Eco Awards





Children at Tudor Primary School celebrate their Award for Green Education Primary Schools. July 3, 2024
Children at the Tudor Primary School in Southall have been named as the Champion for Central and Southern England in the Primary Awards for Green Education in Schools (PAGES) 2024 https://www.primaryawards4greeneducation.org.uk/champions-2024-tudor-primary-school-southall-middlesex.
Their innovative project, "Tudor's Sustainability Superstars," not only clinched the top spot in the 'Green Researchers' category but also earned the title of best overall project from central and southern England.
Organised by the Young People's Trust for the Environment (YPTE), PAGES aims to inspire environmental excellence in primary education. This year's competition saw nearly 35,000 children take part, underscoring the growing emphasis on environmental stewardship in young learners.
Tudor Primary School's winning entry highlighted the exceptional work of their Eco Committee in spearheading environmental initiatives throughout the academic year.
Their achievements include:
Implementing 77 meat-free Mondays
Creating new wildlife habitats on school grounds
Promoting sustainable transportation with 90 days of walking, cycling, or scooting to school
Reducing the school's carbon emissions by 200kg
The Eco Committee's efforts extended beyond direct action, successfully raising awareness among peers about energy conservation and waste reduction. They also organized creative initiatives such as encouraging recycled material costumes for World Book Day and hosting an Eco Day where the entire school community wore green in solidarity with environmental causes.
YPTE's Director, Peter Littlewood, said, "Tudor Primary School's Eco Committee has demonstrated exceptional dedication to environmental stewardship. Their comprehensive approach, engaging both students and staff, has yielded impressive results. The breadth and impact of their achievements over the past year are truly remarkable."
As Regional Champions, Tudor Primary School will receive £750 for the school funds.
The announcement of UK Champions, selected from all Regional Champions, took place during a virtual Awards Ceremony. The event featured presentations from YPTE's distinguished Presidents, including Dermot O'Leary, Steve Backshall, Naomi Wilkinson, and Cel Spellman. The ceremony can be viewed on YouTube.
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Pupils at Tudor Primary School Southall awarded a prestigious Eco-Schools’ Green Flag June 2024.
This academic year, school council pupils at Tudor Primary School received international accreditation for their exceptional work in promoting sustainability and raising environmental awareness amongst their peers.
The Eco-Schools programme, established in 1994, is now implemented in over 70 countries worldwide. In 2023-24, more than 1.4 million pupils attended an Eco-School in England.
Pupils at Tudor Primary used Eco-Schools’ tried-and-trusted seven-step framework to create positive change. Initially, a pupil-led Eco-Committee was established. This committee took responsibility for spearheading their school’s environmental initiatives, with support from Miss Besely. They first conducted a thorough review of their school environment and curriculum, before developing a year-long plan of action.
Their Action Plan focussed on 3 key issues: Reduce, Repurpose & Refuse and activities included Energy Audit, Recycling & Reducing Carbon Footprint. These activities were thoughtfully selected to increase environmental awareness, bolster their school’s sustainability, and make meaningful contributions to global conservation efforts.
Speaking about their achievements, staff member Miss Besely said, “The Pupil’s dedication and effort have truly made a difference in our school community. Keep up the excellent work. All children were praised for being so articulate, confident, and clear on succeeding in the Sustainability Superstars project”
And pupil Rayaan ‘I love being part of the school council, it allows me to bring in new ideas about helping our planet and raising awareness and we have so much fun with Miss Besely.’
Eco-Schools England Manager, Adam Flint, said: ‘The Eco-Schools’ Green Flag is an international benchmark that demonstrates a commitment to fighting climate change and a high standard of sustainable practice. Students and staff who earn this award deserve recognition for their dedication toward protecting our planet. Every day, they demonstrate that each of us can contribute to making our planet a better, more sustainable, place.’
To learn more about Eco-Schools head to www.eco-schools.org.uk
I have also included examples of pupil’s work and achievements/ To see examples of the pupil’s work and achievements, visit https://www.tudorprimary.co.uk/school-council-eco-board/
School Council Sustainable Planet Mark Award January 2023
The School council reps have been very busy working hard to ensure that we are all doing our bit to lower our carbon footprint, our aim for this year is to become an eco-school.
In January 2023 the children made a pledge to show how we care for our community, care for each other, and the steps we are taking as a school to become more environmentally friendly.
Our pledge consists of the following 6 points;
Care—we show care in school, play leaders, and school council reps. We also care for the environment around us and keep our classes clean. We care for ourselves by, making good choices, eating healthily, wearing clean and dressing well when at school. We care about nature with lots of Forest school events taking place, local walks, and looking after the school plants.
Learn— through learning we evolve and create more ideas. We have created a learning journal for our sustainable project. Here you can see what the school council has done so far and what we have learned about the world, this has been done through geography lessons, sugar smart, farming, healthy choices in PHSE, and healthy eating.
Reduce—We have stopped plastic water bottles from being brought into school. We have asked all staff and pupils to only bring in reusable water bottles to school, this is more cost-effective but also helps us reduce plastic waste. The school council children have been doing a tally chart on a weekly basis and recording this on our eco journal to see which class is doing their part and keeping waste to a minimum.
Recycle—there are now recycle bins in each classroom for paper waste, do you know that Nursery are always looking for scrap paper so why not share resources that we don’t want anymore. Or we can take scrap paper home it will encourage us to write, draw or get creative at home.
Eat—Tudor Primary school is now a Meat Free Monday school. our Monday dinner menu consists of vegan and new vegetarian dishes. Having at least one plant-based day a week is a fun and easy way to do something good for the planet and our future. Meat Free Monday is a great initiative to encourage pupils and staff to have a healthier diet, save animals and the planet and at least once a week.
Travel—the JTA’s have been working on reducing the carbon footprint around the area of the school, Tudor road will now be monitored by a camera, and it will not let any vehicles drive down the road from 8.30am and 3.pm, this will help reduce daily school rush, make it safe for us to come to school and the air quality. We have had air quality lessons and lessons on being more active
At the end of the first Spring Term the school council became a member of Planet Mark. Planet Mark is a sustainability certification that verifies and measures carbon and social data to reduce emissions around our school and this helps us to do our part in saving the planet. At Tudor, we are starting off small by implementing a 'switch off' campaign. We are encouraging all staff and pupils to switch off any appliances and lights when a classroom is not in use. We then sent our school energy bills from last year to Planet Mark, and we are happy to announce that we are now a Planet Mark-certified organisation. Tudors Primary School’s total carbon footprint was 108.4 tCO₂e and the relative carbon footprint was 0.2 tCO₂e per pupil and staff.