In a world of “Drill, Baby, Drill”, criticism of the ambition of UK Net Zero, and climate denial, we prefer to educate our students with the emphases articulated by Bob Brown, (1944-    ), Australian Doctor, Politician & Environmentalist who said: “The future will be green or not at all.”

From September 2025 we will be launching a school ‘Year of the Environment’ project for environmental education – building on the coverage the themes already have across our school curriculum – so that our students obtain all the facts and understand the debates and counter-arguments surrounding environmental change.

Our Focus Week programme will see wide coverage of environmental themes through assemblies, tutor time activities and special events and projects:

* W/B 22 September – World Clean-Up Day
* W/B 29 September – Second-Hand September
* W/B 13 October – World Food Day
* W/B 3 November – The Environmental Impact of War
* W/B 17 November – Road Safety Week (Electric / Diesel / Petrol)
* W/B 1 December – Recycling at Christmas Week
* W/B 12 January – World Heroines – Greta Thunberg (Wider Env Heroes)
* W/B 9 February – Go Green Week
* W/B 2 March – The Big Plastic Countdown
* W/B 16 March – World Water Day
* W/B 13 April – Fashion Revolution Week
* W/B 4 May – British Hero – David Attenborough
* W/B 11 May – Sun Awareness Week
* W/B 18 May – Endangered Species Week
* W/B 1 June – Clean Air Day
* W/B 8 June – World Ocean Day
* W/B 15 June – Refugee Week
* W/B 29 June – World Insect Day
* W/B 6 July  – Reviewing the Year of the Environment

All students will sign up to a commitment to learn about the changing environment around them and to understand the difference they can make with their life choices.

This initiative also ties into the government’s commitment that all schools should have a Sustainability & Climate Action Plan by September 2025.

Matt Allman, Headteacher, said: “It is amazing that we launch our ‘Year of the Environment’ with a readiness for criticism, but having had students travel to Borneo and seeing the expansive palm oil plantations, and others to Southern Africa where they saw and heard about the threat of persistent drought, we do not feel we can sit by and leave environmental protection to random chance or eventual doomsday chance. The final decision on environmental action or inaction will rest with our students and their families, but we believe education is the best means to initiate individual change.”