ECO-SCHOOL

The Eco-Committee is the student-led action group and the driving force behind the Eco-Schools process for the whole school.

• Our team is made of students, teachers, non-teaching staff and parents 

• The student members of the Eco Committee meets weekly to plan, monitor and evaluate the activities from the Action Plan. The full eco-committee meets once a term.

Carrying out an Environmental Audit helps the school identify its current strengths and weaknesses in sustainability. The data for the audit was collected by primary eco club, CAS students in secondary and the eco-committee.

• We last environmental audit was carried out in November 2024. We focused on assessing outdoor areas at school and their suitability for teaching and learning and outdoor teaching and learning at BIS..

The Action Plan is developed based on the results of our Environmental Audit. We have identified the areas we want to focus on, a SMART target and then discussed the activities that should help us to achieve the target.

We monitor our progress in achieving our target regularly and we inform the school community about the progress. Evaluating the success of our activities helps us make changes required in our Action Plan.

We are aware that linking Eco-Schools activities to the curriculum ensures targeting the whole school community. We are working with teachers across the school to link the curriculum to real-life settings outside classroom ideally in the real environment. We are working on increasing outdoor teaching and learning.

Knowledge should be followed by action. We are using creative ways of getting everyone from the school community on board! Our hope is to increase our impact within a local community too.

The Eco-Code summarises what the school’s commitment to sustainability is.