Presentation & Discussion sessions
Sustainability presentation and education across 50 schools
Making sustainability relevant to different audiences - and using presentations & discussion sessions a springboard for action.
The Challenge
Sustainability and resource use can feel abstract to young people unless they can see how it connects to their everyday lives.
Working across the London Borough of Enfield, I was asked to develop a waste and sustainability education programme for schools across the borough.
The challenge was to engage children from nursery through to secondary school, while making the subject relevant to different ages, levels of knowledge and school contexts.
What changed
The initial presentations developed into a wider borough-wide programme.
Schools increased recycling and energy-reduction activity, that became linked more closely with the curriculum and pupils were encouraged to take on leadership roles themselves.
The programme also created connections with wider community groups and encouraged schools to continue developing their own activity.
