Eco Warriors | Valley Primary School

Valley Primary School prides itself on ensuring we are an Eco School, looking after our environment, being Eco-friendly and ensuring we are energy efficient. We strive to teach all our children the importance of preserving both their local and global environment.

Their main responsibilities include:

Collating ideas from each of the classes
Recycling
Planting
Promoting Energy Efficiency
Organising Eco-friendly activities
Producing a Newsletter to increase awareness of Eco Issues
Working towards the Food for Life Award
Working towards the Eco Award
Helping school leaders to make decisions about Eco related issues
Meeting with Governors of our school to update them on the progress of our school in becoming an Eco-friendly School.

This year, our Eco warriors are:

Mason and Neave	Bell	Year 1
Leah and Tommy	Lee	Year 1
Kori and Isaac	Shaw	Year 1
Sammy and Rudy	Pankhurst	Year 2
Max and Arwa	Churchill	Year 2
Emma and Libby	Nightingale	Year 2
Poppy and Frankie	Hockney	Year 3
Jorjee and Harrison	Riley	Year 3
Jack and Ifra	Lowry	Year 3
Sylvie and Charles	Newton	Year 4
Shrie and Miley	Sharman	Year 4
Leuila and Sienna	Hawking	Year 4
Noah and Ruby	Webber	Year 5
Euan and Isla	Holst	Year 5
Grace and Lyla	Lynn	Year 5
Alfie and Elizabeth	Ennis	Year 6
William and Omar	Farah	Year 6
Imogen and Mia	Simmods	Year 6

Our Eco Warriors work to celebrate so far...

The Eco Warriors wanted to say thank you to all those who donated empty crisp packets. The ECO warriors counted a total of 1800 crisp packets. We have 12 bags to send off, which should make 12 blankets for the homeless. What an achievement!

The Eco Warriors put out the following appeal in our drive to make a blanket for a homeless person.

Dear parents,

URGENT APPEAL: EMPTY CRISP PACKETS NEEDED!

Did you know that currently the majority of crisp packets in the UK and worldwide are not recyclable so they have to go to landfill?

As ECO Warriors we have been offered the opportunity to help with a very exciting and rewarding recycling scheme. This will involve recycling used crisp packets and turning them into blankets for homeless people.

As you can imagine we will need lots of used crisp packets. We are hoping that over the Christmas holidays you eat lots of crisps and then send your empty crisp packets into school no later than the 9^th January 2021. We will most likely continue this scheme and release further dates in the future, so please continue to collect after this date also.

It is very important that the crisp packets are clean and flattened. We hope you are just as excited as us and we thank you in advance for your help.

Many thanks

Valley ECO Warriors.

The Eco Warriors Switch-off fortnight appeal to their peers in school and parents at home to save energy.

Switch-off Fortnight Energy Saving Take Home Sheet

Our ECO team worked hard to save energy during Switch off Fortnight. They passed on a big thank you to everyone who helped to save energy for the Campaign.

Valley #Litterheroes took part in the Keep Britain Tidy Great British September clean up campaign. In one assembly, we discussed the impact that litter has on the environment and how we must all work together to keep our environment clean and litter free. Some children spent their playtimes helping to clean up our school grounds. Thank you to all those involved, we were amazed at how much litter we found. Even though our school grounds are kept clean and tidy, we found litter had gathered in the bushes.