Climate

On November 5th 2025, we celebrated Climate Joy at Beechwood. It can be easy to get despondent about the climate and the environment, but on Wednesday we celebrated climate joy and looked for the good news and the positive things we can see about our environment and our world.

We celebrated the wonderful grounds we have at Beechwood with a sponsored scavenger hunt, to raise money to improve our school environment even more. We also had Shine who worked with each year group practising our climate songs.

Have a look at the pages below to see some of the things we did.

This week, we celebrated Earth Day with a fantastic range of activities across all year groups. Each class took part in exciting projects to explore how we can care for our planet — be sure to visit each year group's page to see what we got up to!

A special highlight was our time with Carly from Shine, who helped every year group learn a brand-new song all about Climate Joy! 🌱🎵

You can listen to the song and download the lyrics using the link below — why not have a singalong at home?

Class 8 really enjoyed our climate scavenger hunt around school.

 As part of our climate day, we thought about the different types of habitats and biomes in the world and learned about the animals and weather there. We enjoyed being creative to show what we had learned.

Eco Schools' Climate Conference

Recently, 10 children from Year 4 and 5 took part in a very special climate focused day at Leeds Civic Hall. They had to talk to other schools about Beechwood's climate work and get ideas for our next steps by listening to what other schools are doing. In the afternoon, Artis helped us teach the other schools one of our climate songs. Everyone loved joining in with us and we hope that they will use the song to teach the importance of climate action in their schools. Here's what Member of Parliament, Katie White, had to say:

On Wednesday 12th March we held our Spring Term Climate Day. Every year group in school carried out different climate based activities as part of our climate curriculum work. We enjoyed learning different songs and we talked about the school's carbon footprint. Each year group looked at what they had learned from their spring term climate knowledge mats. If you would like to find out more about these and what we have been doing look at our class pages above.

Our Carbon Footprint for 2024-2025

Free Ebook Download 

Beechwood Green Group introduced our climate work today in a whole school assembly as part of our climate joy day. They did a fantastic job and made everyone aware of how important taking action and looking after the Earth is.

Biodiversity Week 4th - 8th March 2024

Biodiversity is the variety of different species living in an ecosystem and is essential for life on earth. Having a high level of biodiversity makes an ecosystem stronger, and more able to cope with environmental change. Without the ecosystems and animals and plants on our planet, the world would be a completely different place, most likely a place without any humans.

Throughout the week, each class has been learning about biodiversity. The week started with a special assembly explaining what biodiversity means and why it is important to keep a high level of biodiversity. Every class has taken part in an age-appropriate biodiversity activity and have also had the chance to work with Artis and learn a very special song. The song was written specially for Beechwood and explores the reasons why biodiversity is so important. It is called, 'The Biodiversity Blues'.

Biodiversity Quiz

Test your knowledge and have a go at our biodiversity quiz. See how you do!

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Thank you for the fantastic entries we had to our 'How Important Are Trees?' competition. We hope you enjoy looking at them and well done to the winners.

Links

Tree Growth Simulator	Outdoor Activities	Scavenger Hunts
Oak Trees Life Cycle	Oak Tree Information	Exploring Trees