At Monkhouse Primary School, we encourage all children to be active members of the wider global society. We provide our children with opportunities to learn about the world they live in and see the impact of humans actions on the world in both a positive and negative way. Through our curriculum design and projects, we hope to encourage the children to strive for change to make our school more sustainable and environmentally friendly, which in turn will help to make the world a better place.

Our Eco Warriors 2024-2025:

Eco Lead - Miss Ritson

Year 1 - Reggie & Isaac

Year 2 - Freddie & Poppy

Year 3 - Alex & Hayden 

Year 4 - Sophie & Harper

Year 5 - Molly & Mitchell

Year 6 - Rebecca & Oliver 
 

At Monkhouse, we now follow the Climate friendly schools programme which is pupil-led, encouraging hands-on learning that brings the whole school and the wider community together on exciting environmental projects. The aim is to raise awareness and improve the school environment.

In Summer 2024, we achieved the Green Flag award and have been successful in maintaining Eco School status for a number of years.

2024-25 Eco Projects

This year, we are working with our Climate friendly schools mentor to follow our own 10 action plan to become a climate friendly school. Our 10 actions are:

ACTION 1: We will investigate grants to expand our community garden space.

ACTION 2:  Solar panels for school to reduce electricity costs.

ACTION 3: IT Monitors will be assigned to each classroom to ensure electronics and lights are turned off when they need to be i.e over breaks and at the end of the day.

ACTION 4: We will plant more trees in our school grounds.

ACTION 5: Reduce the amount of adults smoking and vaping at the school gates and reduce litter

ACTION 6: Reduce the amount of water used in school.

ACTION 7: We will investigate grants to use water buts 

ACTION 8: increase awareness around water use

ACTION 9: Increase number of children walking to school

ACTION 10: We will undertake a recycling campaign in school. This will involve recycling items such as paper, plastic, clothes, batteries etc.

How it works:

The Climate friendly schools programme empowers children to drive change and improve their environmental awareness. Each year, children in Years 1 - 6 are given the opportunity to become members of the Eco Warriors. Every year, the children create a poster or keynote sharing why they think they would make good eco warriors. Their class vote on whose poster/keynote persuades them. They conduct an environmental review of the school looking at Eco areas such as; Biodiversity, Energy, Healthy Living and many more. They then form an action plan of areas that can be improved and ways to create change. The Eco Team meet to work on the action plan as well as; holding assemblies to inform the school on environmental issues or actions they are taking, creating posters to display around school or making changes to how the school operates to be more eco friendly.