Norton Church of England VC Primary School
Learn Believe Achieve: Hand in hand with God and each other
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.
