Eco Council

At St Dennis Primary Academy, the community and environment are important to us and are therefore key drivers of our curriculum. 

We have set up an Eco Council made up of children who are keen to look after the school environment and the planet.  

Eco Council meet every week with Mrs Bateson and focus on a project based on one of the following topics:

Biodiversity – Caring for all plants, animals and insects.

Energy – Reducing energy use and investigating greener energy sources.

Global Citizenship – Working with others on local and global issues.

Healthy Living – improving mental and physical well-being.

Litter – Reducing the amount of litter in your local area.

Marine – Protecting all rivers, canals, lakes and oceans.

School Grounds – Enhancing where you work and play.

Transport – Finding more environmentally-friendly ways to travel.

Waste – Refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle.

Water – Protecting an important natural resource.

Eco Council have their own display board where they have their photos so everyone knows who they are, share the current project they are working on and the minutes from their weekly meetings. They also have a space for suggestions from other children.

Our Eco Council encourage their classmates to follow the St Dennis Eco Code that they created.

Click here to find out more about eco-schools www.eco-schools.org.uk

All our great work can also be found in the Geography section of this website!

Eco Council have been instrumental in saving energy across the school and applying for grants to save water. Their work and dedication has resulted in the school achieving the Eco Schools Bronze and Silver Awards. Schools . In summer 2022 we achieved the Green Flag award.  We were so proud as Eco club worked incredibly hard towards this goal. Again, in summer 2023 Eco council worked hard to achieve the green flag award. 

The Eco Council recently discussed their priorities for what they believe should be discussed at the G7 Summit and were interviewed and filmed by BBC Radio Cornwall sharing their ideas for the world’s leaders to listen to.  

Click here to view the interviews https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=541063290663750.

G7 Summit - 'Our Voice, Our Future'.

We were very privileged to be involved in the live streaming of the Cornwall Music Hub's 'Our voice, our future’ project, along with other schools in Cornwall. Our thanks go to Matt Douglas for putting the video together for us along with the backing track. The artwork and lyrics were all produced by the children of Year 5 and we are very proud of them all!

Follow the link below to our Video Resource Centre where you can see the perfomance and accompanying artwork in full.

This academic year Eco Club are working on keeping the green flag. We have changed two of one of our topics to litter but have kept marine and school grounds. It is going to be an exciting and busy year.

Eco club were honoured to be invited to help plant trees in the cemetery. The Women's Institute were planting a tree to celebrate their 100^th year and another tree was planted in recognition of plant a tree week.