ACTION PLAN - Eco Schools Award
School – Roe Valley Integrated Primary School
Green flag Action Plan – School Grounds (Major)
Baseline Position
Targets to be Achieved
Where are we now?
(Qualitative and Quantitative)
Where do we want to go?
Date – October 2012
Success Criteria
How will we know when we’ve
got there?
(Qualitative and Quantitative)
Approaches to be used
How will we get there?
(including external links)
eg Business/Education
Partnership
School Grounds
School Grounds
School Grounds
School Grounds
One Vegetable Plot with no
garden as such
Create a separate garden for
all the key stages to explore.
ECO Garden in place and being
actively used by all classes.
Set up a new ECO council
through the completion of
application forms.
Make school grounds more
attractive.
Evidence of planting and
experimentation of growing
throughout the school.
Staff meetings informing
teachers of the ECO Award
and what they can achieve
within their class.
Work with LCDI and the Green
Shed
No flowers surrounding school
grounds.
No secluded area for children
to explore the outdoor
classroom.
Litter less evident in the
playgrounds
No display on outer wall
(requires art)
School has received Silver
award status ECO Schools
Recreate and work with council
to improve school grounds.
Invite parents to assist with
the creation of a bug hotel and
anything else they can assist
with
Whole School Assembly on
rubbish and its effects.
Re-visit fruit and waste bins.
All classes to complete work
related to rights (related the
healthy living)
Evidence of new initiatives
throughout the school.
Reduce amount of litter on
school grounds.
Improve appearance of school
grounds.
Each class has completed work
on Rights for our whole school
charter.
Children will have knowledge on
a healthier lifestyle.
ECO Monitors rotating various
roles so that targets are met.
Whole school assembly on the
discussion of whole school
charter and what applies to us.
Waste/Recycling
Each classroom has a
designated bin for recycling
paper.
Monitors are in place in KS2/1
Composting bins in place and
being used.
Recycling clothes bank
positioned prominently on
school grounds.
Introduced WOW project
throughout school in the third
term 2012.
ECO Display board in place.
KS1 and Foundation have
classroom monitors in place.
Environmental issues covered
throughout all areas of the
curriculum.
Waste Free Lunches in place.
Staff are reducing amount of
paper being used.
Continue developing healthy
lifestyles through all Key
Stages.
Encourage more active
extended schools, more variety
for Foundation.
New ECO Code to be completed
and decided by the council.
School Garden to be fitted
with areas for BioDiversity.
All lunchtime waste will be
taken home in empty lunch
boxes.
Paper usage will have
decreased.
Fuel and electricity
More ECO initiatives and
consumption will have been
competitions to be completed in lowered.
school.
Corridor and classroom displays
will reflect work done on
Recycle more of our waste
conservation issues.
through LCDI project. (Paper,
glass, plastic).
A wall will display issues
relevant to the school and the
ECO Schools Award.
Create link with Limavady
Recycling centre, visits, and Big
Spring Clean project.
Raise awareness of litter and
its implications for whole
environment.
Create links with the Green
Shed Project
Biodiversity Officer on Board
from Limavady Council.
Closer links will be developed
with Limavady Borough Council
and LCDI.
Waste shall be recorded and
data kept as evidence.
Role of ECO monitors shall be
evident throughout the school.
Parents shall be asked to
contribute wherever possible.
All staff will be more aware of
the need to conserve our
resources and make savings
where ever possible.
Parents will be informed of the
ongoing work in school, and the
importance of conserving
energy.
Children will participate in
maintaining waste to a minimum
and reducing energy
consumption.
Enter Best Kept Schools award.
KS2 children shall explore eco
friendly options for powering
our school.
Enter the Big Spring Clean
Reduce use of paper,
Teachers will plan on computer
as much as possible to reduce
paper waste.
Resources/Inset Needs
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INSET session for
informing teachers
and assessing
progression.
Time to become
familiar with the ECO
Award.
Students Council.
ECO Monitors/ set
time required for
meetings.
Assistance and
support from parents
and BOG.
Support Required
School
Staff/CASS/Other
Agencies
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School staff support.
Tidy NI
Limavady Council.
Teachers carrying
topics through
effectively
Local schools
Local shops
Support from World
Around Us coordinator.
Training
Implications
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All staff will
become more
aware of our
individual
responsibility
to protect and
care for the
environment.
Pupils will be
trained to be
more aware of
conservation
issues
affecting us.
Conservation, renewable energy
and other ‘green’ issues will be
evident throughout the whole
school.
Completion Date
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June 2013
Effect on Learning and Teaching
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All staff will become more aware of
our individual responsibility to protect
and care for the environment.
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Pupils will be trained to be more aware
of conservation issues affecting us all.
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There will be evidence throughout the
whole school of awareness of
environmental issues.
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ECO SCHOOLS AWARD
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RIGHTS RESPECTING SCHOOLS
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Set up an ECO Council. Meeting with
children at least once each month (Through
after sch or during school day)
Create an school ECO Code
Closer links with LCDI.
Enter Best Kept schools Award.
Develop school grounds.
Whole school approach to Recycling
Whole School assemblies one per month
(ECO and RRS)
Become more familiar with keeping
statistics of recycling (Michelle Loughery)
Whole school approach to recycling.
Resume waste free lunches and correct use
of bins.
Continue to encourage cut down on
omissions through our WOW project, and
possibility of “Sustrans Bike”
Visits to Recycling Centre to be arranged.
Altnahullion wind farms – parent to come in
and give information to KS2.
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Boards up and completed.
New display in assembly hall, created
through whole school assembly.
Parents and friends – present information
regarding rights respecting schools.
Create web page on new school website.
Find out more about playground monitors
(possibility of looking at it with P6 –
through cover sessions).
Session with lunchtime staff regarding
rights respecting schools.
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Letters home containing the rights.
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ECO Council set-up. Arrange to meet
children either a Monday 2/3 or after
school for one hour.
Assembly first Friday morning in Nov. set
competition.
Meeting with Michelle Loughery (Next
week) – develop recycling with ECO
monitors.
LCDI to start plots – possibility of Ciaran
Corr assisting with planting.
Set one Friday aside per month and deliver
either RRS or ECO (using councillors).
Set aside January/February – break
recycling into Key Stage areas so that
whole school has a focus. Inset before
Christmas.
Through ECO Councillors.
Possibility of starting November.
Contact John McCarron November for
Foundation and KS1.
Up for open evening.
Through assemblies with children – whole
school charter.(mentioned above)
Talk through with Laura – photos of PDMU
sessions.
Info from Jennifer – work alongside her to
identify what needs to be done and how to
implement it.
Possibly after mid – term, discussing
appropriate language and how to approach
confrontation.
Talk to Laura about a way of making this
less work for secretaries.
EVALUATION STRATEGIES - Monitoring on a continuous basis, whole school commitment to developing our school grounds, waste
and energy saving.