ECO squad blog!

January 2025

Today we held our first ECO squad meeting at Wray Park. We have 12 enthusiastic children from both sites who are going to be working on our Plastic Free Schools award.

The children were all very excited to attend our first meeting to form a Plastic Free School action group and to receive their very own Brooklands Eco Squad caps (which they wore with pride) and were very excited to get started on our ECO project. 

The children got started straight away to colour and decorate posters for a 'Trash Mob' and display them around the school for our litter pick next week. The children have also announced our campaign in assembly which we are all very excited about.

February 2025

The children were very excited to hold the first trash mob which was a huge success. Both sites completed their own trash mob with children from all the classes joining in to clear up any rubbish around the school. The children were amazing with sorting the rubbish and broken toys into the correct recycling bin. 

Let everyone hear our voice!!!

Today in our ECO group we talked about how our voice can be heard. We talked about how our MP has been selected to represent us and our community. We then researched who our local MP is and wrote her a letter asking her to help us with tackling some of our concerns regarding plastic. We will let you know if we get a response.

Challenging the industries!!!!

After our litter pick we identified lots of plastic pollution and the children recognised that there were certain products that we kept seeing especially crisp packets and chocolate bar wrappers. We identified the three main offenders that litter our school grounds which we took photographs of. Our next job is to to write a letter to these manufacturers to ask them what they are doing about sustainability.