A little bit about Eco Group

The Eco-Group shares its knowledge of education for sustainability and good practice with local and national schools. In Autumn 2022 students presented to the NGA conference on sustainability. The plethora of benefits linked to promoting positive sustainable initiatives within its school community and the wider community, include food growing on site, Bikability training for all (by Easter 2023 year 8-12 will all hold level 3 Bikability) active community work with homeless charities over 8 years as well as masses of well-being benefits. We work not on fear, but facts. The school works in partnership with the Lancashire Schools Sustainability Forum.

Students' participation at the conference is highly prized and applications begin after Easter, for Trashion Show participants, workshop leads, or guides. They will engage with their given group of primary school children (supporting their learning, ensuring inclusion, participation and a sense of well-being). Eco-Group feature in all learning activities on offer at the conference and have in the past delivered peer to peer workshops, but many help to set up the venue and support the Conference Facilitator run the programme which aims to ensure teachers and pupils experience a varied range of activities and ideas in just one day. This year senior students will deliver to the SLT CPD session. The Eco-Group regularly showcase some of its projects in the Marketplace, in 2022 our Geography department was featured.