Environmental Sustainability

Our Eco Committee plays an important role in life at St Michael's, innovating and promoting projects which are integral to the sustainability and environmental awareness of our school and community. 

We are delighted to announce that in July 2024 St Michael's received the Eco-Schools Green Flag Award which covered aspects including: biodiversity, energy, global citizenship, healthy living, litter, marine, school grounds, waste, transport and water.

Writing to St Michael's on Friday 5th July 2024, Eco-Schools said: "Thank you so much for submitting such a terrific application. We have loved reading about your journey and are incredibly impressed by all you have achieved. We have no hesitation in awarding you an Eco-Schools Green Flag, congratulations!"

We have two Environmental and Sustainability Leads who run an exciting eco programme at St Michael’s Prep. Children and staff across the school are helping our community become more environmentally aware.

Our Eco Committee involves children from all year groups which meets regularly to plan and lead projects across the School. We are proud that the work of our Eco Committee in inspiring members of our community to take part in eco projects during their spare time such as beach cleans. One of our pupils was also named runner-up in the 2024 Sevenoaks Climate Hero Award. Pupils in Years 7 and 8 are also leading initiatives to make St Michael’s more sustainable and environmentally aware.

During our 150^th anniversary in 2022, we introduced many initiatives to make our school more sustainable. These included:

• Planting 150 trees
• Creating wildflower meadows
• Recycling locally: paper, cardboard, plastic, food waste, glass, wood and batteries
• Changing the lighting across the whole school to LED
• Installing sensor lights in classrooms and communal areas
• Having beehives in the school grounds
• Introducing environmental awareness activities in Geography, Science, PSHE and assemblies
• Installing double glazed windows in the Prep and Pre-Prep buildings
• Using ground heat source pumps in the Pre-Prep building