Congratulations to all of our students for their wonderful contributions to our Eco-Schools projects last year, their efforts not only won us a Green Flag Award, but we were also selected as Eco-School of the Year! This is a great achievement and testament to the hard work of our students and staff, helping make our school a greener place to be.

Every year, we are amazed by the incredible work of Eco-Schools across the country. The projects and initiatives consistently delivered by pupils and staff are impactful, innovative, and inspiring. Your continued excellence makes selecting schools for individual awards a challenging task, often leading to lively debates and disagreements among the Eco-Schools Team. For each award, we could have chosen many deserving winners. However, we were tasked with selecting just one winner for each topic. Below are our selected winners and their stories. Each of them, in one way or another, embodies the essence of what makes the Eco-Schools programme so important. Congratulations to you all, and thank you for your dedication to making a positive impact on our environment!

Great Oaks Small School have managed to achieve a great amount, by placing environmental issues at the heart of everything they do. With their environmentally-aware pupils at the centre of everything, their list of achievements from September 23 to July 24 is incredible. They managed woodland, grew gourds to turn into musical instruments, created a variety of habitats, nurtured native hedgerows, allowed bee-friendly wildflowers to grow, harvested a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, composted, propagated, fed and housed animals, litter-picked, and beach cleaned. Great Oaks Small School we were mightily impressed by your application – congratulations on becoming one of our Eco-Schools of the Year!  

https://www.eco-schools.org.uk/about/topic-awards-2024/