St Peter’s achieve the Eco – Schools Green Flag award at distinction level!
We are thrilled to announce that St Peter’s Church of England Primary School have been awarded the Eco – Schools Green Flag at distinction level!
The award feedback was extremely positive and acknowledged that our ‘young people engaged so enthusiastically with your school’s Climate Education’ and ‘the whole school community was involved in the Eco-School initiative.’
The feedback also praised our energy saving initiatives:
‘We loved the idea of a ‘Golden Light Switch Award’ and the success it has brought to both awareness and reduction of energy.’
Excitingly, we are already starting to see some financial savings since introducing the Golden Light Switch award; we hope to see this saving increase year-on-year. Mrs Williams, our Climate Education lead, said:
‘The Climate Crew have worked extremely hard this year driving our eco – projects. Their enthusiasm has been inspirational. We are looking forward to building on our eco-work next year with even more exciting projects! It has been a real team effort. The children and staff team could not have been more supportive. We are very proud of our St Peter’s family.’
Currently, the Climate Crew are in the early stages of starting a gardening club and have been busy sowing vegetables and plants from seed. Eco – Schools also praised the work of our Business Manager, Mrs Foster, who worked with the Climate Crew to calculate our school’s carbon footprint. The school has already sought ways to reduce this footprint by participating in making eco-friendly changes to the building, such as LED lights, hosting three walks to school days and launching our ‘St. Peter’s walking bus’.
We have also designed and implemented a whole school climate education curriculum, with dedicated climate education lessons and whole school reading spine. So, a HUGE thank you to the wonderful staff, children and the wider St Peter’s school community for working together to achieve this fantastic award and supporting our Climate Education work.
Our final walk to school day is this Friday (27th June). Last time, we were joined by Harry Gator from Harrogate Town Football Club. This Friday, we will be joined by Spike the Road Safety Hedgehog. We hope as many children as possible, and their families, will be able to join us!
