“The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to take action.”
David Attenborough
Our Eco team consists of children from Year 2 to Year 6 who are very passionate about helping the environment and the world around us. We meet regularly each half term to carry out work and activities linked to areas such as Biodiversity, Litter, Recycling, Healthy living, Marine, Transport, Energy and Waste, to maintain our Green Flag Award. We have a whole school action plan, driven by the children, which is updated regularly and an eco-code which we work hard to follow. Information about what we do can be found on our eco notice board, near the office/Reception desk.
Our Eco Code
We are an Eco School
Everyone can do their bit to help the planet
Stop travelling by car and walk to school
Team up and litterpick
Only use what you need
Ensure you reduce, reuse and recycle
Care for wildlife
Respect the environment
Oceans matter
We can all make a difference
Nothing is impossible!
We are working towards the renewal of the Eco Schools Green Flag award- our most recent renewal was in 2025 and our first Green Flag was awarded in 2011.
This year we are focusing on the following topics:
- Energy
- Waste
- School Grounds
All classes participate in Living Streets ‘Wow’ Walk to School Challenge. Every day we fill in a travel tracker which shows how we travel to school. If we travel actively (walk, scoot, cycle, park and stride) at least once a week, we receive a badge at the end of the month!
Our fantastic litter team helps keep our school grounds clean and litter free.
We also sponsor a child who lives in Sierra Leone through the charity World Vision. The money we send helps to transform the lives of our sponsor child, her family and her community. In the past we have sponsored children from Malawi and Mozambique.
Our Eco team members are encouraged to share information across the school, ensuring that the wider school community are involved and participate in their own eco projects in lessons such as Science, Literacy and Geography etc.
Some of this Curriculum work has included:
- Year 1 made a large bug hotel for the KS1 yard.
- Year 4 children made sea creatures out of plastic bottles and bags to highlight plastic pollution in the sea.
- Reception did a class assembly linked to marine animals and pollution and the story ‘Somebody swallowed Stanley’ by Sarah Roberts.
- Year 1 did lots of work linked to bird watching, including writing recounts in Literacy and a class assembly.
- We had an after school litter picking club involving children and their parents.
- Workshops led by a beekeeper teaching children about the importance of honeybees and their impact on the environment.
- Making bird feeders out of recycled materials.
- Creating new signs for the bins in the yard.
- All year groups took part in Outdoor Classroom Day.
Recent work carried out by the Eco Team…
Over the years we have made a difference to our school environment in lots of ways.
We made hedgehog houses
We made a large mural out of plastic bottle tops to promote the key message that plastics are destroying our oceans’ eco- systems!
We did a school route audit with Living Streets
We made a bug hotel for the garden
We took part in the RSPB’s Big Schools’ Birdwatching event –
We created raised flowerbeds to attract more wildlife
We made butterflies and bees from old plastic bottles