed, and is saved by his friends. Then the whole CFDA work together to vanquish Pollution Penny, the littering Chuck and the fuel-guzzling Foot Fiend, and to reduce Dr Electron, the maddest electricity-user of all time, to a manageable size.
Jan Reed
Jan is the Coordinator of Newham Sustainable Schools. A psychologist with a passion for sustainable communities, Jan has
worked within education and the public sector for 25 years. Most recently as LBN Carbon Reduction Manager and previously as Group Manager of the LBN Health Education Advisory Team. She has written and developed educational resources and programmes that have been celebrated nationally and internationally and is a director of www.wildgarlic.net.
Nick Reed
Nick is committed to developing communities through the arts and environmentalism. A successful fundraiser, he has over 20 years' experience of building management, school and organisational development and is a nationally experienced Eco-Schools Assessor, adviser and trainer. Reednick66@yahoo.com
Michaela Edgar, Education Officer, Recycle for your Community
Michaela delivers environmental education projects in schools across four East London boroughs, developing programme resources such as staff training, lesson plans and school activities. Ongoing contact and engagement with schools is provided
to support school progress on environmental issues whilst also supporting members of staff, building capacity within each
school.
Jon Hastings, Waste Reduction & Disposal Manager, LBN
Jon joined Newham Council in 2011, and now manages a small team looking after recycling and waste reduction projects. Working in partnership with the East London Waste Authority and the London Boroughs of Havering, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham, the Recycling Team is actively involved in the Recycle for Your Community project, which delivers communications campaigns, engagement events and education programmes across the four boroughs. The team also works with Shanks Waste Management to provide recycling facilities for schools in Newham.
Sally Shadrack, Catering Development Manager,
LBN / Newham Partnership Working
Sally monitors the school meals catering service ensuring that a high quality, nutritious meal service is provided in both primary and secondary schools. Standards of hygiene are monitored within school kitchens and checks are made to ensure compliance with the government food standards. Sally works with schools and the catering provider to ensure that there is a whole school approach to healthy eating with the aim to increase the numbers taking school meals.
Sally is currently working with Newham Catering Services to achieve the Food for Life Catering Mark ensuring more food is cooked from raw ingredients and sustainably sourced. Sally also pays the school meal bills - 85% children in our primary schools are having free meals every day. Advice is given on kitchen design. Sally ensures all refurbished/new kitchens meet the high meal numbers of meals produced having labour saving, energy efficient catering equipment.
Sally enjoys nothing better than visiting schools and hearing what children think of their meals. Her hobbies are doing up her old cottage and has she just got a Beagle puppy who is lots of fun and is keeping her fit by filling in all the holes he
has dug in the garden!
Liz Shearer,
Project Officer, Active Park Team, LBN
Liz has worked with Newham Council since 2009 and coordinates activity in Newham's Parks and open spaces. Work includes
working with friends groups to improve parks; consulting with local community on improvements and Master Planning Parks; community gardens development; managing Active Parks programme - getting residents active in Newham's parks with a range
of activity programmes; promoting school access to parks and open spaces. Liz has previously worked in another local authority managing a visitor centre and created an outdoor education programme with RSPB on the local nature
reserves.
Richard Wadey, School Travel Advisor, LBN
The LBN Safety Education Team work with schools in Newham to produce School Travel Plans, monitoring travel patterns and putting actions in place to mitigate car use and congestion, and promote safe, healthy, and more sustainable travel.
This includes providing road safety education to students, cycle training to students and staff, physical measures outside the school gates ,and access to internal and external funding streams.
Felix Onyeji, Energy Conservation Unit, LBN
LBN Energy Conservation Unit purchases all the council's energy under a competitive bulk tendering process that provides energy costs consistently lower than the average market price. The unit carries out energy surveys and is available for providing advice on all matters concerning energy. It is responsible for measuring the carbon footprint of all Newham’s buildings in accordance with the Carbon Reduction Commitment.
We will be posting their smiling faces and contact details soon.
Details of some organisations we have worked with are below. Some of the names you will recognise and a few you won't!.
In the meantime please contact us here with any queries or requests for support.
Ray Lagden,
Maintenance Delivery Manager, Thames Water
Ray has worked for Thames Water for 29 years. He started as an apprentice mechanical fitter moving to supervise and lead maintenance teams in the East London area delivering planned, corrective and emergency maintenance to sewage works and sewage pumping stations, ensuring equipment is maintained and repaired, delivering a robust service to the customer. His experience and expertise are in waste water and he is a volunteer community speaker for Thames Water, mainly speaking in schools in East and North London. He is an ex Rugby player and referee, and keen cricketer and golfer (weather permitting).
Davina Alvares,
Contracts Administrator, Procurement Team, LBN
Gillian Shine, Buying Assistant, Procurement Team, LBN
Our work at Strategic Procurement reflects the Council’s steer on delivering a“cleaner, greener” Newham through an approach
to procurement that is both financially and environmentally sustainable. Most Newham Schools use the Council's corporate contracts e.g. paper, photocopiers, stationery etc. which provide a range of products which are recycled and/or environmentally friendly.
Davina is responsible for managing some of the corporate contracts that are currently being utilised by LBN with the potential opportunity for schools. Sustainability has been considered within these and we pride ourselves on this. Davina
recycle frequently at home and encourages others to do so as well. She has a compost bin to recycle all vegetable scraps to produce compost for the garden.
Gillian is responsible for procuring the corporate contracts that are being utilised by the schools and looking where we can be sustainable in these contracts. Gillian actively recycles where she can and is conscious of her impact on the planet.
Community Links
Community Links are an innovative east London charity, running a wide range of community projects for 30,000 people
every year. Based in Newham, they have over 30 years of experience working with local people to support children, young people, adults and families. Through their national work, they share lessons with government and community groups
across the country to achieve social change.
Carbon Footprint Detective Agency
CFDA is a joint project of Immediate Theatre with Newham Sustainable Schools. It started life as a drama production for primary pupils aged 7 to 11 in 2008 – and subsequently developed into a project consisting of a package of shows, lessons
and drama workshops, designed to embed behaviour change in schools – which would lead to saving energy. The CFDA
show is a cartoon-like caper in which the four energy-using ‘Wasters’ (Pollution Penny, Chuck, and The Foot Fiend, led by the wicked Dr Electron) are thwarted by three experienced detectives from the Carbon Footprint Detective Agency (Chief
Big Toe, Detective Danni and Sergeant Supersaver) and their newest, raw recruit, Tim Can. Pupils follow the story
of novice Tim Can, as he tries to prove himself as a detective, takes on the Wasters single-handed, and is saved by his friends. Then the whole CFDA work together to vanquish Pollution Penny, the littering Chuck and the fuel-guzzling Foot Fiend, and to reduce Dr Electron, the maddest electricity-user of all time, to a manageable size.
Jan Reed
Jan is the Coordinator of Newham Sustainable Schools. A psychologist with a passion for sustainable communities, Jan has
worked within education and the public sector for 25 years. Most recently as LBN Carbon Reduction Manager and previously as Group Manager of the LBN Health Education Advisory Team. She has written and developed educational resources and programmes that have been celebrated nationally and internationally and is a director of www.wildgarlic.net.
Nick Reed
Nick is committed to developing communities through the arts and environmentalism. A successful fundraiser, he has over 20 years' experience of building management, school and organisational development and is a nationally experienced Eco-Schools Assessor, adviser and trainer. Reednick66@yahoo.com
Michaela Edgar, Education Officer, Recycle for your Community
Michaela delivers environmental education projects in schools across four East London boroughs, developing programme resources such as staff training, lesson plans and school activities. Ongoing contact and engagement with schools is provided
to support school progress on environmental issues whilst also supporting members of staff, building capacity within each
school.
Jon Hastings, Waste Reduction & Disposal Manager, LBN
Jon joined Newham Council in 2011, and now manages a small team looking after recycling and waste reduction projects. Working in partnership with the East London Waste Authority and the London Boroughs of Havering, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham, the Recycling Team is actively involved in the Recycle for Your Community project, which delivers communications campaigns, engagement events and education programmes across the four boroughs. The team also works with Shanks Waste Management to provide recycling facilities for schools in Newham.
Sally Shadrack, Catering Development Manager,
LBN / Newham Partnership Working
Sally monitors the school meals catering service ensuring that a high quality, nutritious meal service is provided in both primary and secondary schools. Standards of hygiene are monitored within school kitchens and checks are made to ensure compliance with the government food standards. Sally works with schools and the catering provider to ensure that there is a whole school approach to healthy eating with the aim to increase the numbers taking school meals.
Sally is currently working with Newham Catering Services to achieve the Food for Life Catering Mark ensuring more food is cooked from raw ingredients and sustainably sourced. Sally also pays the school meal bills - 85% children in our primary schools are having free meals every day. Advice is given on kitchen design. Sally ensures all refurbished/new kitchens meet the high meal numbers of meals produced having labour saving, energy efficient catering equipment.
Sally enjoys nothing better than visiting schools and hearing what children think of their meals. Her hobbies are doing up her old cottage and has she just got a Beagle puppy who is lots of fun and is keeping her fit by filling in all the holes he
has dug in the garden!
Liz Shearer,
Project Officer, Active Park Team, LBN
Liz has worked with Newham Council since 2009 and coordinates activity in Newham's Parks and open spaces. Work includes
working with friends groups to improve parks; consulting with local community on improvements and Master Planning Parks; community gardens development; managing Active Parks programme - getting residents active in Newham's parks with a range
of activity programmes; promoting school access to parks and open spaces. Liz has previously worked in another local authority managing a visitor centre and created an outdoor education programme with RSPB on the local nature
reserves.
Richard Wadey, School Travel Advisor, LBN
The LBN Safety Education Team work with schools in Newham to produce School Travel Plans, monitoring travel patterns and putting actions in place to mitigate car use and congestion, and promote safe, healthy, and more sustainable travel.
This includes providing road safety education to students, cycle training to students and staff, physical measures outside the school gates ,and access to internal and external funding streams.
Felix Onyeji, Energy Conservation Unit, LBN
LBN Energy Conservation Unit purchases all the council's energy under a competitive bulk tendering process that provides energy costs consistently lower than the average market price. The unit carries out energy surveys and is available for providing advice on all matters concerning energy. It is responsible for measuring the carbon footprint of all Newham’s buildings in accordance with the Carbon Reduction Commitment.
