This year the eco council have split into two smaller groups. Mrs Bowie leads the KS2 group and Miss Lowe leads the EYFS and KS1 group. We are aiming to maintain our green award with a mertit status as an eco-school and build on the work we have done in previous years. We are very proud to be an eco-school and all of our eco team are committed to making our school more eco-friendly and having a positive impact on the world we live in.
What happened in the Autumn Term?
- Each class voted for their representative.
- The eco team met with Mrs Bowie and Miss Lowe to complete an eco-review of our school.
- The key stage two team met to discuss our eco-review and decide which 3 areas they wanted to focus on.
- They decided on:
Biodiversity 
Global Citizenship 
Litter
We worked together to create an action plan that will help us to focus on the areas we want to work on and improve in our school.
Here are some minutes from meetings we have taken part in this year. There is one set of minutes from each term, but if you want to know anything else please ask your eco member!
What has happened in our school throughout the year?
Here are some of the exciting things that have happened in our school across the year linked to our 3 focus areas of biodiversity, global citizenship and litter. Some of these events have been organised by the eco council and some have been organised by other staff and children in school. Our eco work really is spreading across the whole school community!
Keep checking back as this page regularly updated!
Global Citizenship
The school council and RE ambassadors worked together with Mrs Iqbal and Miss Lowe to organise a collection for the foodbank. Our links with Curry on the Street started a few years ago and we are proud to continue supporting them as a school. Have a look at the school council page to see our wonderful students in the local newspaper!
This year we held our first whole school Iftar event. This was a wonderful way to bring our school community together. The food was served by our school staff and everyone commented on what a wonderful event it was. Miss Quadri and the Year 6 children did a fantastic job organising this for our school.
The year 3 children have taken part in the Schools Linking Project this year. The aim of the project is to build community cohesion. The children have loved meeting new people and finding out about their similarities and differences. During the trip to Burnley Youth Theatre the children shared curiosity questions with each other. They are aiming to finish the project with a joint social action project.
Healthy Living
There have been lots of visits to our school garden this year for many of our classes. The children have had lots of fun playing in the garden, looking at the bug hotels and smelling the flowers.
The children in our gardening club have created wind chimes using natural resources, recycled materials and lots of imagination! We hope the classes enjoy them when they are taking part in their mindfulness sessions outside.
KS2 had some special visitors this year who led fun workshops about feelings and emotions and how we can manage them. The children all responded wonderfully and learnt lots.
Litter
Our eco council have spent a lot of time identifying litter hotspots in our school grounds and the surrounding area before we took part in the Big School Clean this year. Lots of children took part and the eco team are keen to keep up regular litter picks to help our local community.
Here are our youngest members of our school family doing their bit during the Big School Clean. Well done EYFS!
We are really proud that some of families have borrowed our litter picking equipment to help us tackle these areas at the weekend. If your family would like to complete a litter pick please speak to Mrs Bowie and she can organise the equipment for you.
Previous Eco Council Work
As a school, we took part in 'Bags 2 School' fundraiser in Spring of 2024. We brought in 170kg of clothes, textiles and toys from home which were recycled or repurposed. This means there was 170kg less waste going to landfill and we raised some funds for school.
The KS2 members of the eco council did a whole school assembly in March 2024.
They taught the whole school about the Great British Spring Clean. Every year group in school then went away and took part in a litter pick on our school grounds, or in the local area. It was wonderful to see so many children taking part in this project and to hear how keen so many pupils were to take positive social action in their local community.
This initative was repeated in March 2025 when the whole school took part in the Great British Spring Clean again.
