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Mellor Community Primary School

Eco Council 

Meet the Team

The Eco Council are a team of 12, Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 pupils who are interested in sustainability and the environment. We work together throughout the year on projects which cover the 7 principles of eco schools, to try and become a more environmentally friendly and sustainable school, as well as work towards maintaining our Green Flag status. We facilitate and engage in projects both as an Eco Council and those which involve other pupil voice groups and the whole school community for maximum impact.

The Eco Council meets regularly to engage in projects and share ideas about tasks which have been set on our DB Primary page.

In order to become an Eco Councilor, we have to create a presentation which we share with our classes as to why we think we should be selected for the Eco Council and what skills and qualities we can bring to the role. The class then votes for and elects for the most suitable candidate.

Eco Council 26-26 (ID 2338)

This year’s Eco Council is made up of 12 of us from Year 3 to Year 6.  We are: Darshini, Ateeb, Shiny, Zaid, Aarya, Divyansh, Aarav, Misha, Hikmah, Arjun, Amaan, Rukaiya.

What we have been up to…

Eco Roadshow at Rushey Mead - we took part in 3 different workshops. They were; Twycross Zoo – about biodiversity, if one species gets extinct then others depending on it will also die, Let’s Go Zero – we got to use lego bricks to represent the waste that school create in a year, Living Streets: Let’s get travelling Actively – we looked at barriers and reasons why some children may not be able to walk to school, and possible solutions and ways that they can make part of their journey active.

                                          

Walk to school badges - we have all taken part in the Walk to School Badge competition. This is where we get to create a badge design for next year’s badges. The theme this year is: ‘Walk the Senses’. Here are some of our designs…

              

Environmental review – we have conducted our environmental review for this year’s Green Flag renewal. We are just finalising our 3 areas of development.

Packed lunch audit – we have decided that we want to do some work around packed lunches that pupils bring to school to try and improve the health of them and the amount of packaging that is in packed lunches. We have designed our audit sheet, but we need Lisa to speak to Nik about whether we have permission to do this in our classes, and if we need to tell parents.

Next steps – finalise environmental review, talk to Nik about packed lunch audit. 

2024/25

 This year’s Eco Council is made up of 12 of us from Year 3 to Year 6. We are: Zaid, Aarya, Divyansh, Arpita, Misha, Aarav, Amaan, Alayna, Arjun, Navya, Het, Manel. This is what have we have been up to so far this year:

  1. Eco Roadshow at Rushey Mead – we took part in 3 different workshops. They were Sustrans– we had to think and draw different ways of traveling to school, this could be as imaginative as we wanted, Nature Park – nature in grey spaces, looking at how to make these better, Twycross Zoo – hedgehogs, about biodiversity, if one species gets extinct then others depending on it will also die. We took the idea to make hedgehog houses and Lisa did this with Year 2, as part of their work on habitats, and Beccy with Year 3 in Forest Schools,

          

  • We completed the Environmental Review for Green Flag – the areas that have come up for development this year are: litter, Biodiversity and Global Citizenship.
  • Walk to School Badge Design Competition – we have been set a task to create a design for next years’ walk to school badges with the theme of ‘Walk with Joy’. Here are some of our designs:

      

Next Steps: As part of our Eco schools work and the Green Flag renewal, we are hoping to do the following things:

Litter – carry out a litter pick and audit on the outside perimeter fence of school (to the front, Checketts Road), write to our local MP Shivani Raja to ask about having a litter bin placed near to school, as there isn’t one within 10m in either direction, create posters to make the community more aware of the dangers of litter on the environment.

Biodiversity – take part in the ‘Spring is Sprung’ event being organised as part of the WWF Action for Nature School Grant with Kate Bull, Beccy and Lisa - to make bird boxes, feeders and bird nest buffets. To create posters also for this and to invite our families to the event.

Green Flag Award Renewal – Finalise and submit between May and July.

Summer Term 23/24

Meal Barrow Competition

This half term we have worked in collaboration with Beccy and the Forest schools Champions on the Meal Barrow growing competition.  We discussed the items that we could grow in the ‘meal barrow’. We were then ALL set the challenge by Lisa to design a 3-course menu which included those items we are growing, but which is also healthy, nutritional and in line with the ‘eat well’ plate. We then met back together and looked at the designs and decided at as team which design we should enter into the competition. We decided that there were elements of two menus we liked, so we decided to combine them.  

Get Loud on Litter

We have continued our work on our litter project. Lisa has set us the task of designing some posters to display at the front of the school to inform the community about the environmental impact of litter.

Spring Term 23/24

This half term we completed our environmental review and have decided to look at these areas: Global Citizenships, Littering and Healthy Living, as these are the areas in which we scored the least.

We have started to gather ideas of what we can do:

  • For healthy living we want children to have healthy packed lunches, and to create a leaflet for parents which can go on the school newsletter.
  • For global citizenship we are thinking about working together with the school council to come up with an idea to raise money for charity that helps global citizens. An idea we had was to have children wear green and blue clothes and bring £1 and then donate this to charity.
  • For littering we are trying to get everyone to throw their rubbish in the bin because sometimes it flies away. We thought that we could have some litter monitors at lunchtime, especially when the weather gets warmer and we are eating outside.

Autumn Term 23/24

We are the 2023/24 Eco Reps for Mellor. Some of us are the same as last year.

Year 6 – Roxen, Amirah,

Year 5 – Navya, Manel, Het

Year 4 – Sachi, Shubham, Amaan

This is what we have been up to:

  • Old eco reps chatted to the new recruits about what we do as a group, and what we worked on last year.
  • Lisa told us we got the Green Flag Award last year, which are all super pleased about.
  • Lisa took our pictures for the eco board.
  • We have started to complete the Environmental Review to see what areas we want to work on this year for the Green Flag renewal.

Projects

Projects 25/26

Projects 24/25

Projects 23/24

We have conducted an environmental review in preparation for renewing our Green Flag Award.

Our Action Plan for our Green Flag renewal based on the scores we achieved when completing the environmental review.

Projects 22-23

Whale Project

Green Flag Award

Projects 21-22

Our 3 main areas for action for this year, in order to maintain our Green Flag status:

  • 1. Energy
  • 2. Waste
  • 3. Litter

Energy

We have been working really hard to help to reduce the amount of energy we use in schools. Each class has now recruited an energy monitor for their classrooms to take responsibility for turning off equipment when not in use, and when the room is not occupied. In addition, each room/office within the school has these stickers placed on all equipment that needs to be turned off.

In a bid to reduce our use of energy even more, we are in the process of producing ‘reminder’ posters for each classroom to be displayed at the exit of the room, as a further reminder to turn off electronics when leaving the room, and being left unoccupied.

Waste & Litter

We have recently installed a special ‘packet’ recycling bin in our school hall, so that pupils who have packed lunches can put their packaging in there to be recycled – even the packets that say ‘do not recycle’.

 

We have a litter pick planned before the Easter holidays – watch this space to see how we got on…

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