We have joined together with other schools in Marlow to showcase the environmental work we are doing. Over the first 2 weeks of this half-term, schools will be having an eco-focused day. The main areas we are raising awareness for are water pollution, particularly that of the River Thames, and reducing electricity usage.

We held our Eco Day of Action on Friday, and it was a very exciting day!

The children came to school wearing something blue to represent the water and enjoyed a range of different activities, many of which used the outside learning environment. These activities included learning about water pollution, creating watercolour paintings of nature, scattering wildflower seeds in the nature corridor, making pots from clay and planting sunflower seeds. Once grown, the sunflowers will be given to community groups to raise awareness about the need to create habitats for pollinators.

All over school, we had the lights, computers, hand dryers etc switched off, and we managed to reduce the amount of electricity we normally use. During the day we used no electricity from the national grid on Friday but instead relied on our solar electricity generation. At 3pm we had used 47kWh of solar power and sent 56kWh back to the grid for other people in Marlow to use. Compared to a normal day, we used around 14kWh less electricity on the day.

Please click here to see some photos.