1. Eco Updates We in Holy Cross are very proud to be an Eco school. Being an Eco school means caring for the whole world environment as well as the school environment. Inside the school is kept clean and tidy. When visitors arrive they see plants and attractive displays. It is also clean and tidy outside … we put litter in the bins and look after our school grounds.

2. Eco Committee We discussed different roles and decided if we would like to undertake a specific job. We then gave a short presentation explaining why we would be good for the job the job. After listening to each person present, the Eco Committee reps then nominated who they thought would be best at the different jobs.

3. 4 Capacities In carrying our Eco activities we have become …. Effective Contributors Confident Individuals Successful Learners Responsible Citizens

4. 10 Areas We have developed a new Action Plan based on our Environmental Review. We have 2 new areas to develop this year, they are ‘Water’ and ‘Food and the Environment’ as well as the mandatory ‘litter’. Litter Health & Wellbeing School Grounds Energy Biodiversity

5. Waste Minimisation Transport Sustaining Our World Water Food and the Environment

6. Eco Logo We had an Eco Logo and Slogan competition this was won by Samihah Khursheed and Cieron Curran of P7. This is our new Eco Logo designed by by Samihah and our new slogan written by Cieron.

7. Eco slogan Recycle, Reduce, Reuse all the way, use less emissions every day. Put your plastics in the recycle bin, also recycle your paper and tins. When you leave a room, turn off the lights, and pull out all plugs when it comes to the night.

8. P7 Litter Audit Earlier this year P7s carried out a litter survey in our playground. Guess what they found? (ask for ideas of types of litter found) ……..lots of litter not in the bins, but lying all around our school grounds. The Eco committee discussed ways of reducing litter in our playground and came up with these ideas.. Eat healthy snacks such as fruit – encourage all children to take part in Tasty Tuesday, Watery Wednesday and Fruity Friday. By doing this we found less sweetie wrappers and crisp bags!

9. Litter Keep our school grounds tidy We have more litter picks. All classes take turns to pick up litter at break times, so remember to check the litter rota to see when your class are responsible for picking up litter. Together we will keep our playground clean and beautiful. Our Eco Litter Police check to see that litter is being put in bins and that litter pickers are keeping to the litter rota.