THE EVELINE DAY SCHOOL

Eco Club

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Our Eco Club is supported by the Year 6 prefects. It holds weekly meetings attended by representatives from Upper Reception to Year 6. Children do activities, watch videos and learn about regional and national Eco-Campaigns. 

 

• Plastic pollution and cleaning our oceans

• Keeping rivers clean

• Using ‘ECOSIA’ as a search engine to help world tree planting

• Fair Trade Fortnight and Rain Forest Alliance

• David Attenborough Film

 

As well as Eco-Club activities, whole school eco initiatives are promoted through assemblies and Votes for Schools. Examples include:

 

• Votes for Schools – Would you go vegetarian (KS1) vegan (KS2) for a month

• Votes for Schools – Could we live without single use plastic?

• Whole School:  Visit/workshop – WRWA (Western Riverside Waste Authority)

• Litter picking on the common

• Switch-off Fortnight – whole school initiative

• Listen to messages from the tree planters for “Ecosia”

• Find out more about recycling at school; ‘heart’ pledges for the school and write a letter to people in charge collecting waste at school.

• Responsible Consumerism – Young Money Challenge – UR to Year 6 (Lessons and activities and then children make posters on a choice of ‘Saving Energy, Reducing food waste or upcycling clothes’