Canaries Class are West Norfolk Climate Champions!

In February this year, Eastgate Academy received an invitation to be part of an amazing competition that included schools from across the region. The competition was formed by a partnership between 8billionideas and the Borough of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk. It was called, Living For the Future.

Living For the Future was an ideas-based competition for primary schools in West Norfolk, which aimed to encourage creativity in every child, educate students on the issue of sustainability and challenged them to design ideas for greener cities in our world.

The competition was for Year 5 pupils and took place during Term 1 of the 2023/2024 academic year. Canaries Class were introduced to the competition through a virtual assembly delivered by 8billionideas in September and completed the six-week project before attending a virtual final.

Throughout the six-week project, Canaries Class learnt about the skills and qualities of being an entrepreneur, created Stone Age business ideas and built on their understanding of being ‘green’. In small teams, the children designed and created their own prototypes of green technologies that they felt would create a more sustainable King’s Lynn. They pitched their ideas to an in-school judging panel before the winning team was selected to represent our school in the virtual final.

The winning team were extremely proud to come 1^st in the overall competition which included 21 schools. They were then presented with their West Norfolk Climate Champions certificates and reward vouchers by the Mayor of King’s Lynn and the local cabinet member for climate change and biodiversity.

When asked about their experiences of the competition, the children replied,  “Canaries Class have loved completing the 'Living for the Future' project. We have enjoyed creating prototypes from our own ideas. It has been really fun. We have learnt the importance of teamwork and how we can use our own ideas to help the environment. We are all entrepreneurs!”

Final attendance news for 2023! 

Congratulations to the above pupils from Canaries Class. As a group, they not only beat the competition from their own class but from lots of different Year 5 classes across Norfolk. As a school, we signed up for a county wide competition lead by the Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. It was a six-week project aimed at primary school pupils. The challenge was for each class to plan, design and build their own prototype based on green technology that would improve the climate of their local town for the future. The judges said Canaries Class won based on their collaboration, effort and most importantly, their understanding of green technology!

This is an extremely impressive result and the children have won prizes for the school and themselves. Once again, congratulations to Mrs Bussy, Mrs Gosling, all the children in Canaries Class and the above 5 pupils for winning the overall competition! We are all very proud of you.

Owls win non-uniform day.