1. Northfield Academy Eco School
Environmental Review Overall Summary
March 2012- March 2013
Following our survey of the environment of our school we
have found:
Things we are happy with:
• Fresh, daily produce used and special diets are
catered for on request
• The school is looking at biodiversity on a department
level
• Tree planting scheme
• S1 John Muir award
• Links being set up with different schools (Mr Rorie)
• The school is looking at being ‘A Rights Respecting’
school
• Seating for corridors being bought through sponsored
walk money
• Eco schools notice board
• Celebrate pupil achievement within Eco Schools through
Dynamic Youth Award and Celebration of Success
• Environmental curriculum review to be undertaken
• Government/HMIE inspected school canteen menus
• S1-S4 PE (110 mins approx)
• Lunch extra curricular clubs
• Anti-bullying policy
• Home Economics always use raw ingredients
• The Eco committee will focus on litter in some way
• Departmental reviews of litter have been undertaken
• Bicycle storage area
• Sponsored walk event
• Departmental traffic surveys

2. • Departmental investigation of water issues
• Outside artwork visible across the school grounds
• Developing Outdoor Education through Network
champion.
• School grounds open for public use
• School email is the preferred way of communicating
• The school uses ‘group call’ for a lot of home-school
communication
• School hosts paper recycling facilities
• Recycled toilet paper and hand towels are used
• Hot water supply is properly managed
• Most windows are new and properly insulated
• All outside doors close automatically

3. Northfield Academy Eco School
Environmental Review Overall Summary
March 2012 – March 2013
Following our survey of the environment of our school we have
found:
Things we need to take action on:
• Let the community know what is happening with Eco
Schools when work is underway
• Developing the school grounds
• Becoming a ‘Fair Trade’ school
• Measure our Global ecological footprint
• Water cooler available in every faculty
• Eco schools in school improvement/development plan
• Buddy system advertised better throughout the school
e.g. who can help/why/when etc
• Extra curricular after school club that caters for all
age ranges
• S5/S6 (50/55 mins approx) PE
• No access to garden or an allotment for growing food
• Further visits/outside speakers needed to educate
pupils on food and the environment
• Use food grown in school grounds in cooking projects
• No school litter policy
• Whole school survey of litter with results shared with
everyone
• Litter audit carried out revealing the types of litter
found
• Very little involvement in Community/National litter
pick ups
• No rewards or sanctions in place to discourage
littering
• No school travel plan which is shared with parents

4. • No official staff car sharing scheme
• No network of shared routes to school
• Outside sheltered and shaded seating areas need
improvement
• No school garden/allotment managed by pupils
• There are areas of the school with drainage problems
in wet weather
• Recycling of paper from every department regularly
• Not all photocopying is double sided
• Avoid throwaway packaging in packed lunches
• School does not use the recycling facilities it has
effectively.
• The pupils and staff who carried out the review
believe there are not enough bins inside and outside
the school. Also, that they are not in the right place.
This has been echoed by Ian Thomson
• The pupils and staff who carried out the review
believe that not all scrap paper was saved for
recycling or reused. However, Many classes do recycle
but there is not a system in place.
• Not all classes have a recycling bag. No collection of
these bags has been put in place.
• No compost bins
• No sources of renewable energy used
• There are still some old windows that are not insulated
properly
• No record of water usage
• No automatic flush controls or hippo systems in the
toilets