Hope Achieves Eco-Schools Silver Award

Congratulations to all the students, staff, governors, parents and especially the Eco-Committee for all your hard work this year. You have helped the Academy achieve the Eco-Schools Silver Award.

In order to achieve the award Hope Academy needed to meet a range of criteria:

1) Establish an Eco-Committee, comprising of pupils, teachers and parents that meets at least once every half term.
2) Conduct an Environmental Review. The Eco-Committee has completed an Environmental Review covering the Eco-Schools nine topics.

3) Create an Action Plan. The plan contains timescales, targets and who is responsible.

4) Link sustainability to the Curriculum. Faculties have mapped how they deliver sustainability in each subject.

5) Involving the Whole School and Wider Community. The Eco-Committee have worked with the Newton Partners Community Group and Newton & Earlestown Community Group, as well as involving the whole school in campaigns such as the Big Tidy Up, Switch-off fortnight and the Big Switch Off. These have been communicated via our blog, Eco-board and the Hope Herald.

6) Monitor and evaluate the sustainable campaigns we've adopted. The Eco-Committee monitors the effectiveness of the Academy (e.g. via data collection, before and after photographs, etc)

7) Establish an Eco-Code. The Academy has agreed, adopted and displayed the Eco-Code throughout the Academy.

8) Delivered Project Work during breakout days, such as Healthy Living apps in ICT and by creating bird boxes in Technology.