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.

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.

Here are a few things our amazing Eco Team has done recently that helped us to achieve this award…

• Our eco reps wrote to the local MP asking him to come into school for a live Q&A. He visited school and attended an assembly while eco reps asked him questions about the environment and his plans and commitment to the local community

• Year 3 and Year 4 eco reps went on a school trip to the local recycling centre. We visited the MRF (materials recovery facility) to see how all the household recycling in Manchester is separated and sent for recovery

• We run an annual whole community litter pick in collaboration with Keep Manchester Tidy. They set up in the car park with all the equipment, and as children are collected, they can borrow litter pickers etc and go out into Chorlton with their grown up. Returned litter and equipment is then taken away by Biffa. Lots of families have got involved on each of the years we’ve done this so far, and next year we’re going to expand this to twice per year due it’s great success.

• Litter picking rota on the playground – after concerns the eco team had around litter on the playground, we decided to make a litter picking rota during playtimes. The reps have found that this has made a positive impact. This is especially because of them delivering the message in assemblies, and posters around school.

• Year 5 and 6 eco reps are in charge of paper recycling in all classrooms. On Fridays, the reps work with caretaker Ryan to ensure all the recycling that has been collected by classes and teachers is disposed of properly in the correct bins, to avoid contamination. Clear posters have been placed on the classroom recycling bins and as a result our paper recycling has become more thorough and successful.

• Eco reps worked with the school cook to create a seasonal menu.

• Eco reps went over to the Field of Os with Mrs Carter, Caretaker Ryan and Business Manager Craig to plant new trees in preparation for the building work that is due to take place. 

• Eco reps have been working very hard over the last few months creating ideas, writing and rehearsing an eco play to be performed in both KS1 and KS2 assemblies. The message of recycling and good environmental habits will be shared with all children in KS1 and KS2. Their hard work on contributing towards the green flag application will be celebrated. 

• During the PTA’s big dig event where they added plants to the playground, there was an ‘eco’ table using junk modelling out of recycled materials. 

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.