Our Eco team is led by the pupils of Waunarlwydd Primary School. The team is represented by children from Year 2 to Year 6. It is designed to empower and inspire our young people to make positive environmental changes to our school and the wider community of Waunarlwydd, while building on their skills. Encouraging learners to become ethically informed global citizens.

Meet the team

What’s going on in Eco?........

Summer Term update

We won the nature and climate change grant: 4 hours of training for teaching staff, £500 worth of outdoor learning equipment and a climate control curriculum pack worth £150.

Food waste challenge. Eco shared ideas to reduce food waste in assemblies and monitored food waste, encouraging pupils to eat all their food and rewarding them with stickers.

Senedd and eco worked together to continue their monthly book swap shop.

Parents and the eco launched their first pre-loved uniform swap shop in July with lots of items being recycled.

 

Autumn Term Plans

September

All classes now deliver homework and parents' evening appointments online, saving a whole tree every year!

We have applied for the ‘bulbs for school’ grant. We have our fingers crossed waiting to hear!

New members and positions of chairperson, vice chair, secretary and press officer have been elected. Congratulations to our successful candidates.

Eco schools audit completed by all members during our meetings.

A new action plan for 2024/2025 was drawn up by the Eco committee.

The proposed new tyre incineration plant objection was written by the Eco team and shared with the whole school during an assembly in October.

October

Assembly to meet the eco team and look at our big question for the term….. Should the tyre incineration plant be allowed in Waunarlwydd?

Thanks to our parents and eco team for organising a pre-loved Swap shop – uniform, costumes and Christmas jumpers, just in time for the PTA Monsters Ball Disco.

Criw Cymraeg have launched a Shwmae day home learning task to reuse items from our recycling to make something to represent Wales.

Eco have been working hard to clear the planters and plant bulbs ready for spring.

November

Fair trade assembly.

Local authority battery collection bins and liners will be arriving and a whole school assembly to remind everyone to recycle their batteries.

December

Litter focus during eco assemblies and whole school litter pick in the local area.