Our Eco Committee have worked tirelessly to achieve the Eco Schools Green Flag with Mrs Taylor-Gibbs.    St Nicholas is an Eco-School! We work hard to maintain our status was holders of a green flag. Eco-Schools is an international award programme that helps make sustainability an integral part of our everyday school life. Our Eco team is an enthusiastic group of pupils from throughout the school. Our mission is to keep our school as green as possible. We want to be sustainable and encourage not only the pupils, but other members of our community to look after the world around us. It is important that we work as a team to teach good habits and understanding within school so that the message can be taken home and into the wider community. 

We meet every regularly to talk about our challenges and how we can solve them. 

Our Eco Code

Our committee met together to review our schools eco code. We had loads of ideas, and we worked as a team to put it all together. Here is our new code

Eco school  

Always will.......... 

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 

Take care of nature, and........ 

Help make a healthy planet. 

Our latest project.........

SUMMER

Summer has only just started and we are already busy bees!

We have investigated plants and flowers which would encourage as much wildlife as possible into our new peace garden. The new flower beds are being filled, and we hope to have them planted up with our new plants ASAP. 

We have identified three fruit trees which are not happy in the pots we put them in during the move to our new building. We want them to thrive, so we will be moving them to their new homes this term too!

We are preparing to start selling our crisp packet craft after half term. 

 

SPRING

In the Spring term, we decided to keep working on our local community. Each half term we went out into the village and collected litter. We collected 6 bags, most of which came from the church yard. We have written to Father Martyn to ask what he can do to help reduce the litter in the church yard. 

We have set up scrap paper drawers in each class, and we are monitoring paper use to make sure we waste as little as possible. 

Our school uniform swap shop is now open for business! We have grouped the uniform into sizes and it has been available on parent engagement days. We hope to be able to open it more often when the weather improves in the Summer. 

Unfortunately there has been so much damage caused to our wildlife are at the top of the field, it is not safe for us to use. We have decided to focus on making the area directly around the school a more wildlife friendly space. 

We have also been busy collecting crisp packets for our latest recycling venture as entrepreneurs.......Watch this space!

 

 AUTUMN

In the Autumn term, we decided to focus on helping our school families to reduce, reuse and recycle. We set up a fancy dress costume swap shop. Children were asked to bring in their old/ unwanted fancy dress costumes. We set up the swap shop and invited school pupils to either swap or buy a new costume. We swapped 45 fancy dress costumes​, and we recycled 28 costumes (We made £14)​.  That's a total of 73 fancy dress costumes that have found lovely new homes instead of going into landfill. We still have lots of costumes to swap in the spring term. ​

We also continued with our yearly Christmas jumper swap shop. This year we managed to recycle 25 jumpers. 

​We have been busy collecting school uniforms for our latest addition......The St Nicholas Uniform Swap Shop! Our uniform swap shop will be open during parent engagement days this Spring. Parents will be invited to swap/ buy uniforms in the same way as our costume swap shop. £1 for a new jumper can't be bad! Helping school make money and saving clothes from going to landfill. It's a win-win situation!

We have been out in St Nicholas community doing our best to pick up the litter around the village. We did two litter picks in the Autumn term, collecting 8 bags of litter in total. 

We need to improve the biodiversity around our new school. A lot of our plants & trees were uprooted during the move to our new building last year. So, last summer term, we planted 5 fruit trees.  Unfortunately, this year we only managed to grow 1 apple. But our trees are looking healthy, and we are excited about how much fruit we can grow this year!

This Autumn term we have introduced a new hedgehog house and feeding station and our fabulous new bug house to the lovely new reflection garden​. We plan to plant lots of bug & bird friendly plants in the new raised beds in the spring/ summer term.

 

 

 

 

 

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