Eco Committee
Welcome to the Eco Committee webpage
Croeso i dudalen we'r Pwyllgor Eco
Work Together - Play Together - Succeed Together
2023 - 2024
Meet our Eco Committee Members 2023 - 2024
April 2024: What an amazing response to our Eco Committee's 'Bring a Plant to School Day'! Our school grounds look wonderful. Diolch yn fawr to all the parents and grandparents who helped the children with their planting.
Members of the Eco Committee visited Viridor Energy Recovery Facility, where they discovered how Cardiff's rubbish is disposed of and reused in roads and cement.
The Eco Committee with Chloe from Coed Caerdydd planting a cherry tree in the school grounds. 🍒 #WPSEco
Diolch yn fawr for all your generous donations to our Harvest Assembly. The Eco Committee has teamed up with Cardiff Foodbank to send the food to aid people who are facing crisis.
Diolch yn fawr to the Waste Strategy Team for their workshop with our Eco Committee, discussing the importance of using the correct bins ready for Recycling Week.
The Eco Committee busy litter-picking on the school site.
Eco Committee 2022 - 2023
At Whitchurch Primary School, we believe it is important for pupils to take ownership of their learning and have greater roles in school decision-making. We provide many opportunities for children to play a role in making the decisions that affect them. We recognise that pupils have logical perspectives and opinions on issues that matter in the classroom, in the school and in the community. We give pupils an active role in influencing decisions about these issues as well as in the implementation of these decisions. We enabling pupils to participate as active young citizens.
What we do:
As Eco Council, we have given ourselves the following job description…
- To carry out an environmental review to evaluate our school’s performance against the nine Eco topics and write an action plan for the year ahead.
- Renew our Platinum Green flag by keeping our school environmentally friendly and a sustainable place.
- Follow our Eco Code by promoting environmental awareness and understanding to pupils, staff and the wider community.
- Share our Eco work by organising assemblies, hold an Eco stall during key events such as Fairtrade Fortnight/ Christmas Fair and collaborate together to organise fun school events and competitions.
- Be reflective learners when monitoring and evaluating the impact of our Eco action.
- Present our work to our Governing Body on a regular basis.
- Evaluate our action plan at the end of the year and identify our strengths and areas to improve for the following year.
Eco Activities 2022 - 2023
Dewch â Phlanhigyn i’r Ysgol
The Eco Committee organised 'Bring a Plant to School Day' on 2nd May, to involve everyone in enhancing our outdoor environment. Each child was helped to plant their own flower or cutting - and our school looks wonderful! Thank you for all your donations and all the parents who gave up their time to help us!
We celebrated Earth Day on 22nd April and the Eco Committee gave presentations about environmental protection and looking after our world.
Eco Book Swap: the Eco Committee asked children in Progression Step 3 to bring an unwanted book to school and exchange it for another on World Book Day. Happy Reading!
Thank you to Chris from Coed Caerdydd for helping us plant our new cherry trees outside the Year 4 area.
Eco Activities 2021 - 2022
2021 - 2022 Eco Committee
Our Year 3 children created a Deforestation Awareness Movie in conjunction with Bigfoot Arts Education. It is an important message that the children have worked incredibly hard to capture in a moving and emotive way. We are very proud of our masterpiece, which you can view at the following link:
Bring a Plant to School Day in May 2022 - all children brought a flower or cutting to school and planted it to enhance our school grounds.
We were delighted to welcome Lee Waters MS, Deputy Minister for Climate Change, to Whitchurch Primary School to launch a pilot project in North Cardif lowering the speed limit on the roads to 20mph.
He met with members of the School Council, Eco Committee and Bike it! Crew, and the children expressed their opinions on the pilot scheme and its likely impact on the environment, road safety and on encouraging more people to walk and cycle.
The Eco Team are thrilled to announce that Whitchurch Primary School has secured our sixty Platinum Green Flag Award. Our efforts during Covid were highly commended and we are now focusing on achieving our seventh Platinum Award.
Eco Committee 2019-2020
A huge thank you to everyone who donated to Our Harvest Appeal in aid of Cardiff Foodbank. The Eco Committee collected and sorted 334.7kg of food - enough to feed 29 people in crisis for 3 days each. Diolch yn fawr!
Eco Committee 2018-2019
ECO club started a new project! 🌿🌱 We collaborated like Catrin and made cheerio bird feeders 😋 We then decided together the best place to hang our new bird boxes 🦅 🐦 We are hoping to attract more birds to our beautiful conservation area this coming Spring. Dechreuodd y Clwb Eco prosiect newydd. Creuwyd bocsys adar yn y gobaith o ddenu mwy o adar i dir yr ysgol. 🌸
Ardderchog Eco Club! What brilliant Eco posters for our classrooms. Some members of Eco Club helped on a litter pick and were shocked that we filled A WHOLE black bag full of rubbish from the playground! Bu’r Clwb Eco yn frysur iawn!😲💚♻️🚫
Diolch yn fawr for your incredibly generous donations - the numbers are in..... and we filled 24 crates full of food! 😮👍🏼 Cardiff Foodbank will be collecting our donations and distributing to local families in need. 🤗💚
Our Eco Committee teamed up with Cardiff Food Bank for our Harvest week. Families kindly donated cans and packed foodstuffs. Da iawn blant am gasglu bwyd i Fanc Bwyd Caerdydd.
Ardderchog Eco Club ! We have been making sea animals from plastic waste. The animals we chose are in serious danger from the plastic filled sea in which they live.
Our Eco Committee and Miss Bodman have been busy sorting lost property to send to Africa. Da iawn!
Eco Committee 2017-2018
Members of the Eco Committee represented Whitchurch Primary School at the One Planet Workshop in County Hall.
Eco Committee 2017-2018
Our Eco Code
We've been awarded the Platinum Eco-schools award for the second time! Da iawn bawb!
Litter
We have been busy trying to tackle the problem of litter in our school grounds and in the community.
We bought new rubbish bins and recycling bins and we are litter picking. Our food waste is put into our compost bins and the compost is then used in our conservation area.
Say no to litter!
Eco Committee: Visit to St David's Centre
Highlights of Green Week
