The Gilberd School is currently working towards being an Eco-School. This means that we are coming up with ways to be more environmentally conscious. Over the last academic year we achieved our Bronze Award by highlighting some of the key issues we think the GIlberd school needs to address. This year we have started looking at the Silver award and what we need to do.
Last year we:
- Started a Gilberd School Environment Council where all year groups were included and this has continued this year.
- WIth the help of Mr Pollock, we also put in a paper recycling program throughout the whole school.
- We started to look at other ways we could be more Eco-Friendly and came up with problem areas such as transport and litter which we thought needed to be priorities.
This year we:
- This year the Eco-Council started to make links with the School Council to push some of our ideas further and discussed some of the key Environmental issues within the school.
- Researched other areas which we think need looking at such as widening the recycling program and coming up with strategies to reduce the litter problem which we have taken to the School Council.
- Come up with strategies to tackle other issues such as water consumption and eco-friendly transport.
Mr Pollock has also been putting in energy saving devices around the school such as classroom and toilet light sensors, which turn the lights off automatically if there is no movement after 10 minutes. He has also ensured the computers all shut down at the end of the day so that no energy is wasted.
To get our Silver Award we are going to need to do more though. We need your help! We need everyone at the Gilberd to contribute to making our environment a better place. Look out for further info over the coming weeks!
You can find out more about what it takes to become an Eco-School by logging onto:
http://www.eco-schools.org.uk/
