Welcome to the Eco Committee Page 

Eco Warriors 2024-25

What are we about?

Biodiversity - maintaining a high level of plant, insect and animal life locally and globally.

Energy - reducing energy use and investigating greener energy sources. 

Global Citizenship - taking an active role in your community and making our planet more peaceful, sustainable and fair. 

Healthy Living - addressing your, and our planet's health. 

Litter - reducing litter, which harms wildlife and costs millions to clear every year.

Marine - protecting and conserving water-based ecosystems. 

School Grounds - improving School Grounds for pupils, staff, plants, insects and animals.

Transport - promoting and encouraging sustainable transport.

Waste - refusing, reducing, reusing, repairing, recycling. 

Water - valuing and preserving our most important natural resource. 

Gardening Club

20th September 2024

We are really happy to welcome the children back into the school allotment for gardening club this week. We met for a “Gather & Grow” meeting, where the children decided on and wrote out their allotment rules.

We then got on with some all important planting. Tulips have gone into the pollinator bath tub, and Alchemilla along with ferns around the log seat area. We harvested some courgettes and dead headed the cosmos. There are lots of jobs to do this term and we have plenty of jobs for inside the polytunnel on rainy days.

Each child has their own container to keep their tools in, which they have decorated and named. Tools include a spade, trowel, watering can and (safe) scissors. 

We will be applying for our RHS level 2 award. Level 2 focuses on pupil wellbeing. Please take a look at details on the RHS website here. We need to submit 100 words detailing how we all contribute to our gardening, learn new skills and support wellbeing. If any children would like to contribute a few sentences to the application, we’d love to receive them. 

As the weather gets cold and wet, please make sure gardening club pupils have the appropriate clothing the keep them warm and dry outside.

Mrs Patel and Mrs Drewitt

2023-2024

Our Holy Trinity Garden 

To the Eco Committee 🌱😊

I am very pleased to tell you that you are the winners of our Best Veg Garden 2023 competition, congratulations!

We think you have done brilliantly with your growing since September and it looks like you are learning loads about no dig 🌱.

We will organise sending your prize of £100 to the grown-ups and I’m sure that they will help you decide what to spend it on to make your gardening even better!

Big smiles from Anna and the team at Homeacres 😀🌱

PS You can see your entry on the No Dig Day page of our website: https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/no-dig-day 

These are our no dig beds. We have been sowing more peas (and trying out the tasty pea shoots already!), snowball cauliflower and winter density lettuce this week.  We have also planted onions and garlic.