NEWS

5th July 2024

Eco-School Achievement!

We are proud to announce that for the second year running, St Catherine's School have achieved our Eco-Schools Green Flag status! We have achieved our award with distinction this year, with more than double achievement points than last year. Thank you to all the children (and supportive parents) that have helped with our eco-projects, entered competitions and had a positive and proactive approach to helping make our world a more eco-friendly place. 

Our eco-team this year have also been amazing: working tirelessly planting wildflower seeds; giving up their lunch and break times to help litter picking; mapping our school site and habitats to join the National Education Nature Parks campaign; as well as helping to spread the word for our competitions and walk to school week. Well done team on a great year!

NEWS

10th June 2024

Competition entries

We have had lots of entries for our eco-competition to design a healthy city. Fingers crossed that one of our amazing entries is the winner! Thank you everyone who has entered.

Below are a few of our favourites for you to see. 

NEWS

7th June 2024

Eco-Team are helping our new trees to thrive

This week our eco-team has started to clear the weeds from our tree nursery, to give our baby trees an extra boost before planting after the summer holidays. We will spend the next couple of weeks clearing the space, and making sure the trees can get lots of light to grow as big and strong as possible before planting!

COMPETITION

Deadline 10th June

Design a 'Healthy City' and help us win £1,500 for eco-projects!

The St Catherine’s Eco-Team would like to invite you to take part in a competition to design a ‘Healthy City’.

The challenge is to create a city that would be healthy for all its inhabitants (including plants and wildlife). You will need to draw a picture of what you think your ‘healthy city would look like – maybe as a map, or a cityscape, or with zoomed in sections. Be as creative as you can, you are designer/inventor/creator of this new healthy city!

Here’s a few thoughts to inspire you:

-How would people travel in a healthy city?

-How will nature and wildlife be supported?

-What will people eat and how will they get their food?

-How will people reduce waste?

-Where will people live?

-How will your city’s community stay healthy?

If you would like to enter, you will need to ask your teacher for a form, and once completed, give it to Ms Tocco by the 10th of June, for the chance to win £1500 for your school to spend on eco-projects!

We are grateful for your help.

NEWS

20th - 24th May 2024

Outdoor classroom week

This week was outdoor classroom week! Lots of classes braved the unpredictable British weather and got outside for Maths, PSHE, Music, Science, and year 6 even got out and did some orienteering.

It was a lovely week, and we have been inspired to get outside more often. 

NEWS

9th May 2024

Hedgehog Champion!

A great big thank you to one of our eco-warriors Aurora (y3), who has already joined Hedgehog Champions and wanted to encourage others to get involved! She has baked the staff some lovely hedgehog themed cookies and given us some information to raise awareness of hedgehogs. Thank you Aurora!

If you would like to also become a hedgehog champion, and learn about how to help hedgehogs (as well as get free fun resources) then please join Hedgehog Street by following this link Become a Hedgehog Champion - Hedgehog Street

EDUCATION

2nd May 2024

5th-11th May is hedgehog awareness week!

Sadly hedgehog population numbers are falling, but there is still hope! The Hedgehog Conservation Charity has set up a portal for you to learn more about hedgehogs and to find out how to be a hedgehog champion. 

If you’re interested in helping hedgehogs, you could ask your parent or guardian about signing up to be a Hedgehog Champion with Hedgehog Street – a project run with People’s Trust for Endangered Species. If you decide to register, you can access free downloadable stuff including fact sheets, posters, action cards and invites to help you encourage people in your local area to be as hedgehog-friendly as you!

Find out more here

NEWS

26th April 2024

Wildflower seed planting

Today our eco team has been busy scattering native wildflower seeds around the school. The children learned about the importance of planting flowers native to the UK, and picked areas that they felt the flowers had a good chance of growing. 

We are very excited to see some beautiful flowers pop up over the summer! 

NEWS

25th March 2024

New litter pickers

Mrs Leslie has kindly invested in some new litter pickers for our eco-team! We are very excited to make a difference to our school grounds, and our members have already been out; working together to keep our school free of litter.  

NEWS

March 2024

Eco Team—Earth Hour

The St Catherine’s Eco-Team would like to invite you and your children to take part in Earth Hour on the 23rd March.

Earth hour asks you to take an hour out of your day to do something (anything!) positive for our planet. For example, you may decide to go litter picking in your local area, have an electronics free hour, have a family reading hour or play board games, work on an eco-project (like making bird feeders) or even do some stargazing.

We would love to hear about how you have spent your earth hour, so please share your experiences on seesaw or Tapestry! We realise that 8.30pm is a little late in the day, so any hour during the day given to help the planet would be great.

For more information and educational videos about Earth hour and the impact you can have on the planet, you can visit www.earthhour.org/about/the-biggest-hour-for-earth

ECO-PROJECT
November 2023

Cut your Carbon Month

For the whole of November we invited all our St Catherine's pupils to take part in Cut Your Carbon Month! We had over 70 children share their work in trying to help cut their carbon emissions, which helped contribute to reducing our collective carbon footprint. Something for us all to be proud of! 

You can read more about the impact of the Cut Your Carbon initiative here CYC IMPACT REPORT 2023-24 (c-6.net)

NEWS 

July 2024

We are now an eco-school! 

Thanks to all the work of our eco-team and also our school as a whole, we have successfully achieved eco-school status. This is a great achievement for everyone who has helped make our school a more eco-friendly place this past year. 

We are very excited about the new school year ahead, and for applying again next year with our new eco-team. We have some new fun eco-projects planned!