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    • Eco Council

    Our mission is: To help the world because we want everyone and everything to be able to live in an environment which is healthy.

    Spring 2025

    Calculating our carbon footprint 

    Eco Code

    Autumn 2024 

    Environmental Review 2024-25: The eco councillors have completed an environmental review of the school and grounds

    Eco Council introduced the school to our climate change project in assembly. They used a blanket, a model Earth and sun to explain global warming. They suggested some tips for what we can do in school to reduce our carbon footprint.

    Welcome to our new Eco Councillors for 2024-25!

    Why did you want to be part of Eco Council?

    • “I like helping the environment”
    • “I care about wildlife and nature.”
    • “I want to help animals and make sure they are safe.”
    • “I want to help the world last longer.”
    • “I want to make sure wildlife and animals are safe.”
    • “I wanted to see what it was like at Eco Council, I have never been on a Council before!”
    • “I want to look after the world.”
    • “I want to plant more plants.”
    • “I want to do litter picking around Thetford.”

    Summer 2024

    This term, Eco Council joined forces with SNAC to start a food waste project. Representatives worked together to discuss their views on food waste within our school and all children agreed it was too high. It was decided that the food waste should be monitored so the children could identify how improvements might be made. Both councils decided that the food waste in both halls should be weighed in order to get a better idea of exactly how much is being wasted. Children came up with a plan to weigh the food waste bags every day in each hall and record their results in a table.

    Trip to Howards Plant Nurseries - 26th June 2024

    Mia Witham visited on Thursday and ran a planting session with the Eco Council. We added plants into the rainwater planter in the red playground- the plants will be watered with runoff from the roof. They planted: elephant’s ear, periwinkle, bistort, masterwort, sneezeweed, bergamot and flag irises.

    Eco Council joined with the council to take part in the 'Great British Spring Clean' project. They completed a litter pick in Frederick's Wood and Fairfields play area. Thank you Eco Council for making a difference to the environment and helping to protect local wildlife.

    Litter picking in the school grounds

    Eco Council Assembly- Recycling

    Eco Council worked with Gardening Club to create a Norfolk Show wheelbarrow garden

    Preparing our stall for the summer festival

    Alisdair Naulls, from the Rivers Trust, led a plastic pollution workshop and a litter pick. We analysed what materials our litter is made from and how it might get into rivers and oceans. We learnt about how micro plastics are harmful to wildlife, and how we need to think about our use of plastics carefully.

    Planning a wheelbarrow garden

     

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