Eco Council 2025-2026
- Governor: Mrs R Williams
- Teacher: Mrs Fox
We are the Eco Committee of Black Lane School. We help to encourage everyone to look after our environment by following our Eco Code. We held a whole school competition to design our Eco Code. The whole school voted for the poster that they felt best shown what we do at Black Lane to be an eco friendly school. Well done to Eleri! This is our current Eco Code.
We have achieved the Bronze Award and the Silver Award in recognition of the work we already do towards being an Eco School. We achieved our 1st Green Flag in July 2018 and our 2nd Green Flag in June 2023. We are now working towards maintaining our Green Flag and achieving our 3rd flag.
We are involved in carrying out an Environmental Review every year to find out what we do well and what we need to do to improve. Please see our Eco Review 2024-2025:
We used the review to create an Action Plan, which will inform our work this year:
To keep up to date with the progress we are making in our school please check our Eco Council Newsletters:
12th February 2019 – We visit the Mayor’s Parlour every year with the School Council to meet the Mayor. We learnt about the improtant roles of a councillor and how we can help make things better in our community. We also got to see how a council meeting was run with the Mayor. We learnt lots of history about Wrexham too!
Green Flag Award
We are thrilled to announce that we’ve achieved our second Green Flag Award for our commitment to becoming an Eco School!
Now, we’re aiming even higher as we work towards earning our third Green Flag. A huge thank you to the staff, parents, and children of Black Lane for coming together as a team to support and promote our Eco School projects. We couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve accomplished!
Eco Day
On Eco Day, children work together in mixed-age groups to explore seven exciting stations, each designed to teach important lessons about caring for our planet. Activities include learning about recycling, reusing, and reducing waste, improving biodiversity around our school grounds, reducing carbon footprints, creating art using natural materials, and even using herbs we’ve grown ourselves in food preparation—plus much more!
Parents, carers, and members of the local community are invited to join in, making it a true team effort. We were delighted to have support from Brymbo Heritage, who helped the children press apples using an apple scratter and press to make their very own fresh apple juice.
It was a fantastic day full of fun and hands-on learning, helping our pupils become ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world.
