Eco Warriors
West Leigh Infant school has an Eco Warriors committee. Each class elects two pupils to be their class representatives.
The Eco Warriors meet regularly to discuss ways to look after our environment and to help their classes to make a positive contribution to our school and wider environment.
Each half term the Eco Warriors has a different focus.
Our Values and Attitudes towards our environment
- Concern for social justice
- Respect for and valuing of human and biological diversity
- Empathy and awareness of the points of view of others
- A sense of responsibility for personal and group actions
- a belief in a positive future to which they, working with others, can contribute
- a willingness to act as a responsible citizen
Skills
- co operative working
- critical thinking
- ability to discern patterns of interrelationship
- ability to distinguish between wants and needs
- problem solving
- reasoned debate
- informed decision making
- creativity, an ability to envision alternatives
Knowledge and Understanding
- that there are basic human needs that are universal
- how their own lives and actions connect with the environment and with the lives and actions of others, locally, nationally and globally; past, present and future
- how, school, home and community can be managed more sustainably
- how the process of decision making work and how to take part in them
- that quality of life is not just dependent on standard of livin