HSL celebrates Eco-Schools Award (with distinction!)
HSL awarded the Eco-Schools Green Flag with Distinction!
We are delighted to announce that once again HSL has been awarded the Eco-Schools Green Flag, this time with Distinction!
Our application received the following feedback from our Eco-Schools assessor:
"It is evident that young people in your school are aware of environmental issues and passionate about protecting our planet. Thank you for sharing your meeting minutes with the Eco-Schools’ Team. They really helped to provide an insight into your Eco-Schools’ work, and the dynamics of your pupil-led Eco-Committee!
Completing the Environmental Review allowed your Eco-Committee to recognise the positive changes that your school has already made and gain an appreciation of the future impacts that they can create of ideas for creating an impactful Action Plan. Your Environmental Review is packed with comments, and this is exactly what our team enjoys seeing. It’s clear that completing it provided your Eco-Committee with plenty of ideas for creating an impactful Action Plan.
You chose to work on topics that mattered to you, and this is a sensible approach that will lead to increased engagement and bigger impacts. This approach places them at the heart of your Eco-Schools work and will lead to increased engagement. We enjoyed reading about your many actions, such as making posters to promote recycling and your tree planting! It is great to see how you incorporated environmental issues into all aspects of your school activities. Your Action Plan contains a diverse range of activities aimed at creating positive behaviours, making an immediate difference to your local environment, and expanding your Eco-Schools’ initiatives into your local community.
We enjoyed reading about your range of activities within your curriculum, such as your zipper pouches for recycling – what a fantastic creation with strong links to geography and science! These examples clearly demonstrate that staff members in your school are willing to go above and beyond to include these important issues in pupil’s learning! Pass on a thank you to them from the Eco-Schools’ Team.
Your Eco-Committee have used a wide variety of methods to inform their school community about their work, this shows they take pride in their achievements and are working hard to involve and educate all around them! We loved seeing your Eco-Board. It’s really visual and engaging and it’s great to see your Eco-Committee celebrated.
Your Eco-School Environmental Enrichment Day has been a huge success with a positive impact on your pupils! It’s clearly something that pupils will be proud of and leaves a great legacy to build upon!
We love your collaborative approach to creating an Eco-Code, this approach has allowed young people to take ownership and create a final code that will be treasured by everyone at your school!
It was also wonderful to read you had supplemented your environmental learning with a trip to Leckhampton Hill in Cheltenham to carry out essential conservation work - this sounded brilliant! It was amazing to see your Eco-Schools work recognised in your local press – this is testament to your achievements!
Thank you so much for submitting such a terrific application. We have loved reading about your journey and are incredibly impressed by all you have achieved. We have no hesitation in awarding you an Eco-Schools Green Flag with Distinction - congratulations!"
Miss Kennedy would like to thank all who contributed to our application, especially Ms Agombar and the Eco-Committee.
We look forward to achieving even more this academic year as we start work on our 2025 Green Flag application.
