Eco Club is a group of budding young environmentalists who meet every Thursday lunchtime to carry out projects related to improving the environment of our school and raising environmental awareness amongst the students and staff at The Grey Coat Hospital. We hold seminars on topics that are of interest to the students, as well as helping to grow different plants for both the school site and our own homes!

We have started work this year on joining the National Education Nature Park, and are building up our online portfolio to help with this UK wide initiative. We also go on trips during the year, the most recent of which was to the Chelsea Flower Show, where we met some exhibitors with sustainable ideas for gardening and growing in the future, as well as exploring the show gardens!

We are also helping the school to be more sustainable and form a Climate Change and Sustainability Action Plan for the future, working with many different stakeholders in the school to try and improve many different aspects of school life from recycling to energy use to catering to photocopying! New members are always welcome, as well as the form eco reps. 

This year the Eco Club have held an Eco Week which involved many Grey Coat girls getting involved in exciting activities such as the 'Trashion Show', a Recycling Relay and dressing up as a Giant Polar Bear! The girls have also organised cake sales to raise money for Greenpeace and have presented assemblies to the whole of lower school to help raise awareness. Currently Eco club is growing it's very own vegetables and creating an 'Eco Corner' for others to enjoy. We hope to have a nice crop of vegetables to try before the summer, and are looking forward to releasing butterflies later on this term!