St James's Primary School, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim

Eco Council

Our aim is to make the school environment more Eco friendly. We try to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as we can. We have started our Eco Award to promote Eco throughout our school and try to include all pupils in our campaign. Our ultimate aim is to get the Green Flag to represent our goal. We are trying to encourage our peers to use the correct bins and to not throw rubbish on the ground. We occasionally litter pick around the school and we planted flowers around our school to make it look brighter. We established an Eco song for the school to represent our Eco goals. We held a coat recycling week for people to swap their unused or unwanted coats, which the parents found very useful. We held a competition to design an Eco Warrior to represent our school and display our main aims on our Eco board in the assembly hall. Our Eco warrior is called Earthena and she is now represented  on our monthly certificates. We aim to hold a uniform recycling week to help our school community and allow parents to get the uniform items.   

Eco Council members

P.4 - Olivia Weir and Filip Mack

P.5 - Benjamin Tumilson and Aicha Chohri

P.5/6 - Scarlett Beatty and Niamh Laverty

P.7 - Iona Sweetnam, Kamaia Porter, Ronel Mathew Gigy and Mikayla King. 

LSC2 - Thom McGlade

 
29th Apr 2026
The Eco team have been busy trying to take out many weeds in our garden. The children...
 
 
 
 
26th Apr 2026
A huge thank you to Jessica and her team from Chest Heart and Stroke who came to...
 
 
 
 
21st Apr 2026
Congratulations to Primary 2 and LSC2 who were the joint winners of our bottle top...