Eco-Schools
Eco-Schools is a national programme which gives schools a simple, seven-step framework to follow, with a goal of achieving the Eco-School Green Flag Award. The purpose is to empower young people to make a difference in their school, local community and beyond. There are costs to join but it gives schools lots of useful resources and having the framework in place helps to break large, global issues like climate change into more manageable and directed themes at a local level.
- Recycling, waste or composting assemblies and workshops for primary schools - these can focus on recycling, composting or reducing waste.
- Safe and Active Travel for primary schools - in-school sessions to help to decrease the number of car journeys being made to school.
- Country Parks experiences for school groups - education visits are available from February through to November each year and are held at Ryton Country Park and Kingsbury Water Park.
- If you are signed up to the programme, then you can also access three environmental programmes run by Warwickshire County Council to contribute towards your Eco-School Green Flag Award. In each case, we run assemblies and workshops to help children and young people understand how they can help the environment. They fall under the three Eco-Schools topics of biodiversity, travel and waste:
- Schools in the programme connect their activities to three or more of the ten Eco-Schools topics. These include biodiversity, energy, global citizenship, healthy living, litter, marine, school grounds, transport, waste and water.