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. The Eco-Warriors are children who have a love for the environment and have volunteered to help the staff and children at Valley become more environmentally friendly. They play an active role helping the school become more eco-friendly and they come up with new ideas on how to promote sustainability at home as well as at school.

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’s Eco Warriors are:

Elijah S	Bell	Year 1
Sophie K	Lee	Year 1
Mehran H	Shaw	Year 1
Benjamin S	Pankhurst	Year 2
Ali U	Churchill	Year 2
Harrison B	Nightingale	Year 2
Manraj D	Hockney	Year 3
George T	Riley	Year 3
Maddie M	Lowry	Year 3
Penelope J	Newton	Year 4
Jack W	Sharman	Year 4
Millie M	Hawking	Year 4
Sammy P	Webber	Year 5
Setmi J	Holst	Year 5
Jayden W	Lynn	Year 5
Sarah R	Ennis	Year 6
Ava M	Farah	Year 6
Kian L	Simmonds	Year 6

Eco-Warrior's Spring 2 Challenge

Show our Valley Value of Kindness by collecting litter at the park. 

Our Eco Warrior's work to celebrate so far...

Eco Warriors in KS2 conducted switch off monitoring, checking around school on energy usage and switching off things that aren’t being used.

To celebrate Earth Day, the Eco Warriors wanted to focus on using less energy across school.

To reduce electricity usage and help the planet, little things like switching off lights and screens when we aren't using them can make a huge difference. Children across school were set the challenge of creating posters to support this message. Eco Warriors chose a winning poster from their class and displayed posters around school to spread the message. What can you do to reduce your energy usage at home?

Thank you for sending in old Christmas cards for recycling.

The Eco Warriors looked carefully at the back of cards to check for the symbol that shows the card is recyclable. If you have any more Christmas cards at home (or birthday cards!), please remember to check if you can recycle them.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the school litter picking event.

The Eco Warriors led an assembly about the problems that can be caused by litter and why it is so important to dispose of waste properly. They then led their classes in litter picking at break time, with the class collecting the most litter winning some extra break time! The Eco Warriors would like to encourage everyone to get involved at home with picking up any litter they see and disposing of their own litter in the right bins.

Thank you for sending in your old Christmas cards. On the Junior site, we counted up the Christmas cards and it came to a total of 752! Now the cards have been collected and sorted, a member of staff will take them to the nearest Sainsbury’s store. Read the latest edition of the Pupil Leadership News to find out more..

• Pupil Leadership News - Eco-Warrior Edition 1.pdf

  

The Eco-Warriors gave an assembly to celebrate Climate Change day, their achievements this year and explain how we can help make the school more environmentally friendly, including looking for the most eco-friendly class at Valley!

The Eco-Warriors have helped create a Jubilee Garden to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and also attract insects and bees.

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 held a virtual meeting with Jenny from Zero wasters at Hobs Moat to help with our latest recycling initiative. The Eco-warriors want to collect old crisp packets and recycle them.