Welcome to our Eco Council

Staff Member in Charge: Mrs Felicetti

Our Action Plan (Catholic Social Teaching Principle - Looking after creation and the environment)

• Spreading the word about biodiversity
• Clearing litter to ensure an environment that is healthy for humans and all creatures.
• Reducing our own rubbish: by reducing, reusing, recycling and respecting our planet.

What is Eco Schools?

Eco-Schools is a global programme engaging 19.5 million children across 67 countries, making it the largest educational programme on the planet.

Eco-Schools has been empowering children to drive change and improve their environmental awareness through the simple Seven-Step framework in order to achieve the international Eco-Schools Green Flag award, for some years.

Meet Our Eco Schools Council

We have set up our Eco-School Council, which includes children from every class from Year 1 to Year 6.  The children on the Eco Council all care about the environment and so we have a vast array of children in different year groups.  The older children work with the younger children and we all discuss what our school is really good at and there are many items in this category (not many schools have fire pits, raised beds, school pets and prayer gardens), and what we can do to help to make our school even more eco friendly.  We meet each week to discuss our way forward and the improvements we can make.

These are our focus areas:

Biodiversity

Energy

Global Citizenship

Healthy Living

Litter

Marine

School Grounds

Transport

Waste

Water

Areas for Development 

1) Litter - we are hoping to set up a system where each class maintains their own classroom and playground area in the short term, with posters and compost buckets etc. In the longer term we have been invited to take part in local schemes too! 

2) Biodiversity - When the Eco Council carried out our school audit, many children did not know what the word meant.  The Eco Council are going to produce a PowerPoint about what it is and how it impacts on all of our lives.  

3) Rubbish - We would like to reduce the amount of rubbish we produce (most especially in packed lunches) such as cling film and silver foil.  We are going to ask the children in school to gather up plastic take away containers, which we will decorate and show all children how this recycling helps to reduce rubbish.