Keeping Brightside Green

The Green Team

The Green Team at Brightside NI School have a special job to help Mrs Bishop, Miss Buck and Mrs Beck to take care of the environment in and around school.  The Green Team meet every two weeks to discuss ideas, plans and do jobs around school! Please see the action plan below to find out our plans for this year or see our Eco-Board display in the hall for more information. 

Green Team 2025/26

Autumn 1 - This half term the y1 and y2 pupils applied to become part of the Green Team. Mrs Bishop was so impressed with all of the application forms, and they chose 2 pupils from each Key Stage 1 class (see picture below). The Green Team are very excited to get started and help improve our school grounds and environment. The children met with Mrs Bishop to discuss their roles around school, and share ideas for this academic year. During the first meeting, we discussed the importance of preventing food waste to link to learning about harvest time throughout school. 

Green Team 2024/25

Well done to last year's Green Team for achieving the Green Flag award with Merit for the academic year 2024-25, all your hard work earned us this fantastic award!

Over the 2024/2025 academic year, we continued to develop our projects such as the School Garden and the Outdoor Woodland Area.

We elected a Green Team! The Green team met with Miss Jones (Mrs Bishop) and Mrs Beck and helped her to take care of the school garden. They planted lots of seeds and bulbs and grew some delicious potatoes!

They have also been involved in a range of projects such as:

• Living Streets Travel Tracker 
• Green Week/Community Week
• World Culture Day
• International Week  
• Earth Day
• Monitors to help keep our school 'green' e.g. plant monitors, light monitors, bin monitors
• Changing the school recycling system
• Forest Schools field area clean up
• Gardening after school club 
• Big Battery Hunt
• The RSPB Big Birdwatch
• Walk to School Week 
• Volunteers from local businesses to help develop our School Garden and Forest School Area