King’s Worcester Achieves Prestigious Green Flag Award

The school’s Eco Committee is celebrating after receiving the news that its hard work has earned the school the prestigious Eco-Schools Green Flag accreditation, joining Prep Schools King’s St Alban’s and King’s Hawford.

Eco-Schools is the world’s largest schools’ environmental programme, and the accreditation is awarded to schools that show a particularly strong commitment to making the school more environmentally friendly and raising eco-awareness.

Since its inception in September 2024, the pupil-led committee has embarked on a number of sustainability projects around the school, with the aim of creating a greener environment for the King’s community.

Focusing on three key themes – waste, biodiversity and global citizenship – the committee has planned and introduced the projects in collaboration with senior school teacher, Mr Jackson, Director of Operations, Mr Winter, and catering company, Thomas Franks.

These have included the ‘Food Waste Challenge’, which has encouraged pupils to throw away less food at lunch times, as well as a poster challenge to raise awareness of how to reduce food waste.

In the school gardens, biodiversity surveys, using apps including Merlin and Picture This, have identified plants and wildlife and informed exciting plans to improve the areas through rewilding. The committee has also installed a hedgehog house, bug houses, new bird tables, and seven new bird boxes made by one of the committee members.

In addition, the Green Day charity cake sale and pre-loved clothing sale raised over £1700 for the Emily Jordan Foundation and Wild Goose Rural Training.

It has been a wonderful opportunity for the committee members, made up of pupils from across the school, not only to work with school staff on real-world projects, but also to engage with local organisations. Over the past year, they have met with Worcestershire Wildlife Trust, Worcester Cathedral’s Eco-Committee, as well as visiting local shop, ‘Pack It In’, and EnviroSort recycling centre.

The committee has also been instrumental in introducing more sustainability topics to PSHE lessons, advising on new areas which now include fast fashion and waste reduction.

Teacher, Adam Jackson, said: “We know that sustainability is a topic close to many pupils’ hearts; a survey in March 2025 showed that 71% of senior school pupils reported environmental issues as being quite or very important to them. I’m delighted that the committee’s hard work has not only been recognised with this award, but has also made a real and lasting difference to the King’s community.”