Eco Schools

 

About The Eco Council

Here are the Eco Councillors for 2025\2026

The children elect 12 of their peers as representatives for the Eco Council, which meets regularly as an action group.   

The Eco-Schools framework supports schools to work on their choice of nine different environmental and sustainable topics:

1. Transport

2. Waste

3. Water

4. Litter

5. School Grounds

6. Healthy Living

7. Energy

8. Biodiversity

9. Global Perspective

The Eco Councillors put a lot of work into keeping the school grounds looking good, while providing different habitats for wildlife. In the past, we have built minibeast hotels and hedgehog houses, weeded planters, cleared the pond area, planted soft fruit and made wild flower beds for the insects. 

With the help of the Eco Council, children at Manor Road have been taking part in activities for the Green Tree Schools Award, run by the Woodland Trust and have achieved Gold status.

We have been very grateful to receive donations of bulbs, fruit trees and hedgerow whips, which we have planted around the school grounds.

In the summer term 2024, Manor Road held its first Farmers’ Market, selling plants and produce that each class had grown or made.  Last year’s market was an even bigger success, with generous donations of plants and produce from our school community adding to our own. With donations from the PTFA, we are now able to redevelop our allotment area.

This year, our focus is to set up the allotment planters to create a space where produce can be grown for Cookery Club as well as for class projects and the Farmers’ Market and produce stall.

For further information about the Eco-Schools programme, visit their website on www.eco-schools.org.uk