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The Eco-Schools international
programme provides a simple framework to enable our school
to become more
environmentally aware.
St John’s has been an Eco-school for over three years and was awarded the
Bronze Award
in 2004 and the Silver Award in 2006.
Green Flag Targets and Action 2007
Target 1: School Grounds
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Improve outside learning opportunities
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Develop own vegetable garden
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Encourage different types of wildlife
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Create own compost and reuse rain water
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Target 2: Healthy Living
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Increase physical activity
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Provide clean drinking water at all times
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Enhance the school eating environment
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Promote healthy eating
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Target 3: Waste Minimisation
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Increase recycling
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Increased composting
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Target 4: Transport
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Promote walking/cycling to school
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Install cycle storage
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We have been working hard to achieve our targets and each class has had
a special job to do. In our class work work we have all been learning
about the environment. Here are some photographs of our eco-school
work.
Tidying up and planting to improve the outside environment
 
Developing different habitats
  
  
Wild Area
 
Integrating environment issues into the curriculum
  
  
Provision for more eco-friendly methods of transport
 
Read full details of our Eco-schools Green Flag action plan here.
Silver Award Targets and Action 2006
Transport
To encourage more children to walk or cycle to school.
School Grounds
To develop the school grounds as an environmental
learning resource.
Energy
To
conserve energy in school.
For
more information see the Eco-school development
plan. Eco-school club meet once a week
to action the targets on the plan. They regularly review
how well the school is doing.
Eco-club
and classes at St John’s have been very busy this term achieving the Eco-school targets.
Energy Action
Eco-club
have been encouraging people to turn off lights in school this term. They
have identified
with yellow spots the lights to be turned on first in each
class.
They
have put posters around the school to remind people to save energy. Each
class has two
energy monitors.
Transport
Action
In
May St John’s held a ‘Walk to School’ week. The whole school and parents were
encouraged to
leave their cars at home and walk or cycle to school. Classes
recorded how people came to school
each day. All classes learnt about the
benefits of walking to school.
We held a poster competition – these were the winning
entries.
Visit
the Walk to School website here
Cycle
training has been held in Year 6, and Year 5 took part in the Carterton
‘Go-Ride’ competition.
School
Grounds Action
Eco-club
have been busy designing and planting a vegetable garden this term. They
have planted
pots around the school and kept them watered. Over the next few
weeks they are planning a bog
garden, log pile and compost area.
Foundation
Stage have been busy designing their gardens with the help of parents.
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