Eco Council

Eco Council 

Welcome to a section on the school’s website dedicated to our environmental work in and around the school. We believe that by raising awareness of the benefits and promoting the use and enjoyment of the natural environment, we can also encourage and highlight the need for its care.
 

Eco Council Mission Statement
Anson's Eco Council tries to encourage every pupil in our school to care for our environment. The council will help everyone to do this through giving information and by setting a good example. We will help pupils take part in council meetings where everyone can contribute ideas and opinions. We want to make the world a better place and encourage pupils to become happy, healthy responsible citizens. We want to make our school a fun place to learn and grow.

 

Eco Council Meetings 

We meet every week with Mrs Hayward to discuss any new ideas that we have. Here’s what we have been up to so far this year:

 

Summer term 

One of our  Class 4 members spotted that we have a hedgehog living under the new shed! We have been litter picking and making posters to keep the hedgehog safe and sheltered. 
 

We are also in our busiest term, we had a lovely afternoon with some parent volunteers planting new crops in the beds. Each class is helping to keep them watered every week. 
 

Spring term 

We have started the year by tidying our outdoor classroom. 

We were given some living willow so have planted that in our outdoor classroom, hoping to create a small Reading den. 

We have been fundraising by planting 100 sunflower seeds, nurturing them until sprouted and then sold them for £1 each. This is part of our ‘Grow a sunflower’ competition. We will measure them again at the end of the year to decide the winner from each class. 

We have also been to the churchyard to help tidy it up ready for the Summer. 

 

 

Autumn Term 

During September our first job was to pick the apples and pears from the trees to use in school deserts. We also harvested the last of the potatoes, beans and tomatoes then cleared the veg beds ready for Winter. 
 

We came up with some fundraising ideas for the year. The biggest one was the Jumble Sale. We created a poster to advertise it and raised nearly £200 from the event!