Eco- Council

This year heralded a new committee, who work as a team to think about how we can be more environmentally friendly at Meersbrook Bank. 

Year 2
Felix & Izan

Year 3
Shoshana & Elka 

Year 4
​Erin & Noah

Year 5
Reggie & Grace

Year 6
Sophie & Fred

Current Projects:

- Litter
- Awareness of plastic pollution in oceans
- Biodiversity
​- Saving water

Read about the imapct that our school has had, collectively in the UK to make a difference to our planet.

Click the link below for our:

Eco-School Action Plan

Click the link below for our:

Eco-Code

Click the link below for our:

Climate Action Plan

Our Eco-Updates

More Growing!

We have teamed up with the Sheffield Foodworks Nursery (the plant kind of nursery!) who have provided us with young veggies to plant. Mr Redman has been up to his old tricks again, converting an old cabinet into a wheelie veg bed.

Our herb wall is doing well this year and our vegetables are very tasty.

Wildflower Wall

We have upcycled these old tyres by lining them with old un-named school uniform, filling with last year's leaf mould and compost and sprinkling wildflower seeds. we just need to keep them watered (and covered with netting to stop the pesky birds from pinching the seeds) while we wait for the magic to happen.

Big School Spring Clean

The Eco-Council very bravely spoke to all of the children in Key Stage assemblies to explain why litter is such a big problem. They also explained how to safely carry out a litter pick and challenged every family to do a litter pick over the Easter holidays.

Here are some photos of our children carrying out a litter pick at school and in our local park.

​Litter heroes!

Don't forget to check out the Keep Britain Tidy website.

Bringing old planters back to life

We put on our oldest clothes and gave these old planters a lick of paint. They will go into the Foundation Unit, filled with herbs ready to be harvested when the children play in their mud kitchen.

Conference Article

This year's delegates really enjoyed the annual Climate change conference. They wrote an article to share with the South Yorkshire Climate Education team.

Growing Area

Last year we established an environmetally and wildlife friendly outdoor classroom. This year we developed this by upcycling some old filing cabinets into vegetable planters. We have planted and cultivated a little vegetable garden, including garlic, onions, curgettes, tomotoes, potatoes, runner beans and strawberries.
​We can't wait to harvest them!

Eco-Sculpture

As part of our work in finding out about the plight of marine life due to plastic pollution, the eco-council decided to create a whole school sculpture made only from plastic waste.  One leg was made by each class.  Among the media used, you can see bubble wrap, pool noodles, plastic packaging and bottle tops. We think he's rather charming!

​Outdoor Classroom

The Eco-Council are super -proud of the new outdoor classroom. There are now climbing plants; a sensory garden; a wildflower meadow (admittedly in it's very early days!); and a wildlife attracting flowerbed.

Year 4 have built some amazing bug hotels on a grand scale and we now have a cosy home ready for a local hedgehog.  there are some new bird boxes around the area too.

This week, we have installed 2 new recycled plastic benches which have been donated via a grant from the Co-op. Thanks to FMBS for sorting this out.

We are not done yet. We also plan to install a water feature and a herb wall.  When the builders have left we will also develop the other side of the area too.

Eco Day

The whole school held an eco-day. Every class learned about different creatures such as birds, bees, butterflies, beetles and so on.
Year 1 learned about wild flowers and even planted a mini-meadow in our new outdoor classroom. Year 2 learned about trees too.

​Year 4 made some really impressive bug habitats and all the children in school planted something.

New Library Books

We have gathered and bought lots of books which will make up a new section in our library.  The best thing is that they are all second-hand too so we're doing our bit for the environment too.

South Yorkshire Schools Climate Conference

The Year 5 and 6 Eco-Councillors attended the South Yorkshire Schools Climate Conference with Mrs Harvey. We travelled by bus to be environmentally friendly!
The mayor of South Yorkshire was there (Oliver Coppard) and lots of other speakers who were really knowledgeable about the environment.  We attended some workshops with the South Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and also one run by Threads, an organisation that mends, upcycles and swaps clothes. The conference made us think hard about how we can make a difference - in all it was an inspirational day.

By the way, did we mention that we won the competition for our eco-game? (See top of this page)