Flying the flag for the environment
Date published: 17 July 2009
Celebrating their eco-success are pupils (back, from the left) Matthew Lait, Jake Stell, Daniel Jones, Jodie Brierley, (front, from the left) Derry Lewis, Sally Bradley, Connie Rigby and Beth Collins.
CHILDREN at Delph Primary School are spreading the message of how to save the environment after being awarded a green flag.
The school had to tackle eight eco-school topics to earn the Eco-Schools Green Flag, including waste minimisation, litter, recycling, biodiversity and looking after the school grounds.
Eco-school co-ordinator Sue Ward said: “We’ve done lots of little projects to show we are caring for the school environment.
“We are absolutely delighted to have achieved the award. The children are so enthusiastic about the whole thing and are taking the message home to parents so it’s changing their daily life at home as well.”
Green grass-roots
CARING for the environment and conservation is a big issue for Oldham’s schoolchildren.
And youngsters from more than 20 primary and secondary schools joined together in a celebration of their achievements.
The event, hosted by Crompton House, was to reward schools for their efforts. Crompton House was the first school in Oldham to be an accredited Fairtrade school — pledging support to developing countries by giving them a fair price for their products.
Judith Haughton, from the Fairtrade in Oldham action group, said it was a wonderful day and commended local conservation charity Groundwork, which she said did most of the work to organise it.
Tamsin Morris, Groundwork education officer, said more schools in Oldham than ever before had gained the top eco Green Flag award.
It is now held by five schools, four of which earned it for the first time, with veterans Thorp Primary School, celebrating 10 years as a Green Flag school with its fifth award.
Tamsin highlighted Streetscene’s involvement, by funding the eco-schools awards, and said the day was a big success thanks to the involvement of schools which together helped make Oldham “one of the best eco-school areas in the country.”
Youngsters on the day took part in competitions and a quiz, received eco-goody bags and designed T-shirts, with the winning design from each school being printed.
