Whitchurch CE Primary School, near Ross-on-Wye has been chosen to be just one of five schools across England who will hold the prestigious Eco-Schools Ambassador role from January 11th 2016 – 2018.

Eco-Schools is the largest Education for Sustainability programme in the world, and is run in England by Keep Britain Tidy. To date over 17,000 English schools are registered with the programme, with over 1,700 holding the International Eco-Schools Green Flag award.

Each year Eco-Schools choose exceptional schools across the country to represent their programme and encourage new schools to join. Schools hold the role for two years, and must have held the Eco-Schools Green Flag award for four consecutive years to be eligible to apply for the role. 

Eco-Schools Ambassadors are expected to work above and beyond the expectations of the Green Flag award, going that extra mile to demonstrate that sustainability is core to the schools culture, that they show inspirational leadership and an initiative approach to working towards the Eco-Schools programme, as well as helping other schools to adopt the Eco-Schools framework.

The ECO Team at Whitchurch School said, “We are thrilled that our hard work in keeping sustainability at the heart of our school and wider community has been recognised”.