Sustainable Schools Resources

This overview from the Carbon Trust for the schools sector introduces the main energy savings opportunities that can be found in the majority of schools, and demonstrates how simple actions save energy, cut costs and enhance the learning environment.

Intro film for the ceremony of the Covenant of Mayors 2011. Amazing work is being done by cities right across Europe to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and improve energy efficiency.

If you have had problems going back to the UNESCO survey on Survey Monkey, please see the survey questions here and send your responses to Sarah Simmons by email: sasimmons88@gmail.com by 5:15PM on Wednesday 25th January.  If you are unable to send your response to us by this time, don't worry, we are still very keen to hear your views and your responses will feed into SEEd's Policy Forum

This survey will saty open until Feb 29th 2012 for UK collation purposes

The school has gained a silver Eco-Schools award, and is currently working towards the Green Flag. It runs several sustainable development initiatives and embeds the principles into the school’s ethos and the curriculum, including an ‘Eco Code’ and an ‘Eco Council’, consisting of students of all ages and a link Governor who attends their meetings. This group leads on ‘switch off’ campaigns, free trade projects and tree planting.

New figures show that half of London's boroughs are serving healthy, ethical and environmentally sustainable meals to their schools' pupils. Meal providers in these boroughs have proved that they meet the Food for Life Catering Mark's Bronze or Silver award, a benchmark for quality catering in schools.

A survey to explore the main issues related to school food procurement, the challenges involved, areas where support may be helpful and how efficiencies could be delivered and sustainability improved.

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A short guide on how to eat greener, healthier and more ethical food.

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This document provides information for schools on how to set up their own food co-ops involving teachers, families and students. This kind of school buying group makes fresh, local, ethically produced food more accessible to its members, and supports local farmers by providing them with a local, regular and reliable outlet. A school food co-op can also support other programmes such as Healthy Schools, Eco Schools and Food For Life. To learn more, see attached document and click here

This is a table of resources for use in teaching and learning about Biodiversity which were collated by SEEd and reviewed in workshops. The resources are categorised by: relevance to different  curriculum subjects; age groups; the 8 doorways of the Sustainable Schools Framework; as well as  wider educational objectives and outcomes in Every Child Matters (ECM).

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A policy resource list of who is who in DfE, as of Summer 2010.