Eco Schools

Significant Eco Dates

23rd-25th January - The Big Garden Birdwatch

2nd-8th March - Waste Week

13th-29th March - Great Big School Clean

8th-14th June - Water Week

Eco-Schools is a global programme engaging 19.5 million children across 67 countries, making it the largest educational programme on the planet.

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For over 25 years, Eco-Schools has been empowering children to drive change and improve their environmental awareness through the simple Seven-Step framework in order to achieve the international Eco-Schools Green Flag.

Eco-Schools develops pupils’ skills, raises environmental awareness, improves the school environment and creates financial savings for schools as well as a whole host of other benefits.

Pheasey Park Farm Primary School and Early Years Centre achieved the Eco Schools Green Flag in 2017. Since then, we have successfully renewed our Green Flag five times, as renewal of the award used to be compulsory every two years but is now annually.

The most recent Green Flag renewal was successful in 2026 where we received the award with a Merit and received the following detailed feedback:

Your Greatest Overall Success

Award Level: Merit

Focus Topics:

We were delighted to read that your year with Eco-Schools has again been a positive experience with a great deal of engagement and involvement in environmental issues across the whole school community. It is superb that your pupil's knowledge and awareness of the issues have expanded and they have learnt how their own choices and actions can help make a positive difference. Equally great is hearing about the success of projects like your fantastic texile collections, Christmas jumper stall, book swap, Waste Week and the Big Birdwatch as well as the main projects which were well supported by families.

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Our Eco Code

The Eco Code is our school environmental mission statement which reflects the topics that our Eco action plan is based on and demonstrates our school's commitment to being sustainable.

Every year, pupils throughout the school are set the challenge to create an updated Eco Code that reflects our school Eco actions, which they are informed about through key stage assemblies and the Eco display board. The Eco Committee then engage in discussion about all the entries and vote on which they believe to be the most relevant, effective Eco Code. The chosen Eco Code is displayed in prominent places around the school including classrooms, main reception, staff room, corridors and offices.

Watching ‘Your Planet’ on BBC Newsround is a great way to keep up to date with news articles related to nature and the environment.

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