Copperworks Infant School has gone Platinum.
Copperworks Infant School has gone Platinum. Staff and pupils are celebrating after achieving the highest accolade possible under the Eco Schools programme. The Platinum award is the equivalent of four Green Flags and is only given to schools that have demonstrated a real commitment to the environment. Eco school’s co-ordinator Jane Beynon Morgan said: “We are all very pleased and proud to achieve this prestigious award. The children, who are only aged 3-7, have worked very diligently to achieve the award by embedding many eco initiatives into the school curriculum. By engaging and promoting these important issues the children are learning the importance of recycling from an early age. They take these important issues home and into the wider community.” The Llanelli school has held a “Flush the Loo Day” where all the children and staff counted the number of times the toilet was used ad then calculated the amount of water used. The eco committee installed hippo bags in all the toilets...