13 Oct 2025

St. Helen’s College Hillingdon Celebrates Another Eco-Schools Green Flag Triumph

This academic year, pupils at St. Helen’s College have continued to lead the way in promoting sustainability and raising environmental awareness among their school community, including peers, staff members, and the wider local community. Their exceptional efforts have once again been recognised with the prestigious, internationally recognised Eco-Schools Green Flag accreditation.

At St. Helen’s College the curriculum is especially designed to entwine an Eco overview, with a focus on science and geography in particular, but also including literacy, drama and art. Many extracurricular activities such as 'gardening club' and ‘nature club’ promote practical environmental skills.

Sustainability and Eco awareness are championed in school by a dedicated Eco Team from Nursery to Year 6 who meet regularly to plan and implement green initiatives. The team actively promotes sustainable projects such as ‘switch off fortnight’ and ‘waste week’ across the whole school community.

The school sustainability committee meet termly to discuss actions to continually improve the education, carbon footprint and school environment. Recent projects to support this have included installation of water butts to preserve water use and weighing our food waste daily to reduce overall wastage.

Speaking about their achievements, the Head Sophie Green says, “We are extremely proud to receive the Eco-Schools Green Flag accreditation once again in recognition of our work on sustainability. The Eco Team are passionate about sustainability and are fantastic ambassadors for green projects across the school. This a something we know is incredibly important to our children, and the school community, and it is brilliant that St. Helen’s College is playing its part to improve the environment.”

The Eco-Schools programme, established in 1994, has been inspiring young environmentalists for over 30 years. It has grown into a global movement, with Eco-Schools Green Flag accreditation awarded to schools in more than 100 countries. In England alone, the programme reaches over 1 million young people each year, empowering them to make a positive impact on our planet.

St. Helen's College is a forward-thinking, nurturing prep school for boys and girls aged 2-11 in Hillingdon with excellent all-round pupil development and academic results. For more information visit the school website www.sthelenscollege.com. St. Helen’s College Ltd is part of Forfar Education Group.

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12 Sep 2025

St. Helen’s College Hillingdon Invests in New Sustainable Playground Equipment

The children at St. Helen’s College Hillingdon's Upper School site returned to school this September with a surprise in store: two brand new climbing frames to explore!

Over the summer holiday period two large pieces of exciting new playground equipment were installed into the Upper School playground as part of a carefully planned upgrade to provide pupils with the very best outdoor play facilities.

The bespoke natural wood climbing frames have been expertly designed by TouchWood to stimulate learning and development through play and to provide the children with lots of breaktime fun. The structures include a rope swing, a large slide, tunnels and a thrilling climbing wall and provide pupils with an adventurous and exhilarating playground experience.

Ms. Green, Head at St. Helen’s College says, ‘We are delighted with the new play equipment and the positive response from the children, who are thoroughly enjoying it. The natural wood frames complement our green school grounds and offer the children lots of developmental challenges and fun. St. Helen’s College is committed to investing in all aspects of educational resources, including facilities and equipment, to ensure that our school is at the forefront of new initiatives and delivers all round excellence.’

St. Helen's College is a forward-thinking, nurturing prep school for boys and girls aged 2-11 in Hillingdon with excellent all-round pupil development and academic results. For more information visit the school website www.sthelenscollege.com. St. Helen’s College Ltd is part of Forfar Education Group.

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16 May 2025

St. Helen's College Hillingdon Hosts Life Skills Day

This week at St. Helen's College every child across the school, from Nursery through to Year 6, participated in an exciting Life Skills Day, designed to teach (or allow children to practise) some essential life skills which are not always taught in school.

Age-appropriate activities were provided for all of the children to teach a wide range of skills such as financial planning, sandwich making, shoelace tying, tent pitching, den building, clothes hanging and folding, gift wrapping, car washing, recycling, making a bed, Muay Thai mindset and different ways of looking after our bodies. Parents volunteered to share their skills and expertise with the children at timetabled sessions throughout the day.

St. Helen's College Head, Ms. Drummond, says, 'At St. Helen's College we help prepare children for life now and after primary school. The children thoroughly enjoyed the day and were so enthusiastic about attempting new activities and consolidating existing knowledge and skills. We are delighted that they made the most of the opportunities on the day and hope they will put to good use the wonderful experiences they had. We would also like to extend sincere thanks to all of the parents who visited us on the day to run workshops or assist our staff - and, of course, to all of the staff who worked so hard to put on such a special day. It really was a community event and such a valuable experience for all the children.'

St. Helen's College is a forward-thinking, nurturing prep school for boys and girls aged 2-11 in Hillingdon with excellent all-round pupil development and academic results. For more information visit the school website www.sthelenscollege.com.

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