Eco Pupil Group
What have we been up to?
Water
The Sustainability Pupil Voice Group have worked as advocates to share the importance of saving water in school and at home. They monitored how often the taps were being left on in classes and reported back at Pupil Voice Group meetings to discuss how we could reduce this. They also completed some random checks to see if any classes were wasting water.
At the beginning, we recorded that in classes, water was wasted every day due to people forgetting to turn off the tap! After our Eco monitors implemented the random checks and informed classes of the importance of reducing water wastage, we noticed that most of the time taps were turned off straight after use and children were more mindful when using the taps. Classes also reported to our janitor, Colin, if they noticed any dripping taps!
Biodiversity
The Sustainability Group wanted to grow their own plants too. Due to the wildlife in our forest, we find that animals can dig up our plants before they are ready. We asked Mrs McCann, our headteacher, if she could fund a small greenhouse. She was delighted with the idea and we were able to grow watercress, carrots and lettuce!
Litter
As a school, we always encourage the children to participate in litter picking. Each class has forest school sessions and allocated times to visit the woods each week. Whilst at the woods the children always have opportunities to complete a litter pick and most children are excited to do so. We always notice a difference in the litter after Forest School sessions after a school holiday where litter can be blown into our woods. The children are always keen to tidy up the woods and notice the difference after a good litter pick!
The classes also engaged with litter picks throughout the two-year period. Classes took turns at Forest School and when out on community walks to clean up our local environment.
Recycling
The Enterprise pupil group asked for donations of Halloween costumes to resell or swap before our Halloween disco and community walk. The children discussed why it is important to recycle unwanted Halloween costumes for others to use and the impact this will have on our environment.
Meeting Minutes
Sustainability Meeting Minutes 25.11.25
Sustainability Meeting Minutes 25.2.25
Sustainability Meeting Minutes 28.1.25
Sustainability Meeting Minutes 29.11.24
Sustainability Meeting Minutes 29.10.24
Sustainability Meeting Minutes 24.9.24
Sustainability Meeting Minutes 3.9.24
AUGUST 2023 A New Term
A fantastic meeting this morning , sharing ideas to spread the word about climate action, transport and keeping our environment clean and pretty. We can’t wait to get started on this years journey and very much looking forward to sharing news about walking to school.
A very busy meeting learning about how far our food travels and the benefits of eating food grown in Scotland. We also completed a questionnaire with Fiona the dinner lady to find out where we source the food for our school dinners.
March 2023 Update
February 2023 Update
December News
If you have any children’s pre-loved Christmas jumpers, we will gladly accept these to sell at our pop-up Eco Shop.
The Eco-Committee will be introducing a new initiative to encourage pupils to walk, cycle, scoot or park and ride to school. Room 12 will be piloting this and in January we hope to roll this out to all classes. Information on this has been added below.
THANK YOU
Thank you for all your very kind donations of pre-loved Halloween Costumes and helping us to help the environment by recycling. These will be on sale on Friday 28th October for 50p . If you have this year’s costume organised, then why not but next years!!!
A super meeting yesterday with Fraser and Isla telling us about their recent trip to the COS event to learn about climate action. We also organised the costumes to sell.
Please see the minutes below
Are you having a clear out ?????
Help us to recycle and look after our planet. Please donate any pre- loved Halloween Costumes or Christmas Jumpers to the Eco Committe to recycle in our Eco Shop . Please see the poster below for more details…..
minute template 23.2.22ECO Pupil Group Meeting – 23.2.22
Click on the link below to read the minutes from our last meeting
A great meeting this morning talking about the Pocket Garden Competition we hope to enter. We are on the lookout for weird and wonderful planters for our creation – pots, old wellies, plastic bottles . If you have any items that you are throwing away but may be of use we would love to take them off your hands. We are also looking for seeds, if you have any excess lying around and lastly we are looking for a small plastic greenhouse. Thank you .
We are super excited to get started!
