Eco Warriors Lead the Way in a Greener Term-December 2025

This term, our Eco Warriors have been busier than ever, taking action across the school to help protect our planet and inspire others to do the same. Their dedication has made a real difference, and we’re proud to share some of their fantastic achievements.

Each day, the team has taken responsibility for collecting paper recycling from classrooms. Their consistency has helped the whole school stay mindful about reducing waste and making sustainable choices. Thanks to their efforts, our recycling levels are higher than ever.

In November, the Eco Warriors also took part in ‘Cut Your Carbon Month’, encouraging students and staff to make small, everyday changes—such as switching off lights, reducing plastic use, and choosing reusable items. Their assembly to their year groups helped everyone think more carefully about how our actions affect the environment.

Another highlight of the term was working with the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust to complete a full environmental survey of our school grounds. Our Eco Warriors explored habitats and assessed how our outdoor spaces could better support nature. We are looking forward to further working with WWT in 2026  to make future improvements to  our school grounds to ensure they are even more eco-friendly and biodiverse.

Year 5 also had a special opportunity to learn about sustainable travel through an engaging Active Travel assembly, delivered by the Wychavon Active Travel project. Pupils discovered the benefits of walking, cycling, and scooting to school—not only for the environment but also for their own health and wellbeing.

It’s been an inspiring term, and we’re excited to see what our Eco Warriors achieve next as they continue leading our school toward a greener future!

Eco Picker-Punathon - The Results!

After taking delivery of brand-new litter-picking equipment, our Eco Warriors believed that giving each tool a pun-tastic name would encourage everyone to take better care of them. Thus, the "Eco Picker Pun-athon" was born!

The whole school were invited to sweep through their imaginations and come up with the most rubbish-related puns they could bin-vent.  The Eco Warriors had a challenging yet enjoyable time selecting their top 15 favourites from a pool of exceptionally creative entries.

The 15 winners were proudly announced during Monday's assembly and have had the honour of having their pun emblazoned on the new equipment.

With each entry earning 1 house point and 5 bonus points for each winner, the following points have been added to the current overall totals –

Turing – 96 points

Bannister – 95 points

Bronte – 92 points

Attenborough – 79 points

Congratulations to all participants for showcasing such remarkable creativity and humour; it's clear we have some budding wordsmiths in our midst!​

Rombino & Julitter – Isabella 7AU

James Binned – Mason 6JD

Spongebob Binpants – Theo 5FH

Cristiano Binaldo – William 5RB

Bin Diesel – Finley 6RA

The Binnions – Olly 6JD

Binnie Mouse – Pearl 5RB

Binoccio – Ivy 7AU

Bindianna Jones – Lilia 6MD

Jack Greenish – Billy 7LC

Lord of the Bins – Imogen 5FH

My Litter Pony – Elsie 7AU

Elvis Trashly – Louise 6MB

Lightning McGreen – Jamie 7AU

Trash-osaurus Rex – Sophie 7LP

Eco Picker-Punathon!

In response to our environmental review – and the enthusiasm from our pupils – we have invested in new litter-picking equipment. To make things even more exciting, we have launched a house competition to name our new litter pickers! 

Trees Call to Action Project

As part of the Trees Call to Action Project, our Eco-Warriors teamed up with the inspiring Heart of England Forest charity to plant fruit trees, contributing to an incredible 4,685 acres of new woodland across Warwickshire and Worcestershire! We are excited to see our new forest school area flourish!

Recycling

Our Eco-Warriors each have the responsibility of emptying their year groups recycling bins one day a week - the bags can be very heavy! If they notice things being put in the wrong bins, they are very responsible and let the class teacher know to remind the children

Eco-warriors have been working on their application for the Green Flag Award this year. They started by completing an Environmental Review of the school to identify what we already did well (which was a lot!) and areas we could improve to make Westacre more eco-friendly and sustainable. From there, they identified 3 key areas to focus on which were 'litter', 'school grounds' and 'transport'. Throughout the year they have set up rotas to collect recycling from each classroom and litter pick at break and lunch times, introduced and cared for plants around school, reminded adults and children to turn off devices and lights when not in use, shared their peers' views in meetings and fed back to their classes after and much more! During November, they launched 'Cut Your Carbon Month' across school encouraging the school, and local community, to reduce their carbon emissions and in May they supported the 'Walk to School Week' by sharing the benefits of walking with the school community and leading by example! To conclude their application for the Green Flag Award, the eco-warriors created Westacre's Eco Code which they shared with their classes.

As a result of their hard work, enthusiasm and dedication over the year, Westacre was awarded with the Green Flag Award, with Distinction!