Welcome to our Eco-School page!

We have an Eco School team which comprises of two representatives elected from each class in Years 1 – 6. The team meets every 3 weeks to discuss current environmental issues and to come up with ideas to address our action plan for the upcoming year.

We are very passionate about the world around us. As a school with such wonderful surroundings, we are inspired everyday to look after our school environment and to celebrate it by encouraging others to look after the world we live in. We are responsible for embedding eco awareness in our whole school community. We have our own roles and responsibilities for ensuring our school is eco friendly. Our Eco team worked so hard last year to gain the Green Flag With Merit status for Aston Rowant School! 

The Green Flag Award means that our school is addressing the following ten elements, with a particular focus on those highlighted in bold:

Every new project undertaken at school takes environmental consequences into consideration as we try to minimize the impact on our environment.

Last academic year we focused our efforts on fundraising as a team to purchase a hot bin composter, as the amount of food waste we were generating each week was a real concern.  

We have also been busy organising regular outdoor learning, Christmas jumper swaps to recycle instead of waste and our hugely successful Go Green Day! Our efforts meant we achieved a Green Flag Award with Merit. This is what the team at the Eco Schools sent us:

"It is evident that young people in your school are aware of environmental issues and passionate about protecting our planet! Thank you for sharing your meeting minutes with the Eco-Schools’ Team. They really helped to provide an insight into your Eco-Schools’ work, and the dynamics of your pupil-led Eco-Committee! The quote provided by one of your members reflects their interest in sustainability, it’s brilliant that they have been chosen for your Eco-Committee, granting them the chance to create positive impacts in their local community and beyond. Completing the Environmental Review allowed your Eco-Committee to recognise the positive changes that your school has already made and gain an appreciation of the future impacts that they can create of ideas for creating an impactful Action Plan. Your Environmental Review is packed with comments, and this is exactly what our team enjoys seeing. It’s clear that completing it provided your Eco-Committee with plenty of ideas for creating an impactful Action Plan. You chose to work on topics that mattered to you, and this is a sensible approach that will lead to increased engagement and bigger impacts. This approach places them at the heart of your Eco-Schools work and will lead to increased engagement. We enjoyed reading about your participation in the Great Big School Clean– this sounded fantastic! It is great to see how you incorporated environmental issues into all aspects of your school activities. Your Action Plan contains a diverse range of activities aimed at creating positive behaviours, making an immediate difference to your local environment, and expanding your Eco-Schools’ initiatives into your local community. We enjoyed reading about your range of activities within your curriculum! We enjoyed seeing your den building! These examples clearly demonstrate that staff members in your school are willing to go above and beyond to include these important issues in pupil’s learning! Pass on a thank you to them from the Eco-Schools’ Team. Your Eco-Committee have used a wide variety of methods to inform their school community about their work, your assembly sounded fantastic! This shows they take pride in their achievements and are working hard to involve and educate all around them! We loved seeing your Eco-Board. It’s really visual and engaging and it’s great to see your Eco-Committee celebrated. Your greatest success is a brilliant achievement. Your Go Green Day fund raising has been a huge success with a positive impact on your pupils! It’s clearly something that pupils will be proud of and leaves a great legacy to build upon! We love your collaborative approach to creating an Eco-Code, this approach has allowed young people to take ownership and create a final code that will be treasured by everyone at your school! It was also wonderful to read you had supplemented your environmental learning with a trip to the Rowing Museum - this sounded brilliant! Thank you so much for submitting such a terrific application. We have loved reading about your journey and are incredibly impressed by all you have achieved. We have no hesitation in awarding you an Eco-Schools Green Flag with Merit, congratulations!"