Clive CE Primary School is celebrating its latest achievement after being awarded the Eco-Schools Green Flag Award with Merit.
The school’s eco committee, comprising children from each class, dedicated part of their Friday afternoons last year to working through the award criteria and identifying ways to make the school more sustainable and environmentally friendly.
This also included mini projects to help improve the local area. The committee also worked closely with a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) Climate Ambassador to learn more about worldwide environmental issues.
Clive School had already developed the DfE-required Climate Action Plan and wanted to extend this to include the children’s thoughts and ideas. The eco committee was established to work through the Eco-Schools criteria to achieve the green standard with merit.
A testament to children’s dedication and their concern for the environment
Mrs Sallie Watts, eco-committee coordinator, said: “The award is a great success story and a testament to the dedication of the children and their 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”.
Miss Nicola Brayford, Executive Headteacher, said how proud she was of the children for all their efforts: “The children have worked hard to achieve this and I am pleased they have been so richly recognised for this. I am grateful as well to the staff for giving them the opportunities to discuss these important issues that directly affect them, both now and in the future”.
With the recognition of green flag status, the work doesn’t stop there. The school’s eco committee will shortly be deciding what areas and issues they want to tackle this year and look to retaining the green flag status for many years ahead. One major decision will have to be how they are going to display the flag without a flagpole!
What is the Eco-Schools Green flag?
What is Eco-Schools?
In our experience, educators and young people care deeply about environmental issues and have a strong desire to actively protect our planet. However, environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity-loss, or plastic pollution are huge global issues and the thought of tackling them can be intimidating, leaving many feeling overwhelmed and wondering ‘Where do I begin?’
The Eco-Schools programme provides a simple, seven-step framework that answers this question whilst empowering young people to make a difference in their school, local community and beyond. Since 1994, millions of young people around the world have worked through the Eco-Schools Seven Steps before being recognised for their efforts with a prestigious Eco-Schools Green Flag.
Schools connect their activities to three or more of the Ten Eco-Schools Topics. These topics break large, global issues like climate change into more manageable and directed themes that prompt young people to consider environmental changes that they can make in their school and everyday lives.
Notes for editors
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Our Trust comprises fourteen schools bringing together a vibrant and diverse community of over 6,200 students, 900 teaching and support staff and 84 local committee members.
September 2026 marks ten years of The 3-18 Education Trust, from the founding schools of Priory and St Martins in 2016 to our growing Shropshire-wide community of schools today.
This year we celebrate Our Trust at 10 recognising ten years of collaboration, growth and shared ambition across our Trust and community of schools.
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