Eco-Schools
Introduction (from the Eco-Schools website)
The Government in England wants every school to be a sustainable school by 2020. The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) launched their Sustainable Schools Framework in 2006 when the Secretary of State for Education, the Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP set out challenging long-term aspirations for schools to mainstream learning about sustainable development issues and sustainable practices into everyday school life.
Eco-Schools is an international award programme that guides schools on their sustainable journey, providing a framework to help embed these principles into the heart of school life.
Eco-Schools is one of five environmental education programmes run internationally by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE). In addition to Eco-Schools, FEE runs Green Key, Young Reporters for the Environment, Blue Flag and Learning about Forests. There are 40 countries around the world that run the Eco-Schools programme, linking more than 40,000 schools – from the UK to France, from Morocco to South Africa.
Visit www.eco-schools.net for more details on this international programme.
Eco-Schools at Bovey Tracey Primary School
At our school we are very proud to have our Eco-schools committee as we care so much about our environment and, Bovey Tracey it-self, is a very environmentally aware town.
Our Eco-schools Committee has two representatives from each class along with a group of teachers, our caretaker and parent and governor representatives.
We meet each half-term to discuss ideas and to set out an action plan for developing our schools sustainability.