Eco Committee

Who We Are

We are the mighty Eco Committee and our job is to help the planet by spreading awareness of environmental issues and doing our best to lead change.

If you are interested about being an Eco Warrior for next year, or just want to find out what we do, ask any member of the Eco Committee (you’ll see us wearing a snazzy Eco Committee badge) or find our names and faces on the Eco-Board, or alternatively ask Mr Easter or Mr Carey.

What We Do

As an Eco-School, we start the year by completing an Environmental Review of the different topics: Biodiversity, Marine, Energy, Litter, Water, Healthy Living, School Grounds, Global Citizenship, Transport and Waste. You can see our Environmental Review on our Eco-Board. We then decide which topics we will want to work on. We have lots of discussion and a vote to make a choice. This year we chose Waste, Litter and Biodiversity.

 

We then split into groups to write an action plan and learn about why we monitor changes and evaluate. We decide who will complete the different tasks it takes to make a change. We learn teamwork, how to plan and how to be leaders.

 

This year, our plan has led us to change how we collect waste. We have recycling bins now for pens, oral care products, paper and batteries. We took a survey in the hall at lunch and found many children were throwing food away – we’ve greatly reduced this now by giving more pupils more choice about food quantities and limiting puddings to those who are still hungry. Single-use plastics have been eliminated from school dinners too!

 

We take part in national campaigns like the Spring Clean, when we collect litter in Churchfields Gardens, What’s Under Your Feet?, where we analysed the invertebrates living in our field, Waste Week, when we aim to monitor and reduce waste and deliver an assembly on waste and litter, and RSPB Birdwatch and the Blue Campaign. We often write a page for the school newsletter and post on social media to tell adults what we have been doing!

The Eco Committee digging

Make a Difference

  • Share ideas in weekly Eco Commitee meetings help us up to date and gives us the opportunity to feed back to our classes what we have discussed.
  • Speak in school assemblies to promote our Eco Code: reduce, reuse, recycle, refuse and repair and tell everyone about global threats.
  • Monitoring of waste, wildlife and litter (more topics next year).
  • Poster competitions – encouraging everyone in the school and the borough to recycle and use the recycling school bins.
  • Write newsletters and info for pupils and parents.
  • Litter Heroes – join litter picks and monitor littering on Friday (we only have snacks that create litter on Fridays now).

News

Members

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee because I love animals and going outside to have some fresh air. I don’t like pollution, especially the smell of it. Making our environment better is very important to me and I would like to help make that possible.

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I wanted to be in eco committee because I want to help the environment and save the world from global warming and pollution.

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee because lots of animals are being killed because of pollution, greenhouse gases and plastic.

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee because I want to help the environment so wildlife doesn’t become extinct and so we can help ourselves, too. Also, so that there is no litter going around the world.

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee because I want to save the environment and wildlife. I love animals and nature so much. I don’t want any animals to be extinct. I want to save the world from pollution. Instead of driving the car, you could walk or go on your scooter or bike.

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee because if we cut down trees there will be no oxygen. Animals are going to be extinct and there would be little to no life on Earth if humans keep cutting down trees.

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee so I can clean up all of the mess in the world and help the fish.

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee cause I want the world to be clean and the world would be a better place.

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee because I want to help the environment and animals.

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I wanted to be in the Eco-Committee because I want to save the earth from pollution and I will talk everyone to reuse plastic and to recycle.

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I won’t be in the Eco-Committee because my dad and mum say, “less trees; less oxygen.”

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I wanted to be in the Eco-Committee because I want to have a role in saving the environment and to stop global warming. I also want to help the litter pickers and make sure the world is litter free.

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee because I hate seeing people litter. Just yesterday I saw a squirrel playing with a paper bag. I also want this world to be better for future generations. I don’t want animals going extinct.

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I want it to be in the Eco-Committee  because I want to stop plastic being thrown in the ocean and for people to recycle the plastic before a living things start eating ocean plastic.

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I want it to be in the Eco-Committee because I think helping the environment makes a big difference in the world to our lives and animals lives too.

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I wanted to be in the Eco-Committee because I want to stop pollution in the sea.

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I wanted to be part of the Eco-Committee because I want to help Churchfields become litter free and encourage others to be more careful about how they treat our world.

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee because I want to change the world by picking up all the litter in our local area to make our world and South Woodford are great place for us and our families to live.

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee because I would rather have a home to live in than not have a home at all.

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I wanted to be in the Eco-Committee because I want to help the environment and save the world.

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Wanted to be in the Eco-committee because future generations should have a nice place to live in and it is up to us that they do.

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I want to be in the Eco-Committee because I want to stop littering and to help the environment.

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I wanted to be in the Eco-Committee because helping nature is what I love the most. If we can stop littering, there will be more wildlife and if we stop climate change, then water creatures can survive as well.

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I wanted to be part of the Eco-Committee because I want to save nature and the world.

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I wanted to be in the Eco-Committee because I absolutely hate seeing litter on the ground. And I want to help stop pollution. I also want to help keep the world and our school a nice place.