School Council

Eco Schools Programme

The school Eco Warriors are a small group of children who are passionate about the environment. Like School council, we meet to discuss arising issues and what we can do as a school to help.

How are Eco Warriors elected?

Each class has two Eco Warrior representatives, who are chosen by a democratic secret ballot by members of their class. If someone is interested in being an Eco Warrior, they can put their name forward and give a speech on why they would be suitable for the role. Once the two members are selected, each warrior is given a badge to wear on their uniform.

What happens in the meetings?

We meet fortnightly during assembly times to discuss any issues and to plan future events. The Eco Warriors think of ideas we could use in school and we then talk about how these can be implemented. We discuss how we can raise awareness so other children in the school are mindful of the environment too. Some meetings are also held outside, where we are either tidying a wildlife area or being creative in other ways.

Our exciting events so far…

With the support from some sixth form students from Sutton High, we created our wonderful ‘turtle and jellies’. These were huge artwork pieces made on the fence of the cage, made entirely out of plastic bags! We created these by first marking out the outlines with masking tape and then carefully weaving stipes of plastic bags between the railings. We were extremely proud of the result and we hope others were inspired to recycle their plastic bags by using them in creative ways. Our hope was to raise awareness about the amount of plastic washing up in our oceans and how we need to reduce the amount of plastics we use!

We have introduced some more items that can now be recycled in school and are making sure everyone is disposing of these items in the correct way. We now recycle paper, batteries, crisps packets and every type of pen.

Another exciting event was the planting of two new trees in our playground! One of our Eco Warriors, Eloise, and her family were very generous in donating two trees they had received from the Woodlands Trust. We believe that they are a cherry tree and rowan tree. With the help from Mrs Bakker, Eloise planted these trees in carefully chosen locations and we have enjoyed watching them grow.

Recently we have teamed up with the School Council to discuss and plan our ‘Robin Hood goes Green’ day. This will be a whole day dedicated to raise awareness of being environmentally friendly and donating our mufti money to local Eco charities in Sutton. We are planning lots of exciting activities through the day including making bird feeders, recycled art, planting seeds and exploring our nature garden. We also hope our friends from the local care home will be able to help us with these activities.