Category: Ecology

21st February 17

We were absolutely delighted to welcome Virginia McKenna to the school, where she spoke to girls in Years 3-6 about her work, and the importance of working to help save animals from extinction. We ‘met’ many of the animals from Virginia’s life through hearing their stories. The girls were full of intelligent and thoughtful questions afterwards….

25th November 16

Our Eco Committee recently visited Chambers Recycling centre to view how our waste was recycled. As part of our commitment to our Green Flag award, the committee were able to view the  various breakdown methods at the centre and learn about how it was then packaged to then be sent onto processing plants, in countries such…

1st October 16

The Year 7 have been busy over the past week designing the Eco House of the future. As part as our commitment to the environment, the girls have been learning about how we can conserve energy in our houses in their Geography lessons. Mr Stephen Baird, Head of Geography and Chair of our Eco Committee, has been…

20th June 16

Our Eco Roofs are now blooming in the sunny summer weather! Part of our commitment to Eco Awareness.

16th October 11

The Eco-Committees of both Junior and Senior Schools have started working together towards the prestigious Eco-schools Green Flag Award. The award is a flagship of the Eco-schools programme that has a range of criteria that needs to be fulfilled. These include completing in-depth work on three of the nine Eco-school topics such as energy, waste…

4th October 11

This year the annual GSA’s Girls Go Green Week event will take place from Monday 3rd until Fri 7th October 2011 The purpose of the week is to allow the girls and staff to engage in a range of eco-friendly activities in order to raise awareness of environmental issues and the importance of sustainable development….