Class Representatives
These are our Green Team members for this academic year:
- Year 3 – Grace and Nicholas
- Year 4 – Ava-Leigh and Valentina R
- Year 5 -Keila and Valentina I
- Year 6 – Neemasusan and Manuel
Staff Lead
Miss Gedney is our Green team steering group lead. She will be working closely with our Green team throughout the year. Keep an eye out for updates in the school newsletter and on our website.
What have the Green Team been up to?
What did we achieve last year?
Last year, the Green Team were incredibly successful in promoting sustainability at school and in the local community. The Green Team held multiple second hand sales and led awareness assemblies about the importance of recycling, reducing single-use plastic consumption and sustainable journeys to and from school. The Green Team worked closely with Sustrans, a sustainable charity, on an Air Quality Monitoring project, which encouraged pupils, parents and carers to monitor the air quality of their journeys to and from school and devise new routes which would have less pollution.
During the spring and summer terms, the Green Team organised and hosted the SJSJ annual Green Week, which was an incredible success. Each class had a lesson, linked closely to curriculum topics and the Climate Action Plan pillars, created display boards to showcase their learning and took part in a fashion show, where all the outfits were made out of recycled materials! Parents and carers were invited to watch the fashion show and the turn out was incredible! The fashion show was a huge success- highlighting how exciting, creative and fun recycling can be.
The Green Team also encouraged every class to get involved with protecting and preserving biodiversity within the school groups by allocating each class a time to water the school’s plants in the morning.
Our focus for the Autumn Term
This term, the Green Team will be focusing on recycling. They will help to organise and lead a recycling assembly, explaining what recycling is, the importance of recycling and what items can be recycled. They will hold a poster competition, encouraging pupils to design recycling posters, with the winners having their posters displayed around the school.
Each week, the Green Team will support Mr Bartek by conducting audits of our recycling bins to ensure pupils and staff are recycling the correct items, and regularly emptying the recycling and food waste bins.
Towards the end of the Autumn term, we will start analysing the school’s plastic consumption and draft plans to reduce single-use plastic across the school.
