Norton Church of England VC Primary School
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Norton Church of England VC Primary School
Norton C E V C Primary School School Close Bury Saint Edmunds Suffolk IP31 3LZ
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Eco-Schools
At Norton, we have achieved our Green Flag accreditation for several years. Within our feedback for 2024-25, we were told:
Your greatest success has been the growing enthusiasm for environmental care across the school. The widespread participation in litter picking and nature club highlights how sustainability has become embedded in school life, with students taking active responsibility for their surroundings.
2025-26
This year, we have a keen and dedicated group of children for our Eco Committee whose first job was to create our new Eco Code to outline what is important to them and our school.
We conducted an Environmental Review and from this, we chose our 3 priority areas for this year:
Energy Waste Marine
Energy
In the Spring term we held a poster competition asking pupils to design a poster which would remind people about how to save energy at school. The Eco Committee chose 2 winners:
Robin in Year 1 Isla-Rose in Year 3
Congratulations to both winners! You will soon see your posters displayed around school.
Waste
After finding that classroom bins are often not being used correctly, the Eco Committee created new labels and complete regular, random spot checks of bins to ensure waste is being placed in the correct bin.
In line with recent guidance from Suffolk County Council, we have also introduced new food waste bins at break and lunch times. The aim is to reduce the amount of waste we are putting in landfill, so we are separating our food waste, hard plastics and non-recyclables. The Eco Committee did a fabulous whole-school assembly sharing the positive impact this will have on the planet.
Marine
In March 2026, as a committee we invited classes to take part in The Big Plastic Count. This was an initiative to count every piece of plastic packaging we throw away in a week. Star, Galaxy and Rocket classes collected the data and submitted it online. From this, each class created a plastic profile - the results were shocking!
The people who ran this initiative will combine our data with everyone else who took part, crunch the numbers and figure out how much plastic the UK is throwing away and where it ends up. They will take these numbers directly to the government. Hopefully this will pressure them and companies to reduce plastic waste and create a better future for young people. We felt passionately about taking part in this initiative and raising awareness about how much plastic is being used and thrown away unnecessarily.