Eco Council and Eco-Boorley!

Eco Council at Boorley Park is run by Mrs Talbot. The council meet regularly to discuss ways in which we can look after our school, our community and our world, nurturing futures of all. Check this page for updates!

September 2025 - Update 2

Harvest Festival 

Eco club are very grateful to everyone who contributed to the Harvest Festival collection for the Food Bank. Lots of children were involved with making the posters and bunting, and drawing beautiful chalk leaves for our Harvest display. The display includes some of our jars of homegrown chutney, our homegrown pumpkins, squash and marrows!

Community Garden
How many sunflowers are growing on one stem? Eco club would love you to go and find out!

Rotary Shoebox Appeal
Mrs Talbot asked one of our new Eco club councillors why she volunteered for the role: She explained, "I want to help the world."
Our Eco club discussed this and are proud to announce that we are supporting The Rotary Shoebox Appeal again this year. Rotarian Andrew Gillman kindly came in to explain to the children what the Rotary Shoebox Appeal is all about during assembly. The Rotary Shoebox Appeal collects and distributes shoeboxes filled with gifts to disadvantaged children around the world. Here are the links for more information.

Wessex Rotary Shoebox Scheme for Disadvantaged Children - Home

Chutney making
After picking lots more tomatoes, Eco council worked hard to make more chutney. There was a lot of chopping involved!

 September 2025 - Update 1

The vegetable garden has been flourishing! The children have done a great job at harvesting the plethora of tomatoes and they have been turned into Boorley Park chutney! This is for sale in the office and 100% of the proceeds will be invested back into the garden. 

May 2025

Eco club met last week. They are very excited because we have organised some wonderful activities for World Environment Day 2025. This is all about Plastic Pollution. Each class will complete a lesson about this during the day.

Gardening news: Hurray! Soil for our wooden beds is arriving in half term. Eco club are very keen to start gardening. If you have any lettuce, spinach or radish plants that you are keen to let us have, so that we might grow a little crop before we break up, please let us know. Also if you are a gardener and would like to be in our Garden Club, please do let the office know. We are keen to have some helpers.

June 2025

Following Eco Club's letters asking for donations, we were very successful receiving plants from St James Church in Shirley Southampton and from friends of Mrs Talbot. There are squash, chard, kale, onions, tomatoes and some other plants, including a cucumber growing in our new beds. A huge thank you to Mr Finley for organising and filling the beds with soil, and to Eco-club for planting our new plants. Eco-club have already written thank you letters to those who have given us donations. We are especially excited because Southern Water have donated a brand new Water Butt for our use.
Eco-club are working hard to enable our school to achieve The Eco-Schools Green Flag Award and The RSPB Wildlife Challenge. They made some apple and sunflower bird feeders that are already up in our community garden. Well done Eco-club!

World Environment Day - 5th June 
World Environment Day, with a theme of Plastic Pollution, took place last Thursday 5th June. Eco-club encouraged all classes to take part. Our children are passionate about the environment and created some incredible responses to their learning on this topic. Here is a selection of work created by children across the school, including posters to inform others to stop plastic pollution, or to show an invention that might help to stop it, sculptures made from plastic waste, and a huge class poster of resolutions. What an incredible day!

Eco Code 

The Eco Council have developed a Boorley Park Eco Code that we all strive to work towards. 

Green Flag Eco Schools Award

We are delighted to share that Boorley Park Primary has been awarded the Eco Schools Green flag award with distinction, to recognise all the work being done around eco-friendliness. A big 'Well Done!' to Mrs Talbot and the Eco Council for all their hard work so far. 

Community Garden - June 2025 

The children of Boorley have already done an amazing job at planting and watering the growing garden at the front of the hall. We have already been able to grow herbs, including chives and chard, that Amy in the kitchen used in the salads served to the children last week. Delicious! 

July 2025 - Allotment update!

The garden is now looking very summery. There are tomatoes, courgettes, onions, pumpkins and yellow squash growing very happily. Well done everyone for such a superb effort watering and growing the garden. It is wonderful. Billy and Amy have been able to make salads and muffins with our vegetables. Well done!