Eco Warriors                   

Welcome to our ECO page 

Here, you can meet our ECO Warriors, find out what we are up to and get involved with some of our upcoming activities at home.

Our ECO Warriors will be working hard to keep our school and environment clean and safe.

Some of the activities we will be doing this year are:

• ½ termly litter picks around the school grounds.
• Carrying out our Environmental review.
• Creating an action plan for the year.
• Making bird feeders.
• Switch off fortnight – This promotes the importance of saving energy.
• Growing and planting seeds.
• Developing our own vegetable patch in the pond area.
• Waste week – This promotes recycling.
• Bee day – more information to follow.
• Potato growing competition.
• Litter Pick at Lewsey Park.

ECO Warriors meet every week on Thursday lunchtime with Mrs Wilson and Miss McMurray. In our meetings, we think of ways to reduce our carbon footprint, keep our environment clean and safe, how to recycle and most importantly how to involve the whole school in fun activities that promotes us as an ECO friendly school.

Our 1^st jobs will be to complete this year’s environmental review and come up with an action plan of ways to make our school more environmentally friendly.

 Alongside this, we will be getting ready for ‘Switch Off Fortnight’. This is where we spy on the classes for two weeks at lunch to see if they have remembered to turn off their lights, computers and TV screens. Each week the class with the most eco-friendly points will get a certificate and the least eco-friendly class will get the spoon of shame! Saving energy is always an important issue to raise with the children due to global warming, but this year it is particularly important to draw attention to the rise in energy costs too.

Eco Warriors 2024-2025

 Trashy       

This is Trashy. He is our ECO mascot. Trashy was designed a few years ago as part of an ECO DAY competition. 

You will find Trashy all around the school, Trashy helps us to remember to be ECO friendly by turning off the lights, keeping the external doors shut to save our heating and he helps us to promote recycling inside and outside of school.

Our Eco Code

Eco-Schools Silver Award

The Eco Warriors have worked hard this term to organise Saving the Bees. Together with Miss Jones the Science Co-ordinator, we were able to achieve The Eco-Schools Silver Award. We are so happy with this news. 

We started growing a vegetable patch and making more use of our Poly tunnel in the pond area. All produce grown within school will be offered to our school kitchen and the local community. Keep your eyes peeled for any changes you may see when passing by! 

Past Projects:

Bird Feeders

We made bird feeders! We were very lucky to had help from the guests at Time for Tea too. We then sold them on the playground. 

A big thank you to all the parents and children who bought, donated and helped make bird feeders. We have raised over £30, a record! The money was taken to Rushmere Park, a local country park which is often visited by The Ferrars Academy. Some of the money was also put aside to buy seeds for the children to grow and sell which were sold at our Summer Fete.

                  

The Big Recycling Hunt

Our Eco Warriors entered The Big Recycling Hunt competition.  

We’re delighted to let you know that our entry was selected as one of three runners up.  This is fantastic news

The judges were really impressed with our film, particularly the effort made by everyone to learn their lines and the important messaging which you conveyed! 

As recognition for being a runner up in the competition up our Eco Warriors have won our school a one-year National Geographic for Kids magazine subscription and a pack of eco-themed books.  Well done to you all, we are proud of your efforts. 

Please see the film the children made about recycling and entered into the competition. 

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Fundraising

Our ECO Warriors will be growing plants and flowers from seeds when the weather is warmer ready to sell during the summer term.

ECO COMMITTEE

The Eco-Committee is the action team and the driving force behind the Eco-Schools work. The ECO committee will meet once every half term to:

• Ensure that the whole school is aware of the Eco-Schools programme
• Take the lead in carrying out the Environmental Review
• Ensure that everyone in the school community is represented in the decision-making process (as far as possible)
• Provide a link between pupils, teachers, senior management team, governors and the whole school community
• Take the lead in delivering the Eco-Schools Action Plan

We are lucky enough to have Mrs Rachel Lewis as our parent representative on our committee and Miss Green as our SLT committee member. The Eco Warriors will be meeting once a term with Miss Green and Mrs Lewis to discuss ways in which we can improve and continue to keep ourselves as an Eco Friendly school.