Our Eco Committee 2024/25

Unit 1 - William, Celine 

Unit 2 - Ella, Poppy, Harry

Unit 3 - Florence, Charlie, Ashleigh

Our Eco Committee is a team of passionate students who care about making our school a cleaner, greener place. We meet regularly to plan practical ways to help the environment, like saving energy by reminding everyone to switch off lights and computers when they're not in use. One of our main goals is to get the whole school involved, so we lead assemblies to share tips, raise awareness, and celebrate the positive changes we're making together.

We also take action around school by doing litter picks and using different initiatives to help keep our grounds clean and looking great. We know how lucky we are to live in Dawlish, surrounded by beautiful countryside and coastline, so we want to do our bit to look after it. Whether it’s encouraging recycling or helping everyone make more eco-friendly choices, we're proud to be making a difference. Being part of the Eco Committee is a great way to learn, lead, and help protect our local environment.

Eco 23/24

This school year we have a new group of ECO members who are excited for the challenge of keeping our school as ECO friendly as possible. Currently, our ECO members patrol the school most lunchtimes, ensuring all lights are switched off, the bins are being used properly and keeping an eye on our pen recycling. 

In the warmer months we make use of our outdoor spaces, learn more about sustainability and keep our school grounds and surrounding areas clean and tidy. 

In exciting news, Gatehouse Primary Academy has been awarded as a 'Friend of The Honey Bee' from the British Beekeepers Association. We look forward to working with the British Beekeepers Association to give our pupils a detailed understanding of the importance of Honey Bees in our ECO-system. 

What a load of rubbish!
 

One February,  the Eco Group took part in a beach clean at Beach Cove and Coryton Cove. We were met by Vanessa Riley from Dawlish Against Plastic who assisted us. We found old cans, bottle caps, fishermen nets and lots more. We compared which beach had the most rubbish and were surprised by the amount of rubbish found in such a short period of time. We found it quite tricky to leave the beach as we kept trying to find more rubbish but we are hoping to do another beach clean in the future.

After, we presented an assembly to our school to show everyone the rubbish removed from the beach. We had a great afternoon and we know there is a little less rubbish in the sea due to our help. We would like to thank the parent helpers for their fantastic support on our beach clean.

Eco Schools Bronze award
 

We are delighted to share our fantastic news that we have now earned our Eco Schools bronze award. To earn this award, our school had to meet the criteria set by Eco Schools which included setting up an Eco Committee, undertaking an environmental review and producing an action plan following on from the environmental review.
 

Our school has taken part in initiatives such as Waste Week, Switch off Fortnight and applying for a grant to enable us to compost our fruit and vegetable waste. The children have also been learning about looking after our precious plant throughout their lesson which has included writing to the Prime Minister to ban single use plastic.
 

We are really proud of our achievement and now looking forward to earning our Silver Award, and finally the Green Award. Well done to everyone at our school!