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Coningsby St Michael's Church of England Primary School
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Eco-Warriors
Eco-Warriors
Academic Year 2022-2023 Eco-Warriors
An Eco-Warrior is an individual who cares about our environment and the diversity of life forms that share it. Being an Eco-Warrior is to simply care for our environment in our daily activities and decision making.
Our team of school Eco-Warriors will be working with Mrs Gates to develop our Mystical Garden, Forest Schools program, and help our school to look after the environment. We are very excited to be working towards the Gold Woodlands trust green tree award. Last
Look for updates on this page!
Meet our new Eco Council members.
This year our Eco council members will continue working on our community garden helping harvesting planting and preparing the beds for winter. There first job will be to collect the results form our sunflower competition and announce the winner.
Sunflower 2023 competition winner
Eco council met recently to collect all our sunflower entries. We are excited to announce that we had two clear winners -both receiving a £10 Amazon gift voucher. Huge congratulations to our two winners (one staff and one a pupil) you both did a fantastic job growing two super tall sunflowers.
Well done!
keep your eyes peeled for next years sunflower competition, launching March/April 2024
Our previous Eco council.
Our eco council worked super hard last year organising, planning, tidying and starting our school community garden.
Meet our Eco Warriors for 2022/2023
Our first harvest
We are so excited! We finally have our first produce from our community garden. We have harvested potatoes and radishes. Children in Deer and Badger have taken little pots home to either share with their families, friends or neighbours. We can’t wait for our next items to be ready.
Monday 12th June 2023
Work is coming on nicely in our Mystical garden community garden. We have planted lots of fruits and vegetables and introduced some new chickens. We have even had our first egg laid today! Well done Marigold.
Wednesday 1st March 2023
Eco council met today to continue work on our community vegetable garden. We spent this morning thinning out our tomato seeds and transplanting them over to their own pots. Fingers crossed that we will have some different varieties of tomatoes to harvest late summer.
Wednesday 8th February 2023
Eco council would like to say a huge thank you to the lovely people from our local community and beyond who have donated: tools, seeds, grow tunnels, seed trays, mini greenhouses, plant pots and vegetable beds to help get our community flower and vegetable garden started. We are so grateful and look forward to using them over the next few weeks and for future gardening projects. THANK YOU!
Thursday 26th and Thursday 2nd January
Eco council met today to start preparations for the school community garden that they want to set up in the mystical garden. The children spent this morning clearing the vegetable beds and adding the new ones that were kindly donated by Mr and Mrs Beck - thank you so much! We think they look great! The children can not wait to start planning what they will grow in them. Keep an eye out on the school playgrounds over spring and summer where we hope to be able to pass on lots of lovely fresh produce. We also registered with the RHS campaign for school gardening challenge and with all the hard work the children have put in we have already achieved level one. Well done Eco council!
Wednesday 23rd November
Eco council met today for a planning session. We worked in teams working on fundraising ideas and a project to open a school community vegetable garden. Both teams came up with some AMAZING ideas! We can’t wait to get started. Watch this space for exciting updates.
Wednesday 28th September.
Eco warriors met today to have a tidy up on the KS2 playground. They worked really hard and the playground now looks beautiful. Next challenge is to get some posters made to put up around school to remind us all to use the bins for our rubbish.
Past Events
We worked hard during our last academic year. Here are some of the things we got up to.
The woodland trust green school award.
13th July 2022
super proud of our eco council for achieving the woodland trust silver award.
Woodland Trust Tree planting
The Queens Green Canopy for the Plaitum Jubilee.
4th May 2022
Eco council have joined with school council to plant a small jubilee garden within the mystical garden. We used our free trees donated from the woodland trust to create what we think will be a wonderful space.
Eco council meeting Monday 7th March
Eco council were keen to introduce more colour and trees into the Mystical Garden. At todays meeting eco council planted some seeds to do exatly this, in the form of bright orange Marigolds. They cant wait to see them bloom.
Recycling in our school.
Eco meeting 24th January
Eco council are excited to be working towards making our school more eco friendly. We have joined the kids against plastic challenge and are hoping to inspire everyone at school to recycle their plastic so we can be a clever plastic school.
our first challenge is to reduce the amount of milk bottles that we have in school and make sure that they go in recycling bins and not our general watse. In our first week we were able to recycle over half of the schools palstic bottles. We were so proud of our efforts.
Update 7.03.2022
Forest school have been inspired to go single use plastic free by our eco council members. We have started to use items that can be washed after use. Thank you to the "Big Red Kitchen" for supplying us some old plates and cups.
Woodland trust Green Tree awards
1st-8th December 2021 National Tree Decorating week.
We have really enjoyed making decorations and decorating our trees in the Mystical Garden
Our school awards
Past events
Bell's Pumpkin competition - October
We entered our monster pumpkin that we grew in the Mystical Garden into the Bell's competition this October. It did very well against tough competition, and managed to come 2nd and weighed an impressive 40.8kg!
Woodland Trust tree donation
The Woodland Trust kindly donated us over eight different varieties of trees to plant in our school grounds. Together with our site manager Mrs Beeson, the eco-council we managed to plant them all on the field and in the Mystical Garden, and we look forward to seeing how they grow.
