Our girls care greatly about the world they are destined to inherit and are vociferous and proactive in looking for opportunities to save the planet. Whether it be paper recycling, abolishing palm oil or searching for plastic on a beach clean initiative, Queen’s girls are passionate about making a difference.
We are keen to provide the girls with a voice, and an opportunity to achieve what they can, and so have worked hard with our Eco-Committee, to achieve our Green Flag Award and the Gold Award for the Green Tree schools award, endorsed by the woodland trust. This is a credit to the girls who want to make the change that ultimately matters.
They have demonstrated great initiative in taking the lead on reviewing the schools environmental performance and have designed their own projects to reduce the schools impact on the environment. Acutely aware of the climate change crisis we might face, the girls have felt empowered to ensure change through taking action to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
A group of students have been working with EA Technology on their ‘Road to Zero Project’, which is a very exciting project aiming to make the science block carbon neutral through a range of strategies such as energy conservation and switching to renewable resources of energy. Another pressing issue is the loss of biodiversity, outlined by David Attenborough’s documentary "Extinction: The Facts". In response to this, pupils in Years 7-9 have been working on improving the schools biodiversity and green spaces through planting projects to create new hedges and wildflower areas which they are looking forward to taking shape over the coming years.
The Eco Committee have shown high levels of leadership and responsibility throughout as they continue to evaluate each project and its success.
