CASE STUDY: THE ECO SCHOOL
A year ago. Echline Primary School in South Oueensferry earned its green flag as an Eco-School. iorning a worldwrde organisation that promotes sustainability in schools and their communities. Echline's depute head teacher Heather Gray led the way.
‘We started about two years ago. I had been doing a lot of work on grounds improvement, and it kind of grew out of that.
‘We really don't have much problem with discipline here because the kids have got loads to do. We've got a trim trail and traversing walls to play on. We‘ve also got a pond and we recently put in a fantastic birdbox that's linked to a TV. There are tadpoles in the pond and blue-tits hatching in the box and the kids get to see all that.
‘I sold the idea to the staff by telling them it hits a lot of the curriculum. For example, we had kids monitoring the gas bills and putting them onto graphs, so that hit maths, and some activities involve IT skills. I also linked it to enterprise education: if we're writing begging letters we get kids to write them — it works much beflen
‘Eco—Schools have bronze. silver and green flag levels and
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10 I promise to organise or volunteer for an environmental project
Your local Volunteer Centre can help you contact a SUItable Organisation. Log on to W‘JNLVOIUHIGGFSCOllaHFl.lflfO.
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