Congratulations!!!
Fantastic work, Mr Firth!
We are very pleased to tell you that you and your Eco-Committee at Kelvin Hall School have been successful in meeting the requirements for the Eco-Schools Green Flag Award.
We reviewed your application and noted the following:
It's wonderful that you have appointed such a representative Eco-Committee, this shows your school’s excellent commitment to both the programme and the eco-cause. It’s great to see that you had such a group of eager, enthusiastic volunteers. It was also wonderful to see that they were supported by two members of staff.
We love that you kept minutes from your meetings and that they helped to track, guide and prompt your activity, and thank you for including the excellent examples. It was wonderful to see how completing your Environmental Review helped to raise the level of awareness in your school and helped your Eco-Committee to identify the issues and spot gaps in your school's existing environmental activity. But equally important is that it helped you to recognise the great work that you were already doing. This helps to keep up the good activity whilst making you feel empowered to do different things. We love this!
We loved the range of activities that you and your Eco-Committee planned for delivery. The fact that they cover both indoor (promoting recycling with posters and bin labels and introducing classroom plants) and outdoor (growing your own produce and creating a sensory garden, planting trees, hedges and making birdhouses) activities is excellent. It was also great to see accountability clearly marked in your Action Plan, although we were surprised there was no real Monitoring scheme or Evaluation system in place. Great work though!
Your Curriculum Link examples are imaginative, practical and fun, making environmental education accessible and engaging, well done! We’re really impressed at how you’ve linked environmental issues to a variety of curriculum areas.
We loved seeing the superb examples of your teaching materials, curriculum planners and pupil’s work. This is a great example of layering in sustainability and climate change into your studies. We loved reading about how you had incorporated learning about global issues not only into the Geography and Science Curriculum (most common ones) in your school, but also into other areas such as PSHE and RE. Great work! A challenge for next year might be expanding this to incorporate these issues into other areas of learning like English, Maths, Art or D&T! Your Eco-Board is great.
Your board is incredibly visual and engaging and promotes your work in a very attractive way. We loved seeing how active your Eco-Committee was in communicating their activities school-wide with both assembly and class feedback and use of the school social media as well as the Eco-board itself. These all combine to make a great approach! We love that your pupils have taken their great work beyond the school gates and into their local community.
We believe many congratulations are deserved by your HedgeHunter award from Loughborough University and your superb grant award from “Oh Yes Net Zero” and Hull University and planting over 400 trees with Rewilding Youth – absolutely fantastic! We are certain that your pupils will have greatly benefitted from your involvement with such outside organisations.
Your Eco-Code is really smart and concise. It's a great message and its punchy nature will definitely help it be processed by everyone passing by your Eco-Board. I hope you and your Eco-Committee take great pride in your achievements, when listed it's surprising how many there are – however, the improvements to your school environment with your excellent recycling and lovely biodiversity initiatives and, most of all, your amazing tree planting efforts and fantastic award and grant for future projects (we loved those) all nicely stand out! Congratulations to everyone for the great work you have managed to do, earning your Green Flag with Merit in style. You should all be very proud of your work and the application you have submitted!
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