By Ellie and Maya, Year 10 Eco Reps 

To begin our first ever 7R’s week we held an assembly to spread awareness about food waste, the carbon footprint of your diet and some of the new initiatives we are planning as a school. This includes our new form plants scheme where people get the chance to look after their own snake plant and also brighten up the classroom. 

Throughout the week we held multiple events to encourage people to look after their new plants and follow the 7Rs. We began with a bakesale where eco-reps through the years came together to bake pieces that either used up food in your kitchen or were decorated to support the environment. We were delighted to see some wonderfully decorated cupcakes and biscuits and some delicious brownies.

On Thursday we created watering cans for our new snake plants made out of reused milk bottles. This resulted in some inspired designs from all of the year 10 forms and some new accessories for the plants.

Our final event was a green own clothes day, where students could wear either green clothes or second hand clothes. This was a very successful event where everyone was inspired to buy more secondhand clothing after speaking to everyone.

Overall, we raised enough money throughout the week to adopt an animal from WWF. We sent out a student vote and will be adopting a penguin and also donating to the WWF climate recovery fund. The fund works to restore the polar regions and the amazon rainforest, some of the areas that have been damaged the most by climate change.

Miss Lindsay, Eco Co-ordinator said, “7Rs week was a massive success with students from across the school getting involved in reducing, recycling and more! It was fantastic to see everyone enthusiastically decorating their form plant pots, creating recycled art and dressing in green to support the cause. We’re already looking forward to next year’s 7Rs week!”