Eco Council
"The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history." King Charles III
King Charles has been a vocal advocate for environmental action and sustainability throughout his life.
Genesis 1:27: "God said to human beings, 'Fill the earth with people and look after it. Care for all that I have made.'"
Our Eco Council members help us to remember our reponsibilites to help look after God's wonderful world. We have earned our Eco Award with Distinction and are very proud of the work we do within our school to help the planet and share this with our pupils and their families. We haave chose our Curriculum themes carefully and there are threads of Eco & Sustainability woven through our work in a range of subejcts. The texts we have chosen in English support this focus and make children think about the planet, how our actions can have a negative impact and the ways we can help and stop any further damage. Our Forest School and Come Outside Curriculum get our children learning and active in the outdoors and inspire them to take action for the planet.
At our school, all children grow... and we have our polytunnel area which acts as a greenhouse for our growing projects. We all love eating the food that we grow each year.
Remember - if you have any old batteries at home, please dont throw them in the bin - please bring them in to the school entrance as we collect them in school for recycling!
Take a look at the work of our Eco Council
Here are our Eco Councillors for this school year. Well done for being elected by your classmates in our elections!
Our Eco Councillors help us to recycle our paper and card every week.
Eco Council Blog
First Meeting for the Eco Council
L Walton (L.Walton) on: Eco Council Blog
During the first meeting the new team talked about what it means to be 'eco'. We talked about whose responsibility it was to look after our world and we decided it was everyone's responsibility. We brainstormed all the things we can do day-to-day in school such as put litter in the bin, recycle and make sure our lights are switched off when we are not using them. The school Eco council agreed that their first job in role is to check their own classroom has a paper recycling bin in it and to check that all the children in class and teachers know where it is.
In our next meeting we will be planning what the three focus areas are for our school this year. Great work Eco Warriors!
The ECO warriors completed the Big Schools Bird Watch and submitted their results to the RSPB. We saw lots of magpies, black headed gulls and pigeons. We saw two robins as well!
The KS2 children supported the KS1 children in identifying the type of bird, talking about the different calls, shapes and colours using an identification chart. Our school governor Mr Bennett and parent helper, Ms McDonald, helped out too.
Our Eco Councillors helped to make our Eco bricks. It takes time as we have to build up the layers slowly. We have begun to use our ECO bricks to build some furniture in our Forest School Area.