The Grey Coat Hospital

Church of England Comprehensive School for Girls

 
 

 

Eco Club

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 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, with past trips including to a local building site to have a tour of their sustainable practices and to the Chelsea Flower Show.

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! We have recently done a project with the University of Westminster to introduce food waste collections to the school. New members are always welcome, as well as the form eco reps.