Colvend Primary receives eighth Eco Schools Green Flag award for environmental work
Colvend Primary School has received its 8th Eco Schools Green Flag award, recognising the school's long-term dedication to environmental education and sustainability.
The school has demonstrated a comprehensive, integrated, and continuing commitment to environmental issues through its ongoing work within the school and local community.
Head teacher, Aleksandra Stores, said: 'Our small rural school enables every pupil to actively participate in the eco committee, fostering a strong sense of environmental responsibility across the school and the wider community.'
The school's P6 eco representative added: 'By carrying out an environmental review we created an action plan and decided how we would measure each action's impact and then linked them to our curriculum.'
The school involves every pupil as well as the local community. Pupils reported that attending Colvend allows them to access the outdoors and being outside is great for learning and good for their wellbeing and staying healthy.
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The action plan included pupils accessing learning sessions in The Climate Ready Classroom, class and beach visits with the Crichton Carbon Centre as well as a visit and tour at Bainloch Deer Park.
Mrs Stores added: 'We are very lucky to have so many stakeholders who invest their time and effort into supporting Colvend Primary, allowing the pupils to have such rich learning experiences and address important climatic issues.
'The pupils' actions really do have an impact.'
As Eco Schools is a pupil led programme each topic was chosen by the eco committee. Pupils chose: health and wellbeing, biodiversity and climate action which also included litter picks at Kippford and in the school grounds and community recreation field.
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