Alpington Eco Team
The Alpington Eco Team is on a mission to make sure that our school community is always striving towards a sustainable future.
In recognition of the work our Eco Team do throughout the school year, we will be submitting an application for an ‘Eco Schools- Green Flag’ award. For more information, please click
Alpington Eco Team updates
Spring term 2026
Walk / scoot / cycle to school
To help reduce emissions from cars, which contribute to global warming, we are encouraging everyone to walk / scoot / cycle to school. If you live a bit further away, you can park at the Village Hall or the Wheel of Fortune pub and walk the last bit of the journey. This really helps to reduce the traffic outside school and keep us all safe. If you walk to school, even part of the way, you can collect a token for your team!
Please turn off your engine outside our school
Kingfishers class have done a great job making posters to remind us to turn off our engines when we are waiting outside school. This helps to keep the air on our playground clean and healthy and reduces the emissions from cars that cause global warming. Thank you!
PS – it is actually illegal to leave your engine running while the vehicle is stationary.
This is our sustainability plan! We have all worked together – Alpington parliament, governors and parents, to create a plan that we can all be part of.
This is a long term plan! We will not be able to achieve everything at once – there are some big goals that we are working towards. You can see the goals we are working towards this school year here. See updates below for our progress.
Click here to see our Alpington Parliament project to reduce single use plastic in school.
Eco – Team assembly 18th January 2024
Eco – Team assembly 18th January 2024
We are the Eco-Team in school and we are proud to be making a small difference!
In 2015, World leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals the whole world should aim for.
These goals will help to build a greener, fairer, better world for us all by 2030…
…and we all have a role to play in achieving them!
There are lots of ways we can all do our bit and make a difference to the school environment but 3 main things we want to focus on are:
- Reduce the amount of electricity we use
- Re-use or recycle plastic and paper
- Put our litter in a bin!
We have:
- Put posters up in the playground – to remind you to put rubbish in a bin!
- Planned a litter pick in Alpington village with Mrs. Fowler
- Moved a bin in the playground to make it more visible from the field (explain which one and why we moved it)
- Made posters for classrooms
Eco-Team have some ideas for you to do at home too:
Turn the tap off when you’re brushing your teeth to save water.
Turn lights off when rooms are empty!
Walk to school, if you can.
Remember to use your recycling bin!
Don’t leave phones and gadgets on charge overnight!
Autumn Term 2022-23
Autumn Term
Introducing the 2022-23 Eco Team!
Results of our environmental review and our whole school targets for the year
Spring Term 2023
Spring Term
The whole school took part in an eco-day themed around developing our understanding of ‘global citizenship’. In their Alpington families, the children participated in a range of activities around school which were linked to the sustainable development goals set out by the U.N.
Summer term 2023
Summer Term
We finally worked through the application for our Eco- Schools Green Flag Award and completed an end of year review which we shared with Mrs Welch. We discussed all the things we felt we had achieved this year as an a school and why it is important young people are given the chance to be active change makers!
