Eco Team

At the beginning of each year the individual classes vote in their eco reps. Each class in Years 1-6 has one representative on the Eco Team.

Their role varies from promoting a healthier environment and ensuring the school is aware of recycling procedures to litter picking in school and the local community.

Eco School Green Flag Award
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the Eco School Green Flag Award.

Eco-Schools is a seven step framework that thousands of schools around the world use to introduce, manage and complete environmental actions in their organisation and local community. We aim to place young people at the heart of these environmental actions. This approach engages, motivates and empowers children to care for our planet now and throughout their lifetimes.

Thank you to Mrs Jones, our Eco Team and all students and parents who have contributed to this incredible achievement. Eco Schools summarised their report with the following:

Your Greatest Overall Success:
Green Flag 2026 Oswald Road Primary School Award Level:  Green Flag Focus Topics
We were delighted to read that this year’s projects empowered your pupils to take ownership and responsibility for leading in making positive changes to their school environment. It was fantastic to see that you included regular evaluation of the progress of your recycling and litter-picking schemes throughout the year so that pupils could see the real impact that their work has had on their school community. It was wonderful to hear about their leadership in their own projects and that their confidence, pride and commitment to protecting their environment had increased.

Please click here to read the full report.

When a school has worked through each of the Seven Steps, they can then apply for Eco-Schools Green Flag accreditation. The Eco-Schools Green Flag is international and recognised by organisations such as UNESCO. It is a symbol of a school’s commitment to environmental education.

We have completed our environmental review and with the help of our eco team, have selected three topics for us to focus on.  These are waste, litter and healthy living.

Recent Eco Activity:

Gardening Club:

Our Year 6 Eco Team members have formed a ‘Gardening Club’ and have been working in partnership with the Botany Bay project to develop the Owl Garden. We held an event in November 2022 to celebrate the official opening and the work that the children and staff have done. Photos and information about this event to follow!

Community Litter Pick:

Our eco team members came up with a fantastic idea to do a litter pick in the local community. Working towards our Green Flag Award, the children did a great job during their walk to and from Longford Park this week.

Planting:

The Eco Team has helped the PTA plant more eco-friendly plants in the playground.

Recycling Heroes:

Some of our Year 5 and 6 children recently gave a presentation on why we need recycling bins in the playground.  We discussed coming up with superhero characters to represent the different bins.  This is an exciting project and we’ll be working with a local designer to create some superhero characters for each bin.

Weekly Litter Picking:

This happens weekly across all year groups from EYFS through to Year 6.  Each key stage have their own set of litter pickers which they take out with them during playtimes to keep the playground clean and tidy.