In Clontuskert 5th and 6th class conducted a survey to find out what the students in our school know about paper. We asked each student eleven questions. We then counted up the results for each question. For some questions we had to calculate the percentage or the average. Then using excel we converted our data in graphs. We hope you enjoy our presentation.

5th and 6th Class

Most of the pupils know that it is made from paper but some of the infants thought it was made from food or didn’t know.

We will have to teach the infants that it is made from trees.

More than ½ of the school say they do not know how paper is made.

We will have to teach the others everything about paper.

We will be learning about paper and a lecturer from Galway University is coming to visit us and teach us some interesting facts about paper.

The majority of the pupils (45%) thought that more than ½ of Ireland is covered by forests and only 21% thought it was less than ¼.

10.7% of Ireland is covered by forests so the answer is less than ¼.

In this question we grouped the various answers into different categories

Art: Crepe paper, tissue paper, card etc. Stationary: Copies, books, posters etc. Sanitary: Hand towels, kitchen paper, etc. Containers: bags, boxes etc. Other The things that were said the most were in

the stationary category. The things that were said the least were in the container category.

This is similar to question 4, different categories instead of about 30 different things lined across below the graph.

Most of the children think of items of stationary such as copies and books when they think of paper in school.

Most of the pupils said that stationary items are used at school.

Only 2% of the school said containers, 20% said sanitary and 25% said art.

97% of the school said yes which is good in one way but bad in another because 3% of our green flag school said no.

In our school we seperate our waste into three binsCompost – organic material like fruit goes into our

compost bin and is used in our gardenRecycling – paper, plastic, cardboard goes in our

recycling binLandfill – material that cannot be placed in

compost or recycling bins goes to landfillLast year we received a Green flag which means

we are an eco-school and that we recycle most of our material.

33 pupils said that we do sort our waste and only 4 said that we don’t which is very good.

The correct answer was yes we do sort our waste.

Most of the students (62%) said less than ½ of paper goes to waste.26% said more than ¼ goes to waste and 11% said less than ¼ is wasted.

A very small percentage of our paper goes to waste as we recycle as much as we can.

We are calculating the exact amount of paper we use per year.

Each week we record how many packs of paper we use.

In this graph we worked the amounts out using averages.

The most amount of people (16 pupils) said it takes 15-20 trees to make a ton and only 4 people said it takes 5-10 trees.

It is calculated that, based on a mixture of softwoods and hardwoods 40 feet tall and 6-8 inches in diameter, it would take a rough average of 24 trees to produce a ton of printing and writing paper, using the kraft chemical (freesheet) pulping process.

1 ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper uses 24 trees

1 ton of 100% virgin (non-recycled) newsprint uses 12 trees