Sibford School achieves eco-school status

Eco-Schools awarded Sibford School their green flag status after working on a number of initiatives.

The Eco-Schools programme encourages schools to embark on a meaningful path towards improving the environment in both the school and the local community while at the same time having a life-long positive impact on the lives of young people and their families.

To achieve the green award from Eco-Schools, Sibford School had to focus on five areas in depth and continue to monitor them over time. This saw the school reporting on their activities, both evaluating what had been done and creating an action plan for the future.

Rachel Bee, Eco Group Coordinator at Sibford explained “The Eco group has been meeting half termly for the last couple of years to try to make our school as environmentally friendly and aware as we can. We have created our ornithology group, further developed our food waste and composting. We have designed and sold reusable water bottles making a huge cost saving to both the monetary and physical cost of using plastic water bottles in school. “

Our Junior school have continued to develop the pond and forest school area as well as building a bug hotel of Hilton-esque proportions! Other initiatives at Sibford include collecting ink cartridges, batteries and crisp packets to be recycled.”

Toby Spence, Head of Sibford School added ‘I’m delighted that after a lot of hard work, we have been awarded our ‘green flag’. This has very much been a whole school project and I would like to pass on a huge ‘Well done’ to all involved.  Maintaining sustainability and climate change awareness and action is at the heart of the Sibford community.”