Initiatives we currently follow at Halsford Park:

Living Streets’ Walk to School programme encourages children to travel actively to school by walking, wheeling, cycling, or scooting. The initiative helps improve children’s health and wellbeing, making journeys to school safer, and reduces air pollution around the school gates.

 

 

 

One of the programme’s most popular activities is the WOW – the walk to school challenge which we do here at Halsford Park. Pupils who make active journeys to school and record them each week can earn fun rewards and badges. You can continue this momentum at home with this fun activity pack.

 

How does this help the Environment? Schools taking part have seen a positive impact on local traffic, with car congestion outside school gates reduced by an average of 30%.

 

We have a very active, established Eco Council that follows the Eco-Schools programme. It provides a simple, seven-step framework that empowers our young people to make a difference in their school, local community and beyond.

We connect our Eco 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 our young people to consider environmental changes that they can make in their school and everyday lives. You will regularly see what we have been up to in the school Newsletter and can find out more on our school webpage under Eco Council.

Eat Them to Defeat Them is an award-winning UK schools’ campaign by Veg Power and ITV, launched to increase children's vegetable consumption. It uses a playful "vegetable invasion" theme—portraying vegetables as fun, powerful creatures that children must eat to win a "battle". We have successfully taken part in this fun initiative for the last 3 years with pupils eagerly ‘defeating’ their veg both at school and at home during that week. To build on this success families can continue this adventure at https://eatthemtodefeatthem.com/families/

 

Bikeability offers young people the chance to develop their skills and confidence to cycle safely on today's roads. It is the government recognised syllabus for cycle training in the UK.

Level 1 and 2 is offered across Years 5 & 6 by a team of nationally accredited instructors. Not only does this course help to increase basic skills, observation, hazard awareness and perception of risk whilst riding but it also offers environmental solutions. It is a cost-effective way to reduce congestion and better manage parking around school at peak times. It also encourages healthy lifestyle choices.

 

We are currently working with Let’s Go Zero to develop practical ways to reduce our carbon emissions here at Halsford Park School. They support schools in creating ideas and action plans that pupils, staff, and the wider school community can follow to make a positive impact on the environment.

 

 

Together, we are developing our Climate Action Plan for the coming year, with a focus on meaningful and achievable changes across the school. Watch this space for updates and exciting new initiatives!