In Autumn 2025, Roe Green Juniors chose Water as their OSOW, delivering a truly whole-school effort.
They focused on four key actions:
- Working with the site manager to monitor water meter readings and identify operational savings.
- Tasking pupils with a Water and Climate Change Project, exploring issues like droughts, floods, and heatwaves through creative activities such as building rain gauges, designing family water-saving challenges, and creating posters or models to raise awareness.
- Launching a Water-Saving Challenge for parents, encouraging families to adopt practical habits like turning off taps when brushing teeth, taking shorter showers, using refillable bottles, and fixing leaks.
- Hosting six themed assemblies led by different staff members, covering topics such as the global water crisis, the link between water and climate change, practical water-saving tips, and inspiring pupils to take action both at school and at home.
To make the theme visible, they showcased it on their OSOW board in the playground, ensuring everyone knew the focus. The result was strong engagement across staff, pupils, and families, sparking practical actions and deeper understanding of the importance of water!
You can find a video recording where Shpresa explains the project in more detail and the pupil challenge / parent letter here.
