Children at Shoscombe Church School had the opportunity to mark British Science Week recently with some coordinated tasks and activities focussing on the environment.

British Science Week, run by the British Science Association is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths, featuring entertaining and engaging events and activities across the UK for people of all ages.

Shoscombe School Headteacher, Ruth Noall, said: "As part of British Science Week, we took the opportunity to support children's mental health by doing lots of planting within the school grounds as well as setting up some growing experiments and a sunflower competition.

Mental health has been hugely impacted over the last 12 months, so outside, garden-based activities for children can be very therapeutic and beneficial."

Shoscombe Church School also used the week's theme to announce their involvement in the international, Green Flag Eco-Schools Award.

Ruth added: "The programme is designed to raise environmental awareness amongst young people and in England it is run by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy. Our school is now part of this global community working to create environmental change for the benefit of our children and future generations.

" Every school taking part in the Eco-Schools around the world programme follow the same simple Seven Step framework. This usually takes schools between one and two academic years to complete. After achieving our first Green Flag, our school can continue in the programme and achieve multiple Green Flags whilst continuing to work on and promote environmental issues. One of the most exciting things about the programme is that the process is designed to engage the whole school and its wider community."

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