Robyn, holding the red shirt, at the Player Layer Eco Team meeting A Year 13 student at Ratcliffe College has won the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust ‘Grand Ideas’ competition. Robyn Warwick won £1,000 which will be used to implement her idea within the school. Robyn’s aim is “to crack down on single use plastics and create a culture where recycling is an everyday part of...
Environment
Royal Hospital School has announced that it will be planting a tree for every new pupil joining the school for the next seven years. Launching at its Open Day this weekend, the tree planting is part of its new Grow with Us campaign, which also includes a range of initiatives aimed at sustainability and promoting well-being. Scientists have stated that if 1 trillion trees are planted in the next few...
A teacher at King’s Ely Junior has become one of the UK's first United Nations accredited ‘Climate Change Teachers’. Alan Parkinson, the head of geography at the school, can now deliver up to date climate change lessons to all of his pupils. He will get to share best practice with all teaching staff, so that they too can take part in the UN Climate Change Teacher Academy, an innovative new...
Edge Grove has further demonstrated its high level of commitment to recycling waste in the local community, having recently been awarded the status of an official local recycling centre for Radlett and the surrounding areas. The School has always recycled plastic, metal, cardboard and paper through the Hertsmere waste services route, but more recently it began looking for ways to recycle ‘harder to...
A group of Eco Club pupils from Taunton Preparatory School have built several beehives, and are successfully now harvesting honey. After working on a project around 'sustainable locally grown food’, the Year 7 and 8 pupils decided they would like to build their own beehives to help the environment and produce honey. They set about creating a 'beekeeping club' as part of their existing Eco Club,...
Taunton School has been recognised for its environmental achievement with a Green Award in the Independent Schools of the Year Awards. The Green Award for Environmental Achievement recognises the innovative ways in which the School is striving to reduce its carbon footprint, whilst demonstrating a positive student experience. It was awarded following on from the success of ‘Zero to Landfill’...