Eco Council
ECO LEADERS
The Eco Leaders’ will be supporting Miss Haigh with helping the school help the environment. They will meet regularly (every fortnight) to discuss and plan how to improve our school environment and that of the wider world. This year they hope to achieve their Eco Schools Silver Award and raise money for charity through various events which will support the local environment and sustaining our planet.
Here is some more information on what the Eco Leaders’ have been up to on their quest to make St. Mary’s an Eco School!
Oct 2022 – Litter Picking with HUBBA
Just before half term, our Eco Warrior Leaders had the pleasure of accompanying Clive and Adrian from HUBBA on a litter picking outing around Mortimer. During this activity the children discussed ideas to make our schools more eco friendly whilst cleaning up the village. The children thoroughly enjoyed meeting Clive and Adrian and have suggested some fantastic ideas to make our schools even more environmentally friendly.
Sept 2021 – Loose Change Weigh In
This September, both schools held a loose change weigh in to raise as much money possible to help Mortimer St. Mary’s fundraise for their food waste composter. The class that bought in the most loose change received extra play time at the end of the week. Thank you so much to all parents, carers and families that contributed towards this, we are very pleased to say that we have now reached our target and hope to install our food waste composter before Christmas!
Sept 2021
Mortimer St Mary’s would like to introduce the Eco Leaders’ for the academic year Sept 2021 – July 2022.
Year 6 Gemini Class – Savannah N Orion Class- Melanie
Year 5 Mars Class – Albert Neptune Class – Freddie
Year 4 Mercury – Noah W Venus Class – Holly R
Year 3 Saturn Class – Jessica Jupiter Class – Jenson B
Well done to all the children who put so much effort into their applications and interviews.
ECO WEEK 2021
This summer, the children in each class made personal pledges and class pledges to uphold for 2 weeks. The children did this so successfully that each class applied for Green Blue Peter badges and received these in September 2021. The children are very proud of their badges, but more importantly are very proud of how they stuck to their pledges in an effort to help our environment.
April 2021
We have exciting news to share….
Through a Diocesan Project focusing on developing green schools and sustainability we have been twinned with a school in India – Nandyal CSI Primary School.
November 2020
The Eco Council have met twice this half term with Miss Sims. They’ve spent time considering our 3 main priorities; waste, biodiversity and energy. The Councillors have then led discussions with their classes on what more we can do at MSM to reduce and improve in these areas so we achieve our Silver Award for ECO Schools. They’ve gathered lots of great ideas which you’ll be hearing about soon!
The ECO Council have also agreed with classes to launch the MSM Paper Weigh In Competition which we sadly were unable to complete last year. This has the aim to reduce the amount of paper we waste unnecessarily. Over coming weeks they will be busy preparing for their launch video which they’ll share on this website and with the school early next term.
October 2020
Children from Year 3 up to Year 6 were invited to complete an application form if they wanted to become an Eco Councillor. There were some incredibly amazing application forms which showcased how passionate our pupils are about all things ECO! Miss Sims was blown away by the things children were doing in the local community with their families to make our environment a much better place to live in.
After reading through so many high quality application forms we are delighted to advise that the following children have been selected to be our Eco Councillors for this half of the year:
Emily D, J R, Evie G, Clara M, Annabel B, Izzy L, Caylon C and Jack H
The first ECO Council Meeting will be on Wednesday 7th October with Miss Sims.
