2025 Green School’s Trophy Winner

St Peters CE Academy impressed us with their passion and dedication to preserving and improving their local area for wildlife and the community.

They are protecting local wildlife by:

• Providing safe homes through bird and bat boxes
• Creating and maintaining bug hotels to support insect populations
• Providing nutritious food for birds throughout colder months
• Planting wildflowers and watering the garden with recycled water

They are supporting Community Action: 

• Year 4 students litter pick every half term in the local community and make an environmental pledge during their leavers service

They are promoting the importance of recycling: 

• By creating a fun recycling initiative with Ralph the Recycling fish, where students can recycle soft plastics
• Visit the recycling centre to recycle school waste weekly
•  Encourage home recycling in the community
• Created a book recycling shed – where students can drop off unwanted books and share them with others in the school

They are learning with a sustainable mindset:

• Becoming palm-oil aware, using a scanner app to encourage sustainable shopping at home
• Supporting wild orangutangs through Born Free Foundation.
• Visiting Derby University to learn about coral reef conservation
• Engaging with speakers and environmental organisations such as:
  • Born Free Foundation
  • Recycling and conservation experts
  • Wildlife Aid
  • Animal Aid
  • Local beekeepers
  • Severn Trent

We want to send a huge congratulations to St Peters CE Academy for winning the Green School’s Trophy 2025 – and well done for all your hard work and dedication to our countryside and the planet. Keep up all the impressive work.