Eco-School Letter to Parents 2023-2024

Eco School Green Flag

Our Eco Committee are celebrating successfully gaining an international accreditation of the Eco Schools Green Flag with the additional recognition of a merit.  

Eco schools is a charity passionate about engaging young people in environmental education and action. They empower and motivate pupils to drive change and improve environmental awareness in their school, local community and beyond.  Eco-Schools was founded in 1994, operates in 70 countries and engages 19.5 million young people globally. This makes Eco-Schools the largest educational programme on the planet. 

Our Committee

Each year our school elect an eco-committee from the candidates who put themselves forward for this responsibility.  The children offer ideas what they would like to improve at our school and why they are interested in joining the eco-committee.  Once they are elected the eco committee have their photo on display on our eco committee information board and together complete an environmental review and look at ten different environmental areas.  We then choose which areas we would like to focus on and come up with ideas how we can improve our rating at Wootton Bassett Infant’s School and put all of this information onto our action plan.

Over the last few years, the children on the eco committee have chosen to focus on and improve awareness on; waste, school grounds, energy, marine, litter and biodiversity at Wootton Bassett Infants' School.  Each year our children have a whole school eco day based on one of our Action plan’s topic and based around a text.  

Eco Activities

Over the last few years the children have enjoyed; litter picking around the school grounds, learning about local wildlife and having a visit from Oak and Farrows RSPCA, making bird feeders, planting trees, learning about bees and welcoming the Wiltshire Bee Keeping Association to the school, sorting recycling, creating a wildflower meadow area, making posters, visiting the new nature trail at Jubilee Lake, learning about current environmental issues in the news and also completing a canal litter pick in the local environment.

Eco-Days

We had a whole school eco day focussing on waste.  The children were put into mixed age groups and experienced 3 different lessons. One lesson was based on waste in the ocean and the children helped to make a large-scale art mural from plastic bottle tops. Another lesson was based on compost and what can and cannot be composted. 

We made our own rot pots! Our third workshop was all about recycling.  The children sorted out household items and also thought about how long items take to decompose.

The day ended with a showcase assembly where the whole school shared the recycling song they had learnt.

Bio-Diversity Day - June 2022

During Bio-Diversity Day we focussed our learning all about bees. We made seed bombs ready to throw on our wild meadow area. We had a visit from Wiltshire bee Keeping Association, they talked to us about bees and showed us the equipment they used when looking after bees

Blue Heart Campaign

We are creating a wild meadow area on the bank next to the key stage 1 classrooms.  Not only will this encourage and help biodiversity in our school grounds, but we will then be able to use it in science lessons when studying minibeasts.

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