Eco Schools

Intent

We aim to give all children as much experience as they can to love the world around them and make sense of it. We give the children responsibilities to help look after our class and school, which develops respect for our town and world.

We aim to nurture knowledge, kindness, wisdom, and desire to make our school a more eco-friendly place and ultimately to be part of a more sustainable world. We promote awareness of national campaigns to highlight ways to respect the environment.

Our Values – Eco Schools

Implementation

The Eco-Schools programme is focused on ten key topics. These are:

Biodiversity

Energy

Global Citizenship

Healthy Living

Litter

Marine

School Grounds

Transport

Waste

Water

The Eco School committee complete an environmental review and this raises which areas the school are going to work on during the year.

The children then work on targets as a school and join in national campaigns to help achieve these targets, these then go towards a Green Flag Award.

Each year the children take part in:

Road Safety Week - Brake

Switch Off Fortnight - The Pod

Big Schools’ Birdwatch – RSPB

Fairtrade Fortnight

Waste Week – The Pod

Walk to School Week – Living Streets

The Eco-Committee prepared for a visit from some assessors to see if our school can achieve the Green Flag Award. We are pleased to say that we were awarded this.

A big well done to everyone for taking part in our switch off electricity morning. The children have realised how many things use electricity.

The children have made posters and each class now has a light monitor. More children are remembering to turn off the lights which is saving energy and helping to save the planet.

Take a look at some of our work