Eco-Schools Green Flag Award at Stokes Wood Primary School
I would like to congratulate you on achieving your Eco-Schools Green Flag Award during the last academic year. In Leicester we have 56 Green Flag Eco-Schools. You are part of an elite list of schools with fantastic environmental credentials. We have high environmental ambitions for Leicester, especially around supporting environmental education in our schools. It’s your hard work and dedication which makes your school standout, and which is helping Leicester achieve our environmental targets. We are really pleased to see how much work you and the students have done to develop your eco-projects, eco-code and ensure that the whole school community is involved. This is a fantastic achievement and really important to the work we are doing in Leicester to be more environmentally aware and take action during our climate emergency. Congratulations once again and keep up the great work!
Yours sincerely
Cllr Adam Clarke - Deputy City Mayor Climate, Economy and Culture
Energy Sparks East Midlands Regional Champions
The school council has been working with Mr Smith the Site Manager to reduce energy use, prevent heat loss and generally develop more sustainable ways of running our school. The school is part of the Energy Sparks project which encourages schools by providing tool kits, suggested activities for staff and pupils and a range of useful resources. Schools are given points and there is a league table. The hard work of pupils and staff meant we finished in top position and won the £500 prize.
Plastic Clever Schools Award
Stokes Wood has been awarded Plastic Clever School status.
The school council and Year 4 have worked really hard to change the way we all use plastic at school. We hope this will transfer to home to.
The school catering team have purchased reusable dishes instead of using once used plastic pots for jellies and whip etc. In addition, pupils take it in turns to wash out any plastic yogurt and ice cream pots so they can be recycled. 2 Year 4 pupils led an assembly which is being used by Picture News and the 2 Year 4 pupils were nominated for a Plastic Clever pupil voice award…..which they won. Congratulations!!
The school also achieved GREEN FLAG status once again for 2023.
Plastic Clever Conference
A group of Year 3 and Year 4 Eco-Warriors took part in the Plastic Clever Schools Conference with Mr Sorby. They completed a plastic audit, devised an action plan to recycle more yogurt pots and ice cream pots at lunchtime and put it all into place on their return. They achieved the Level 2 investigate certificate which helped the school achieve the ECO Schools Green Flag 2023.
The school council and Mr Smith, our site manager, have been investigating how to save energy and put different strategies in place. At present Stokes Wood are at the top of the Energy Sparks league for the East Midlands.
Safer Internet Day Competition
