Christmas Cards
Did you know that on average we receive (and possibly throw away) 17 cards each on average - that's over 100 million cards.
The Woodland Trust offer a recycling scheme, and there are posters that you can download for use in your school. I always arrange a collection in the Geography Department and then take several thousand of them in one go to Tesco to reduce the carbon footprint of the school (allegedly) Why not organise a local collection, and perhaps publicise it ?

Also came across the Christmas Song Generator from Generator Blog

So here it is, merry Christmas,
Everybody's having fun.
Look to the geography now,
It's only just begun.

Merry Christmas
from the Christmas Song Generator.

Get your own song :

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