St Lawrence CE Primary School
Eco Champions
We are proud to announce that at the end of the summer we were awarded the Green Flag Eco Award! This is due to the hard work of Mrs Brown and her Eco Champions and Mrs Parks and her Global Ambassadors. We are now proud to display the logo on our headed paper and on our website. We also have a certificate that will be proudly displayed in our entrance hall. Here are some of the comments we received in our feedback:
“Your greatest success was transforming the Spiritual Garden into a calming Eco-space, providing pupils with meaningful opportunities to deepen their connection with nature and promoting long-term positive impacts on biodiversity and sustainable Eco practices. Well done!”
“We loved how your school developed a partnership with St Lawrence Eco-Church to create impactful biodiversity projects, such as building a hedgehog home with the help of the Men’s Shed, which has given pupils a hands-on connection to their local environment and inspired ongoing stewardship.”
“It was fantastic how the whole school was involved in planting sunflowers and herbs, encouraging every pupil to take responsibility for biodiversity care, which will cultivate a culture of ownership and pride that supports long-term environmental impact. We enjoyed finding out about your innovative ‘Bin-It Brigade’ and community litter-picking efforts, which brought together families and provided practical lessons in Eco-litter management, empowering pupils to make positive changes both at school and at home.”
A big thank you to Mrs Brown and Mrs Parks for all the work they and the children have put in this year. Over the summer Mrs Brown (and Mr Brown!) have transformed our Spiritual Garden. We now have a beautiful space for a whole class of children to sit and experience outdoor learning complete with a new chalkboard and bespoke benches. Pupils will be able to chat to friends and to observe insects in the bug hotel. Thank you to the PTA for funding this. Please see the photos that show the wonderful transformation.
Our links with ACAN (Alton Climate Action Network)
Eco Conference - January 2025
Our Key Stage 2 Global Ambassadors and Eco Champions were given the wonderful opportunity to take part in an Eco Conference hosted by Young ACAN. There was an interactive presentation by Roland Richardson who is a 'waste champion' at Hampshire County Council and then the children took part in a couple of workshops.
When back at school, the children led a collective worship to feedback what they learnt at the Eco Conference.
Waste Beast Animation Competition
KS2 children were given the opportunity to take part in a Young ACAN competition. The children were asked to design a comic strip about the Waste Beast and how it could be defeated. Our school had a winner and she was given the opportunity to help create an animation and voice record for the Young ACAN Waste Beast Animation.