Community Report ECO Assembly for BIC (Business in the Community)

St Johns Primary School, Commerical Road, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, G78 1AJ

Report produced by:

Ken Heaton MEI

Mitie PFI

Sustainability & Community Engagement Manager

ken.heaton@mitie.com

07341 077758

03.02.2016

About St Johns Primary School (extract from School Handbook) Our School Vision, Values and Aims VISION

Our school is a Catholic school: a place where we make friends, learn new things, play sport, work hard and have fun. VALUES

RESPECT

Be honest

Be responsible

Be polite

Be fair

Be the best that you can be AIMS

We believe everyone should feel safe, happy and be treated with respect.

We hope to grow into nice people who will always help others.

We will work together so that we can be independent, successful learners ready for university or prepared for a job when we are older/in the future.

We make connections and build strong links with industry, employers and our local and wider community. We hold an annual World of Work week

where we invite a range of guest speakers into our school to inspire and motivate our pupils. Classes take up opportunities to share ideas and resources

via glow, the national education intranet.

What is the Mitie Foundation?

The Vision:

“The Mitie Foundation is an independent charity, focused on creating opportunities for people of all backgrounds to join the world of work, by raising aspirations and unlocking people’s true potential”

Areas of focus: Education, Employability, Enterprise

1. Enhancing employability and encouraging enterprise 2. Inspiring Young People 3. Volunteering and Community regeneration.

Mitie received a request from Dr Cymthia Fry, Programme Coordinator – Business Engagement in Early Years, Scottish Business in the Community to deliver our ECO

assemblies to two primary schools. Mitie volunteered to attend St Johns Primary School and deliver ECO assemblies to the whole school with the objecitve of inspiring the

young pupils to become ECO warriors.

Hopefully, this support will help SBIC ‘Business Engagement in Early Years’ objectives and the school to progress further down the ECO schools programe

Ken Heaton, Mitie PFI, Sustainability & Community Engagement Manager delivered the following:

Time Class/Pupils Teacher

13:20 to 14:00 P1 to P3 Primary 1a Mrs Heron Primary 1b Mrs Barron Primary 2 Miss Brew/Mr Murray Primary 3 Mrs McCulloch

14:05 to 15:00 P4 to P7 Primary 4 Mrs Lang Primary 5 Mr Clark Primary 6 Miss Dunsmuir Primary 7 Mr Graham

At the end of the day all St. Johns pupils (185) received proffesional ECO awareness on Climate Change, Saving Energy and Waste/Recycling, all supporting the schools

efforts for their ECO school status.

The pupils learned about

ECO Schools Scotland

Climate Change

Saving Energy

Waste & Recycling

Litter

Being an ECO Warrior is not just for school, it’s a life change in culture for your home life, community and potential your career in the World of Work

Many thanks to Miss. Laura McPherson, Principal Teacher, for a warm welcome and arranging/supporting the event.

Selection of pictures from the ECO assembly below.

P1 to P3 pupils and teachers making the ‘energy pledge’.

P1 to P3 pupils burning energy.

Climate and Change the puppets joining in on the fun.

P4 to P7 pupils and teachers making the energy pledge.

P4 to P7 burning energy.

Remember the hard drive and the wasted energy.

Many thanks to all the pupils at St. Johns Primary for being good listeners, giving some excellent answers to ECO questions, please continue your outstanding work

with all things ECO in your local community.

Policy to consider.

Our policy: (1

st DRAFT proposed)

We recognise our commitment towards the environment and therefore aim to:

Continue to measure our most significant environmental/carbon impacts, aspire to exceed year on year carbon targets and monitor progress in line with the Carbon Reduction Commitments using formal auditing procedure where appropriate.

Ensure that our pupils and employees have an awareness of carbon and environmental issues, and that those with particular environmental responsibilities are provided with appropriate training and support;

Integrate environmental consideration into our procurement of goods and services; Address the direct and indirect environmental impacts of our operations; Regularly review this policy and make it available online.

Our objectives are to: Use energy and water efficiently and optimise our use of natural resources; Minimise the volume of waste deposited to landfill by reducing in the first instant, re-using and recycling materials wherever possible, or by identifying the best practicable environmental options for

disposal; Ensuring that our pupils and employees are aware of relevant environmental issues, and of their own roles and responsibilities in delivering the overall programme, providing training for those with

particular responsibilities; Ensure that our key suppliers and contractors are aware of our policy, and that wherever possible, they operate to similar standard, as a minimum; Continue to provide support for sustainability initiatives that contribute towards the preservation or enhancement of the quality of life in the communities in which we operate; Collate and publish relevant information about our environmental performance on an annual basis via websites.

Signed, Head teacher: Date:

St Johns Primary School: Energy carbon and environment policy

About the author/ECO presenter:

Ken Heaton MEI (Member of Energy Institue)

• 10 yrs. ASDA

• 10 yrs. Energy Consultant

• 11 yrs. Mitie

• Won the UKs National Energy Manager of the Year Award in 2007, awarded by the Energy Institute

• International experience working on audits in the USA and training FM managers in Dubai

• Worked with teachers TV on ‘Going Green’ in a secondary school

• Won PFM (Premises and Facilities Management) Award for Sustainability with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport

• Prior to Energy Management served 6yrs with Royal Air Force

• Served 4 yrs. as a Local Authority School Governor for Lancashire County Council

• Married for 29yrs with a 28yr old son a 26yr old daughter and 6 month old grand daughter