Page Updated 20.09.24
Eco Warriors Run by Mrs Scanlon
Our Eco Warriors for this year:
- Year 1 = Marshall and Zainab
- Year 2 = Chloe. S, Lola and Jonathon
- Year 3 = Harry and Mia
- Year 4 = Holly and Ivy
- Year 5 = Ollie. J and Mary
- Year 6 = Jake, Isla, Finlay, Lewis and Olivia
Footsteps:
With increased amounts of traffic nowadays, the safety of children on our roads has never been more important and so it is vital that children learn how to be safer pedestrians and road users.
Oxfordshire County Council have a child pedestrian Road Safety scheme called Footsteps, aimed at parents and carers.
Footsteps - a Parents' Guide to teaching road safety.
Our Eco Code:
Eco Club Latest:
We have received the following email:
Congratulations on passing your Eco-Schools Green Flag
We are very pleased to tell you that you and your Eco-Committee at Stanford in the Vale Primary 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 a member of staff and that key members of the SLT were deeply involved.
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 example. It was great to see that young people were responsible for completing those meeting minutes – this helps them develop new skills! This is a mature and professional approach. Great work!
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. It was also brilliant to read that the Environmental Review helped your pupils appreciate everything that your school is already doing to benefit our environment and identify areas to work on in the future. Your Action Plan shows that your Eco-Committee have carefully considered how they can involve their entire school in their planned Eco-Schools' activities to achieve maximum impacts and raise awareness amongst their school community. We love the range of activities that you and your Eco-Committee planned for delivery. The fact that they cover both indoor (an Earth Day and an energy-free day, an animal welfare fundraiser and adopting an endangered animal) and outdoor (regular litter-picks and creating raised beds for growing fruit, vegetable and herbs, a Walk to School Week and the Big Birdwatch) activities is excellent. It was also great to see accountability and a monitoring scheme clearly marked in your Action Plan, although we were surprised there was no 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 loved seeing the excellent photos of your pupil's work and the photos of them enjoying their activities. 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. 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. It's also good to see your Eco-Committee members on the board. This is a great way to raise their esteem and make their schoolmates feel like they can approach them and get involved with your Eco-Schools work! We love how active your Eco-Committee was in communicating their activities school-wide with both assembly and class feedback and use of the school Class Dojo, newsletter, website and 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 with your terrific Walk to School Week, collecting for both Bags2School and collecting batteries and taking part in the Big Birdwatch – superb work! We are certain that your pupils will have greatly benefitted from your involvement with such outside organisations as Sustrans, Durracell, the RSPB and Earth Day.
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. The parent quote is a great testament to the work that you are doing with your Eco-Committee, that they are taking their Eco-Schools work home with them and getting their families on board is something to be proud of! 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 superb energy and litter reducing and lovely biodiversity initiatives and, most of all, your terrific sustainable travel promotions and adopting an endangered animal (we loved those) all nicely stand out!
Congratulations to everyone for the great work you have managed to do, earning your Green Flag with Distinction in style. You should all be very proud of your work and the application you have submitted!
The chickens' new names
Thank you to all that took part.
Marshmallow Named by Jake yr5
Blossem named by Eira yr2
Oreo named by Isabella yr1
Babs named by Allister Foundation
Betty named by Daisy yr2
Matilda named by Kayne yr6
Hen solo named by Alfie yr5
Henny penny named by Mary yr4
Traffic Survey
During Eco Club, we completed a traffic survey to see how many vehicles travel through our village.
Big Schools Birdwatch
Our Eco club took part in The Big Bird Watch. We made sure we fed the birds, to keep them happy over the winter months.
Battery Collections
PLEASE support our recycling of batteries! We have a battery collection centre in the foyer of our school so please do bring in any used batteries and we will recycle them for you.