This school year our Focus Week programme is littered with environmental-themed topics designed to broaden the students awareness of the climate and environmental crisis which is gripping our planet.
These weeks include
* World Clean-Up Day
* Second-Hand September
* Remembrance (Environmental Impact of War)
* Road Safety Week (Electric / Diesel / Petrol)
* Recycling at Christmas Week
* World Heroines – Greta Thunberg
* Go Green Week
* The Big Plastic Countdown
* World Water Day
* Fashion Revolution Week (Vintage & Second-Hand)
* British Hero – David Attenborough
* Sun Awareness Week
* Endangered Species Week
* Clean Air Day
* World Ocean Day
* World Insect Day
All of the weeks include special assemblies and tutor time activities, but they are also mapped against the National PSHE Association Criteria, and include House Competitions on debating and independent learning.
Moreover, there are also trips, guest speakers and staged events designed to extend thinking and awareness as we rely on our students’ generation to address the problems that their parents’ and grandparents’ generations have largely created.
The visits have included community litter-picking walks, trips to recycling and waste management centres, visits to coasts and rivers. Elsewhere, we have undertaken environmental Christmas projects and have a vintage fashion show in the pipeline.
In addition all students have signed up to a commitment to ‘Our Planet = Our Future” and their signatures are all over a huge mural located in a central location in our school which each child will pass each and every day.
Matt Allman, Headteacher, said; “In a world of climate change deniers, demands to scrap investment in green energy, and political short-termism, we are determined that our students see the bigger picture and are informed to make the changes as individuals that can add together to form a collective approach to protecting our planet. Small changes do matter – acorns grown into oak trees – and it is vital our students understand they are important and can make a difference.”
