This year we at Bolsover Infant and Nursery School made a pledge to beginning looking at our school’s commitment to climate change and reviewing our climate change curriculum across school.
In the Autumn term the children (in key stage 1) made their very own commitment on a postcard, about how they could help lower the worlds temperature. Some children promised to use less resource ie: water and electric, some promised to walk or scooter to school instead of drive, others promised to do some planting. In the spring term all of the children spent a week learning about how they could help ‘save the world’.
Since then I have been working hard to become one of the first teachers and head teacher’s in the country, and definitely the first in Derbyshire, to become an accredited United Nations Climate Change teacher. This I achieved in May and have now become a member of a select group of only 80 accredited teachers leading on the climate change initiative in the UK.
Over the coming months we will be reviewing all our planning and looking at making bold steps into ensuring our children know they are making a difference to the world. Recycle bins have been order and plans are definitely shaping up.
This year we have also continued our work with ’Smurfit Kappa’, they have been really supportive in helping us to use more recycled materials in and around school. You may have seen our Sports’ Day’ podium that has added to our recycled garden furniture of chairs, benches and palate vehicles. We also took delivery, a few weeks ago of our new (recycled) tyre tables/chairs and the plans for them are afoot. Our immediate plans are to add a new section to our newsletter so that we can share our plans, thoughts and new learning with our community, as well as start this blog to share this with the world.
We look forward to seeing what we can achieve together…
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