The Eco Council is made up of representatives from every class from year 1 to year 6, several members of staff and a governor.
Over the course of the year we will lead campaigns in the school to avoid waste, encourage recycling and save resources such as water and electricity.
Another role of the Eco Council is to raise awareness within the school community of the ongoing climate crisis and the importance of looking after our environment.
The children on the Eco Council will also have the opportunity to grow vegetables in the school allotment and learn about the importance of biodiversity and healthy ecosystems.
Waste Audit
We have come to the end of our sustainability project with ‘In the Know’ and North London Waste Authority. This week our visitors came back to do audit 2 with Mrs Fitzpatrick and the Eco Council. They came to weigh our waste and to see if we had made improvements since the project began.
We are delighted to say that they were impressed with both our waste audit action plan and our waste reduction.
The three highlights from our project were:
- We developed a curriculum map with links which is rolling out in September 2027.
- Teachers from Holly Park attended a training day.
- School chefs received training on how to prevent food waste.
Between the two audits, overall waste has dropped a lot, especially food waste, and rubbish is now being sorted better with more in the correct bin
- Recycling rate went from 69% to 86%.
- Waste went from 127Kg per day to 31Kg per day
- Waste and recycling accuracy had improved since audit 1 and now 97% of waste is in the right bin!
Overall, we are producing less waste and there is better accuracy in waste going into the correct bins. All kinds of waste have been reduced including food waste from classrooms, offices and playgrounds which is now also going in the correct bins. Well done to everyone for being more aware of waste in general.
