Eco Club

The Eco Club started in 2009/2010 and has empowered pupils at Bedford Drive Primary School to improve their environmental awareness and drive change. Pupils who want to join the Eco Club, become our Eco Warriors.

Bedford Drive Primary School was the first Primary School in Wirral to be awarded Green Flag Status from Eco Schools. We have a commitment to developing strategies that sustain and enhance resources and the environment, and the Eco Club meet regularly, with the Eco Club Coordinator, Mrs Finnigan, to share ideas to enable us to reach our Eco Schools targets.

Since its launch, the Eco Club has grown massively: Some of our activities, projects and strategies include:

  • Growing our own range of fruits and vegetables over (strawberries, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, cabbages and herbs). 

  • Implementing recycling bins throughout school, which means we can recycle the majority of the waste we produce. The children are encouraged to dispose of their own waste during lunch-time, which helps them to understand what waste can be recycled.

  • Reduced our carbon footprint by looking at our Energy Performance Certificate each year and doing what we can to use less energy; Our Eco Warriors carry out termly reviews in each class looking at energy and waste and we regularly hold “switch-off weeks”, whereby the whole-school is encouraged to switch the lights off in their classroom.

  • Making our school environment more welcoming to animals and insects, developing natural habitats, such as log piles, nests, leaf dens and bug hotels. We have also installed various feeders around our extensive school play area, which attracts wildlife to the grounds. We have also helped our children understand the life-cycle of a caterpillar, by watching caterpillars change into chrysalides and then emerge as beautiful butterflies. The children then raise and feed the butterflies and release them into the wild!

The Eco Club have also taken part in different competitions and events, which have been arranged by the local community. In 2018, we were delighted to be involved in the art installation by Lulu Quinn, A Message in a Bottle, that was commissioned by Wirral Borough Council as part of the Tall Ships Festival. This project was focused on reducing plastic waste, and children from the Eco Club were invited along to a workshop with the artist to help in forming the huge sculpture made from one-use plastic bottles, which was then installed at Marine Point in New Brighton.

eCadets

In order to enhance the teaching and learning about online safety throughout the year, we have our very own eCadets! These are pupils in KS2 who are interviewed each year and given the respected position because they already have a sound awareness of how to stay safe online and would like to help their peers learn more.

Our eCadets meet regularly to complete a variety of termly challenges. They spend time learning about aspects of online safety such as digital footprints, being a good digital citizen and how to use search engines safely to name only a few. Following their sessions, they will go back to their class and help their peers to learn what they have and often develop this further. They then submit their tasks and reflect on what they have learnt and what we need to focus on next. At least once a term there is an assembly task, which is always a great opportunity to proudly share their learning with the whole school. They have even involved parents on occasions such as sports day to help them understand the importance of not sharing photos of children on social media without permission.

Every year we take part in Safer Internet Day which our eCadets are instrumental in organising and holding an assembly to share and celebrate how we can all help to keep ourselves and others safe online. 

Some of our eCadets have been on the team for 2 or 3 years now and have a wealth of knowledge to share and show off their gold badge with pride.

Click here to learn more about the eCadets programme.

Please click through the photographs below to see what our fabulous eCadets have achieved so far…


Extra Curricular Clubs

At Bedford Drive Primary School we are pleased to be able to offer a variety of clubs after school which are provided by our teachers and teaching assistants.

The clubs that we are running change each term and these will be communicated via parentmail for parents / carers to sign their child up to.

Our clubs for this term are: 

  • Multi Sports

Are there any clubs that you would like to see take place in school?
If you have any ideas for clubs please let your class teacher or the school office know.

In addition to extra curricular clubs, we also run after-school interventions. If your child is being invited to these you will be contacted directly by their class teacher.