Eco Page and School Garden

Thinking about and looking after our school's environment is an important part of the work we do at Mosborough and since moving to our new site we have undertaken numerous projects that have led to improvements.

Over a three years ago we set out to become an ECO school and have established an Eco Committee whose job is to think about ways of improving our environment and making the best use of our natural resources.

 

'Pupils' spiritual, moral and social development is outstanding.' - OFSTED 2009

Over the last seven years we have:
Planted over 3000 trees and shrubs in the local community, developed our own wildlife garden complete with composting facilities, planted over 1000 wildflowers, collected paper from each class for recycling, set up a bird box complete with internal camera to view birds nesting, looked after some Highland cattle in a field next to the school and worked with local environmental and conservation groups.

In May 2006 we were one of the first primary schools in Sheffield to get an Eco Schools Green Flag Award.

Our school garden continues to grow and develop. This picture shows our new potting shed where we re-pot small plants that we have grown from seed.

This year we have planted a lot more vegetables and bedding plants in the garden.

Our current projects involve:

*Linking with Onyx to provide paper recycling bins for all the classes in school.

*Creating vegetable beds in the school garden.

*Installing another bird box with a colour camera to observe more birds nesting.

**To find out more about ECO SCHOOLS go to our Links page and click on the link to the ECO SCHOOLS website.**

 

Click here to see more of our ECO work.