Croydon High School recognised by Sir David Attenborough

Congratulations to Croydon High Junior School Gardening Club who have received the School For Nature Award – signed and approved by none other than Sir David Attenborough.

This year, the RSPB, WWF, WWT and the Woodland Trust collectively highlighted all the schools that have taken action to protect and restore nature. Croydon High School were selected and their eco-friendly gardening credentials were listed as follows:

• Planting pollinator-friendly plants
• Companion planting instead of using pesticides.
• Removing pests by hand and relocating them
• Creating our own compost
• Creating leaf mould
• Using no dig techniques to keep carbon in the soil.
• Using peat free compost.

Well done Croydon!

Sustainability at the GDST

Croydon High School are part of the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST), a family of 23 independent schools and two academies across England and Wales. Sustainability is a green thread that runs across everything we do, which includes at our schools, with our students, our estate, our people and partnerships, and how we look forward to a brighter and greener future.

Discover more about sustainability at the GDST