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A leading global energy company has reinforced its commitment to the North East by announcing a partnership with an inner city school in Aberdeen.

GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd has pledged £3,000 to St Peter’s RC Primary School in order to support its biodiversity programme. The partnership was announced as the school prepared for its Easter celebrations on Monday 25th April.

St Peter’s holds a silver flag from the national green schools initiative, Eco-Schools. The aim is for the city centre based primary to achieve the coveted green flag status, the top accolade that can be awarded through the Eco-Schools scheme.

In order to do this the school needs to continue to improve its eco-garden and some of the money pledged by GDF SUEZ E&P UK will be used for additional reed fencing. Funds will also be used to support new eco-themed playground markings and towards the creation of a ‘Peace Garden’.

Jo Martin, headmistress of St Peter’s, based at Dunbar Street, Old Aberdeen, welcomed the partnership. She said: “There is a real commitment and enthusiasm from pupils and staff to the Eco-Schools initiative and this partnership and donation will help us further our goal of being awarded the prestigious green flag accolade. We are delighted that GDF SUEZ E&P UK has chosen our school to create this special relationship and the children are very excited about the improvements that will be made through this very generous donation.”

GDF SUEZ E&P UK established its E&P operations centre in Aberdeen in 2009. The organisation is particularly keen to support projects that have a theme of biodiversity and another key focus is providing assistance to local communities.”

Andreas Frank, the Aberdeen based operations manager of GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd, was at the school to announce the partnership.

He said: “St Peter’s has an excellent record of progressing its biodiversity projects and we are very impressed that it has been proactively encouraging its students to engage in the nationally recognised Eco-Schools initiative. The school is making sure its pupils have a head start in issues that will prove important to them as they get older.”

St Peter’s lists one of its aims as ‘working together to improve the environment, encourage citizenship and promote healthy lifestyles.’

It is a multicultural primary school with a number of languages spoken including Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Cantonese, French, Hungarian (Magyar), Konkani, Swahili and Tamil.

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