Eco Energy Savers

What is an Eco School?

Since 1994 the Eco-Schools Framework has guided and empowered millions of young people to deliver eco-projects that make their school more sustainable, increase environmental learning, and benefit their local community. Eco-Schools’ seven simple steps can be adapted for any setting, budget, and timescale. Schools that complete the seven steps can apply for our prestigious award, the Eco-Schools Green Flag.

How do we get the Green Flag Award?

Step 1: Eco-Committee

An Eco-Committee is a group of young people who, with the support of one or more adult Eco-Coordinators, lead the Eco-Schools programme in school. The Eco-Committee will meet regularly throughout the academic year, plan and deliver environmental projects, and inspire their schoolmates and wider school community.

Step 2: Environmental Review

An Eco-Committee completes an Environmental Review of school. The Review can be completed as a group, or in smaller teams, and is a great way to identify environmental initiatives already taking place in your school, areas for improvement, and opportunities for quick eco-wins.

Step 3: Action Plan

Inspired by the Environmental Review, an Eco-Committee plans and delivers projects and actions for Eco-Schools topics across the academic year. Eco-Committee choose the issues to tackle. Actions can be big or small; simple or complex; funded or free – it is up to the Eco-Committee!

Step 4: Curriculum Links

Alongside taking action, it is important to understand why action is needed, so we will link climate change to at least three areas of curriculum learning during the year.

Step 5: Informing and Involving

Step 5 encourages Eco-Committees to get loud about Eco-Schools’ work whilst involving others in as many ways as they can. The Eco-Committee might share work through newsletters, social media, local press, or environmentally-themed pupil-planned assemblies.

Step 6: Monitoring and Evaluation

It is important for an Eco-Committee to understand the positive impacts they have created by monitoring and evaluating the projects in their Action Plan. This provides a platform to build on and will help inspire others to get involved in the future.

Step 7: Eco-Code

The final task for an Eco-Committee is creating an Eco-Code. This takes all your learning and inspiration and channels it into a mission statement that acts as a call to action for all. Your Eco-Code could be a poster, poem, or even a song, but whatever form it takes it should show your passion and inspire others.

Latest Updates!

Mark Maguire, an energy engineer, from Lancashire County Council, came in to school to talk to our Energy Savers to help us audit the school.

After a quick heat check to see that the buildings insulation was pretty solid, we moved onto wasted electricity. Did you know that each of our school lights costs roughly 10p, per day, to operate? After a bit of quick maths, we realised that leaving every light in the school switched on was costing over £100 every day!

The Energy Savers have made this their first mission... Turn of the lights when they are not in use!

Informing and Involving Others

Our Action Plan

We are committed to being an Eco School - take a look at our ideas for this academic year!