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The Eco Committee at Newland School for Girls welcomed Lauren Murtagh from 'Living With Water' this afternoon for another great workshop. The focus was on Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDs). The students had to identify an area of the school campus that was prone to flooding and devise a scheme for it. We were really impressed with the variety of different solutions presented. Our profound thanks go to Lauren for leading this session.

Jessica and Aaliyah from the C3 Group have visited Newland School for Girls to meet their Eco Committee. The students have been busy during the last year with various Eco projects. These have included collecting plastic bottle tops as part of the Schoolcycled project, reducing waste and ensuring students were using the correct bins. The students were also eager to share their work in developing a garden area with even more ideas for planting up different areas of the school.

We have been delighted to welcome Dr Steven Forrest to Newland School for Girls for the first of the school-based Eco Games sessions. This follows on from the inaugural session at Hull University on 8th October, in which all ten of our schools attended. This project is to develop Eco Games, based around schools' campuses. Newland Students were fashioning their school's bespoke version of the game. Their ideas will be used to create a game that other students will be able to p

This week, our Thrive Student Congress met for their first session of the new school year, with a visit to the Criminology Department at...