We’ve won an award!
Congratulations to Miss O’Donnell and our Laudato Si teams for all of the hard work they have put in over the years to improve the awareness in our classrooms, school community and beyond as to how we should look after our planet better. This has now resulted in our school being awarded the Green Flag Eco Schools award!
Our Laudato Si Gallery: What we’ve been up to:
Over the past few years, our Laudato Si team have been instrumental in transforming our school community in to how we look after our classrooms, school environment and the local community. The gallery below shows some of the many activities we have been invovled with, including:
- Visiting the Laudato Si centre;
- Visiting the Recycling Centre;
- Working with Rochdale Council to improve the local area in various community clean ups;
- A pupil winning an award to create an eco design for one of their fleet of vans;
- Planting trees and creating plans for our Forest Schools area;
- Planting our beautiful planters and bench planters around school;
- Supporting the Gardening Club;
- Welcoming Bishop John Arnold to bless our Forest Schools area;
- Welcoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham to our school and sharing the great work done to make our world a better place.
A message from our Laudato Si team.
As individuals, we can take important steps to answer Pope Francis’ call by examining our lifestyles, reducing our consumption, and being conscious of our choices. Here are St Mary’s our dedicated green team are committed to reducing the amount of litter in the school grounds and carry out weekly litter picks every Friday. They are also well tuned in to raising awareness of how to use energy efficiently. Watch their latest video which has been watched by all classes in the aim to reduce our energy usage every day.
What you can do to help
- Think before you flick the light switch! Do you need the light on in daylight hours? Remember to turn the lights switch off when you leave a room empty.
- Reduce the length of time you spend in the shower. The longer the hot shower, the more water and gas are used to heat the water.
- Turn off your televisions and video games and pick up a book!
- Before you switch on the dryer see if you can hang wet or damp clothes on a maiden or on the back of a chair.
- For people who love to watch television or use their iPads and computers, create a checklist of what should be turned off each time they leave their room. Think of lights, computer, and wall switch.