Eco Week
Thanks to our whole school community for a fantastic Eco Week.
Events included a woodland scavenger hunt around the school, screenings of Finding Nemo and David Attenborough documentaries, a bird feeder workshop, an environmental art competition, a display for our foyer (thank you 9F), an assembly supported by the Year 8 Eco Reps, a biodiversity workshop with the charity GenEarth, and a buzzing swap shop of pre-loved items.
Various teachers designed activities within their lessons to show students how eco-education can relate to all of their subjects. In Psychology, Year 12 students designed pilot studies into students’ views of climate change and learned about ways to cope with eco-anxiety. Students wrote essays and conducted debates on environmental issues in RS. In DT, students learned how architectural design can work sustainably, using a school in India as a case study. In computing, students learned about green coding, and in classics, students learned about Roman concrete and how this is being used today as a more sustainable alternative. Students also learned about influential French and Spanish climate campaigners in MFL. Our immersion continued at lunchtime thanks to our catering team, who offered an extended vegetarian menu for the week to the accompaniment of ambient sounds from nature as we ate.
Following Eco Week, we will send out details of how our students can sell or buy pre-loved Duke of Edinburgh’s Award equipment. We have also launched a new recycling drive for products that cannot be recycled at home. Starting with crisp packets, students should continue to bring in empty, flattened crisp packets to be recycled via the box in the foyer. We would also like to remind our community that we are very interested in the ways students help their local environment at home, with merits awarded for the best efforts.