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Climate Champions Competition

The Welsh Assembly Government today (20 September 2007) launched a competition to find four Climate Change Champions for Wales.

To enter, young people are being asked to send in a news report demonstrating how they will encourage their friends, family, school or community to help tackle climate change. The Champions will become spokespeople for climate change in Wales and will take part in a European climate change expedition in February 2008.

Click here for more information about the competition and to download an entry form:

www.wales.gov.uk/ccc4w

Click here to read the press release launching the competition:

http://new.wales.gov.uk/topics/environmentcountryside/climate_change/ccnewscentre/ccnews/190907climatechampion?lang=en

^{FREE MAPS for 11 year olds - 2007}

To order maps for your school click on "Go to login page" below and enter your username and password, as supplied in your letter, complete your order and submit.

http://freemaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/freemapsfor11yearolds/login.jsp

Schools Competition

“Happy 50^th Birthday Europe !”

The European Union is celebrating its 50^th birthday on 25 March 2007, exactly 50 years after the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957, creating the European Economic Community. Now, half a century later, the European Union is at the forefront of underpinning prosperity, solidarity, peace and stability in Wales, Europe and the world.

To mark this occasion, the Welsh Assembly Government, the British Council and the European Commission have together launched a primary school competition in Wales to design a birthday card for Europe.

 European Competition.doc (size 74.8 KB)

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

A copy of "An Inconvenient Truth" (the book and the DVD ) will be distributed to all secondary schools in Wales by the WAG this term.

Ordnance Survey

Free Ordnance Survey maps for Year 7/Primary 7 pupils 2006.

It’s the fifth birthday of the Free maps scheme

The site is now open for ordering your free 1:25 000 scale Explorer Maps for your Year 7/Primary 7 pupils.

This offer is only open to schools throughout Great Britain that teach Year 7/Primary 7 pupils.

For more information go to our website www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk

If you have year 7 pupils and have not received a letter please, contact our Customer Helpline on 08456 05 05 05

Wales in Bloom

Wales in Bloom is a Competition covering the whole of WALES. It has 22 categories including one for Schools Gardeing.

COPPERWORKS SCHOOL, Llanelli was 3rd in the 2005 "Class 21 - Schools Gardening" category

Read about the competitions and the winners since 2002 at the web site.

Wales in Bloom

J8 is the official youth event of the G8. In small teams, students have to develop a G8-style Communique focusing on key issues to be discussed at the G8 Summit 2006:energy security, education, infectious diseases and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The entries are short listed by country and displayed online so all participants can vote for their favourite communique. For more information visit the J8 site on www.j8summit.com/The_J8_Competition_2006/

Take part in the experiment

Your computer can perform billions of calculations a second. donate the potential you're not using, and take part in the world's largest climate experiment. For more information visit the BBC site on http://www.bbc.co.uk.climate