Eco Award for school

ROYD Nursery Infant School have been successful in achieving the Eco- Schools Green Award.

The Eco-Schools Green Flag is an internationally recognised award and celebrates excellence in environmental action and learning.

Class teacher Miss Rawding commented: “I work closely with Mrs Heatchote who has a team of children that are our ‘Eco Warriors’ who then roll out projects for the whole school to take part in. Our Eco projects help to empower the children at Royd, raises their environmental awareness, improves our school environment and it also creates financial savings for our school”.

The Green Award is the highest possible level that a school can be awarded. In order to achieve the Green Award a school must first achieve the Bronze and Silver awards, which are selfaccredited stepping-stones along the way.

Mr Sly, deputy headteacher, added: “Royd is committed to making a difference to our children’s lives. They are the future. If we are able to empower our children to lead change within their school then hopefully this will have a positive impact at home as well as in their wider community.

“I am delighted that the staff and children’s commitment to the project has been rewarded with achieving the Green Award, as they are extremely passionate about it.” Eco team leader and teaching assistant Mrs Heathcote said: “One of the projects that Royd has a huge drive on saving energy is named ‘Switch Off Fortnight’. Children monitor whether rooms that aren’t being used at playtimes and lunchtimes have things such as computer screens and lights turned off when they aren’t being used. The children really enjoy trying to catch the teachers out and telling them that they need to switch these things off. It creates quite a lot of healthy competition between the classes as they all want to win”.