Zach has been a keen environmentalist since he was at primary school. Now he is doing his GCSEs at Dorothy Stringer school, he has developed quite a reputation as a force to be reckoned with.
He helps run an “Eco-Check” scheme at school, visiting classrooms at lunchtime to check which teachers have turned off lights and computers and measuring the power consumption. This check is followed up with a name and …

Year 10 Liam Russell has been in the Eco Club at Dorothy Stringer since he first joined the school in 2007. At Eco Club, Liam is involved with coppicing maple trees and woodland working days. He says: “it’s all in the school grounds so we deal with the management of the forest. We recently did the butterfly haven, planting all the wild flowers for it.”
He started attending Eco Club because …