Devonshire house received the full Eco Schools status and Green Flag award at the end of the summer term 2014!
This is the criteria the school met to achieve this:
Green Flag award criteria
- The school has an Eco-Committee that meets at least once every half term
- Pupils take significant responsibility for running the committee
- The Eco-Committee includes a parent representative
- The Eco-Committee has completed an Environmental Review covering the Eco-Schools nine topics and green procurement policy topics
- The results have been recorded
- Pupils were involved in carrying out the review
- Results of the review have been discussed by the Eco-Committee and communicated with the whole school
- The Eco-Committee has produced a detailed Action Plan
- The plan contains timescales, who is responsible and how eco work will be monitored and evaluated
- The plan contains development of any policies made that cover the nine topics, this should include a Green Procurement policy.
- The Eco-Committee has shared the Action Plan with the rest of the school
- Sustainability has been covered in at least three curriculum areas by most year groups
Involving the whole school and wider community
- The school has a prominent, designated notice board, detailing Eco-Schools activities
- The Eco-Committee regularly communicates Eco-Schools activities to the whole school and wider community (eg. via assemblies and newsletters)
- The school has shared good practice with other schools who wish to join the Eco-Schools programme or who are already engaged in the programme
- The school shares good practice and supports others within their Eco-Community (eg. local Eco-Centres and homes)
- Physical evidence has been collected of the school’s progress including data collection and analysis (graphs etc)
- Some monitoring data has been used in curriculum work
- The school has an agreed, adopted and displayed Eco-Code
- The Eco-Code is displayed on the Eco-Schools notice board and in all classrooms
- The Eco-Code is known and understood by the majority of pupils and staff
- The school for the first application has completed in-depth work on at least three of the Eco-Schools nine topics, these were Energy, Waste and School Grounds.
