Five Roads flies second Green Flag

 

ECO-FRIENDLY pupils and staff at Five Roads Primary School are celebrating their second Green Flag.

 

They have pulled out all the stops in their efforts to help save the planet as part of the Eco Schools programme. A partnership between Carmarthenshire County Council, Keep Wales Tidy and the National Botanic Garden of Wales, pupils study topics including litter, biodiversity, water, energy, waste, transport, healthy living and global citizenship. The Green Flag is only awarded to schools which have demonstrated a real commitment to tackling climate change.

Headteacher Eira Rumble said: “In order to achieve our second Green Flag, the children have been growing vegetables and herbs in the school garden which they then sold to the parents and members of the staff. They have also worked extremely hard over the last year to maintain healthy eating, recycling and learning. The school tuck shop has increased custom due to the children changing the choice of healthy foods and the children took part in a workshop which taught them a lot about recycling.”

The school’s eco co-ordinator Caryl Jones said the pupils were already looking at ways of developing and improving the school to gain Green Flag number three. Local member and chair of governors as well as chair of the council’s Environment Scrutiny Committee Cllr Jim Jones said: “I would like to congratulate the staff and pupils for all their hard work in achieving their second Green Flag, they really are an example to us all.”

CAPTION: Pictured (from left to right) are pupils Theo Barnes Watson and Cerys Lloyd, council sustainability assistant Sharon Griffiths, school eco co-ordinator Caryl Jones, pupil Benedict Griffiths, headteacher Eira Rumble, Cllr Jim Jones and pupils Emma Rowley and Rebecca Evans.