Eco Council
At Ravensthorpe CE (VC) Junior School, we believe in improving our environment and working towards being a greener, more sustainable school. We have created our Eco Council which will work towards combating the ongoing environmental issues surrounding our local area and even the world we live in!
As a council, we hold regular meetings throughout the year to discuss environmental issues within school and the community. We also look at global issues (and the positive impact we can have).
We believe that our pupils should have a voice, moving the school forward to become more 'green'. The council has a heavy involvement in organising school fundraising events to help benefit everyone.
The Eco Council is made up of one representative from each class who will pledge to move us towards improving our environment. These children are then responsible for completing an environmental review from which we continue our journey as Eco Leaders.
Our Long-Term Plan for this year...
- As part of our efforts in reducing littering, we have organised a litter workshop with Kirklees Council.
- Together, we have worked with Ravensthorpe in Bloom to help with planting at the Greenwood Centre and within the local area.
- We have created posters around school to ask for seed and flower donations so we could plant at the front of our school.
- As part of our efforts in reducing our school’s CO2 emissions, our Eco Councillors made notices encouraging everyone to do their bit around the school.
- As part of our efforts in reducing energy costs, we created an energy newsletter that we placed in each classroom and put on our website to inform parents at home about how to reduce energy.
- As part of our efforts in encouraging recycling, we invited Kirklees Council into school and organised a whole school workshop on the three Rs of waste management.
- At school, we have organised a Pre-Loved non-uniform day to encourage everyone to reduce, reuse and recycle. On this day, children wore their sibling’s clothing, charity shop purchases or even their favourite pre-worn fancy dress outfits.
