We are an Eco-School!
We are very excited to share that we have been awarded the Eco-Schools’ Green Flag Award thanks to the hard work of our eco club last academic year.
We received lots of praise for their commitment to helping the environment from the assessor including the following:
- It’s fantastic that you have such a large Eco-Club in your school, it shows that your pupils clearly care about our planet and all plants, animals, and insects that live on it;
- Members of your Eco-Club took ownership over completing the Eco-Schools’ Environmental Review, guided by their interest, passion, and determination. It was a pleasure to read that your Eco-Club was inspired by our Environmental Review and gathered lots of ideas for their Action Plan when they completed it;
- Monitoring and Evaluation can be one of the more difficult steps of the Eco-Schools’ framework, your Eco-Club predicted this and proactively developed ways to monitor their projects from an early stage;
- We praise your Eco-Club for their wonderful efforts to keep their school updated about their Eco-Schools’ work. Delivering an assembly about their work will have taken a lot of courage, so especially well done for doing so!
What is an Eco-School and Green Flag Award?
The Eco-Schools programme provides a simple, seven-step framework that empowers young people to make a difference in their school, local community and beyond. Since 1994, millions of young people around the world have worked through the Eco-Schools Seven Steps before being recognised for their efforts with a prestigious Eco-Schools Green Flag.
Schools connect their activities to three or more of the Ten Eco-Schools Topics. These topics break large, global issues like climate change into more manageable and directed themes that prompt young people to consider environmental changes that they can make in their school and everyday lives.
This year, we will once again hold fortnightly eco-club meetings. We have twelve new members from Years 1-6. We will be updating this page and our school newsletter to tell you all about the fantastic ideas and projects that the children complete.
Miss Bishop - SMSC Lead
