St Paul’s First School – Eco- Committee

Our Eco- Committee was set up in December 2005 to help us find ways of helping our environment and looking after the world (click here for Eco–Schools website).

There are 11 member of the Eco- Committee. They are made up as follows;

• Two teachers
• Two members of the non-teaching Staff
• A Parent Governor
• A pupil representative from each class who has been elected by their classmates

The Eco-Committee meets on a regular basis.

If you would like to know how the Eco-Committee works, please click here.

The first task that we needed to do as a Committee was to fill in an Environmental Review of the school.

This was to see what we wee doing well and to see where we could do more. Each pupil representative chose an area to look at with the support of an adult member of the Committee.

If you would like to see the survey, please click here.

We then met again to talk about what we had found out. At our next meeting we will write our Action Plan.

In the meantime we have already started putting up signs to remind everyone in school of simple things they can do to help the environment. We also have an Eco-Committee noticeboard.

What is our Eco-Committee going to do?

Step 1 Register on-line as an Eco-School

Step 2 Form an Action team and hold the first meeting of the Eco-Committee.

Step 3 Carry out an Environmental Review of the school. This is to find out what we are already doing to look after the environment and to see if there are any areas where we could do more or do things differently.

Step 4 The Eco- Committee meets again to talk about what they have found out by doing the Environmental Review.

Step 5 The Eco-Committee meet again to talk about things that they are going to include in their Action Plan and to write the Action Plan.
Our Action Plan will tell the rest of the school which areas we are going to improve and how we are going to do it. We will share this with the rest of the school in a special assembly. The whole school can then work together to achieve the things on our Action Plan.

Step 6 The Eco-Committee will write an Eco-Code to remind everyone of what the school is trying to do to look after the environment.

Step 7 Once we have written our Action Plan and Eco-Code, the Committee will meet once every half term to see how things are coming along and to discuss any other ideas that we might have.

Step 8 Once we have written our Action Plan and Eco-Code and we have made some progress towards achieving the things on it, we can apply for the Eco-Schools Bronze Award and start working to get our Silver award!

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