Clive school wins Eco-Schools Green Flag with merit

Pupils at Clive CE Primary School are celebrating after securing an Eco-Schools Green Flag award with merit.

The school’s eco committee, made up of children from each class, worked throughout the 2025/26 academic year to help make the school more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

The pupils dedicated part of their Friday afternoons to working through the Eco-Schools award criteria, discussing improvements and taking part in projects aimed at helping the local area.

They also worked with a STEM Climate Ambassador to learn more about environmental issues around the world.

The school had already developed its required Climate Action Plan but wanted to include pupils’ own ideas, with the eco committee providing a platform for children to have their say.

Eco committee coordinator Mrs Sallie Watts said the award was a “great success story” and a testament to the children’s dedication and concern for the environment.

“To achieve the award with merit in the first year is fantastic and the children are rightly proud of, and excited by, this accolade,” she said.

Executive headteacher Miss Nicola Brayford said she was proud of the pupils for their efforts.

“The children have worked hard to achieve this and I am pleased they have been so richly recognised for this,” she said.

She also thanked staff for giving pupils the opportunity to discuss environmental issues that affect them “both now and in the future”.

The eco committee will now decide which areas and issues it wants to tackle during the new school year, with the aim of retaining the Green Flag status.

And there is one practical problem still to solve – how to display the new flag without a flagpole.