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Eco Schools
Eco-Schools is an international award programme that guides schools on their sustainable journey, providing a framework to help embed these principles into the heart of school life.
The Eco-Schools framework consists of seven elements:
1. Eco-Committee
2. Environmental Review
3. Action Plan
4. Involving the whole school and wider
community
5. Linking to the curriculum
6. Monitoring and evaluation
7. Eco-Code
The framework supports schools working on different environmental and sustainable topics. There are nine topics that you can choose to work on.
Nine topics:
1. Energy
2. Water
3. Biodiversity
4. School grounds
5. Healthy living
6. Transport
7. Litter
8. Waste
9. Global citizenship
As you know we have achieved Eco Schools status and the Green Flag Award. Eco Club meet regularly with Mrs Platts and Miss Travis to work on Green issues in school. This year they are working on
- biodiversity in the school garden by building new bug hotels and adding more bird feeders
- waste by encouraging more recyling in school
- litter by litter picking in and around the school grounds
- energy and water by showing our peers how to save energy and water
- transport by encouraging sustainable travelAs part of this work Eco Club have created a 5 minute walk zone around school. They would like families to park outside this zone and then walk to school.
Recycle Man defeats Dr Rubbish
We were very lucky to have a visit from Recycle Man this week! He managed to stop Dr Rubbish from his evil plan of turning the country into landfill and stopping us from carrying out the 3Rs – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. We helped Recycle Man to sort the rubbish that...
Our first Green Day
On Wednesday 29th June we had our first Green Day in school. Everyone wore something green and some children even painted their faces! We started the day with an assembly by Action for Stannington which helped us to understand how important recycling is. After that we...