ECO-SCHOOL

The Eco-Committee is the student-led action group and the driving force behind the Eco-Schools process e whole school. 

• Who is in the team: Students/Teachers/Non-Teaching Staff/Parents
• The Eco Committee meets regularly to plan, monitor and evaluate the activation from the Action Plan.

Carrying out an Environmental Audit helps the school identify its current strengths and weaknesses in sustainability. The data for the audit was collected by primary eco club, CAS students in secondary and the eco-committee.

• The result of the Environmental Audit helps us to choose a focus theme and a target and activities to achieve it. This is reviewed every two years.

The Action Plan is developed based on the results of our Environmental Audit. We have identified the areas we want to focus on, a SMART target and then discussed the activities that should help us to achieve the target.

We monitor our progress in achieving our target regularly and we inform the school community about the progress. Evaluating the success of our activities helps us make changes required in our Action Plan.

We are aware that linking Eco-Schools activities to the curriculum ensures targeting the whole school community. We are working with teachers across the school to link the curriculum to real-life settings outside classroom ideally in the real environment. We are working on increasing outdoor teaching and learning.

Knowledge should be followed by action. We are using creative ways of getting everyone from the school community on board! Our hope is to increase our impact within a local community too.

The Eco-Code summarises what the school’s commitment to sustainability is.