Eco Schools

Overview of the Eco Schools Programme

Eco-Schools is a global programme engaging 19.5 million children across 67 countries, making it the largest educational programme on the planet.

For over 25 years, Eco-Schools has been empowering children to drive change and improve their environmental awareness through the simple Seven-Step framework in order to achieve the international Eco-Schools Green Flag.

Eco-Schools develops pupils’ skills, raises environmental awareness, improves the school environment and creates financial savings for schools as well as a whole host of other benefits.

Pheasey Park Farm Primary School and Early Years Centre achieved the Eco Schools Green Flag in 2017. Since then, we have successfully renewed our Green Flag three times, as renewal of the award used to be compulsory every two years but is now annually.

The most recent Green Flag renewal was successful in June 2024 where we received the award with a Merit and received the following detailed feedback:

It is evident that young people in your school are aware of environmental issues and passionate about protecting our planet. Thank you for uploading such wonderful meeting minutes, they were neat, professional, and we loved reading them!

Completing the Environmental Review allowed your Eco-Committee to recognise the positive changes that your school has already made and gain an appreciation of the future impacts that they can create. We took great pleasure in reading the insightful comments on your Environmental Review, they provided a wonderful insight into the discussions that took place whilst your Eco-Committee completed it.

Your chosen projects in your Action Plan were based on children’s ideas and the areas they are most passionate about. This approach places them at the heart of your Eco-Schools work and will lead to increased engagement. We enjoyed reading about how you put QR codes on plants for your school community to learn about biodiversity, what a great idea! These projects developed for your topics are a great variety of activities that will make an immediate difference, whilst changing behaviours to create further impacts. The three curriculum examples provided are great examples of environmental education, they are practical and fun with a real-life context that is very relevant to pupils in your school. The curriculum examples provided impressively expand on the projects in your Action Plan, providing pupils with a deeper understanding of the eco-activities they are delivering.

We enjoyed seeing your uploaded examples of your microhabitat work, it clearly demonstrates that staff members in your school are willing to go above and beyond to include these important issues in pupil’s learning. Pass on a thank you to them from the Eco-Schools’ Team.

Your Eco-Committee have used a wide variety of methods to inform their school community about their work, this shows they take pride in their achievements and are working hard to involve and educate all around them. Your uploaded Eco-Board helped to bring your Eco-Schools application to life – it’s a real celebration of your eco-activity that will increase engagement from your school community.

Your greatest success is a brilliant achievement. Increasing engagement, confidence and awareness within your school community especially with your whole-school Eco-Day is a huge success! It’s clearly something that pupils will be proud of and leaves a great legacy to build upon! We love your collaborative approach to creating an Eco-Code, this approach has allowed young people to take ownership and create a final code that will be treasured by everyone at your school! Well done for planning more formal actions like writing to your MP, this shows that your Eco-Committee are thoughtful and know there are many ways to create change. Thank you so much for submitting such a terrific application. We have loved reading about your journey and are incredibly impressed by all you have achieved.

We have no hesitation in awarding you an Eco-Schools Green Flag with Merit, congratulations!

To find out more information about the Eco Schools programme, you can visit their website here

Home - Eco Schools (eco-schools.org.uk)

Eco Warriors

Nelly - Year 1

Teddy - Year 1

Georgia - Year 2

Sienna - Year 2

Lottie - Year 3

Heidi - Year 3

Daisy - Year 4

Hayden - Year 4

Penelope - Year 5

Lily- Rose - Year 5

Bobby - Year 6

Miller - Year 6

Elected Roles

Eco Warriors have the opportunity to nominate themselves for the role of Chair, Vice Chair or Secretary of the Eco Committee.

Eco Code

The Eco Code is our school environmental mission statement which reflects the topics that our Eco action plan is based on and demonstrates our school's commitment to being sustainable.

Every year, pupils throughout the school are set the challenge to create an updated Eco Code that reflects our school Eco actions, which they are informed about through key stage assemblies and the Eco display board. The Eco Committee then engage in discussion about all the entries and vote on which they believe to be the most relevant, effective Eco Code. The chosen Eco Code is displayed in prominent places around the school including classrooms, main reception, staff room, corridors and offices.