At St Mary's we have a strong commitment to  Eco action. Our work is led by the Eco committee who are voted in by their peers each year. This year the committee have chosen to work on three topics: Energy, Marine and Global Citizenship. You can read our action plan here.

We started off the year with a presentation to the whole school, telling them about our planned actions. We started our first topic; energy, by having a less energy day. Each class also worked with their teacher to find out more about saving energy. Our energy monitors are also making sure that lights and computers are only on when really needed. 

This term we have taken part in Stockport School's Climate summit. We took part in lunchtime lessons to find out about issues affecting Stockport and how the council are working to make things better. We came up with our own ideas and were so happy to have our idea of 'setting up swap shops' chosen to be debated at the town hall. Ruby and Tadhg were chosen to represent us and did such a great job of promoting our idea that everyone voted for it. We are looking forward to finding out how the council will implement our idea. 

We were also very happy to find out we had been awarded another grant from Stockport Hydro. We asked for money to buy new litter pickers so that we can continue to look after our school and local environment.

We have joined in with 'The Big Plastic Count' this year as part of one of our Eco actions. We have been counting pieces of plastic in support of Greenpeace, who will use this information to lobby our government to make new laws to reduce plastic use.