One journey building a sustainable school

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One journey building a sustainable school

• The past .. The present ..
• The Future?

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How it began .. The first six years

• 21 years ago
• Built a pond. planted a wood, built expertise in
  art, rural science, geography, MFL
• Green committee focus re-cycling, energy,
  school council
• Building partnerships ..WWF

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What did we learn?

• Respect the wisdom.
• Build pupil voice.
• Community partnerships
• Stewardship - one planet living
• Build on staff and
• pupil energy and
• initiatives

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School aims

• Be equipped to contribute to a sustainable common
  future
• respecting the natural environment and
  understanding our dependence on it
• knowing the finite nature of the Earths
  resources and exercising responsible stewardship
  for future generations
• understanding that quality of life involves more
  than material standard of living
• understanding and respecting the religious, moral
  and cultural values of other people
• appreciating the range of human achievement and
  being prepared to learn from it
• knowing about the social, economic and political
  structures in society
• understanding the place of individual and
  collective rights and responsibilities
• being committed to social justice and eco justice
• understanding the dependence of people on each
  other and caring about the well-being of others

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Embed the vision build the structures

• Structures
• ESD Coordinator
• SLT- DH
• AHT- pupil participation
• Governors
• ESD filter
• Specialisms
• SDP
• CPD Staff and pupils

Kenya Living Sustainable lives

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Typical week at Crispin

• Daily curriculum
• Building our learning community
• Pastoral systems
• Peer supporters- oi listen ear!
• -peer mediators
• Weekly
• School council
• Houses
• Learning revision classes
• Sport
• Music
• Drama
• ICT

• Daily Energy Police
• Monday
• Re-cycling team
• Wednesday
• Climate change action group
• Thursday
• Fair trade café
• Kenya crew .. Planning slum survivor
• Youth Watch
• Friday
• World Challenge
• Saturday
• Ground-force

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ESD staff diaries typical week.

• Tom White ESD coordinator
• Meetings
• Discuss Green room developments
• Specialisms meeting .. Energy room
• Subcommittees
• Fair trade café
• CCAG
• Research
• E.g weather monitoring systems
• ESD days .. Planning
• Debbie Carter
• Re-cycling team and litter
• Kenya crew
• Lucy Bennet, Rob Sutherland, Jayne Rowland, Tom
  White, Fran Thomson

• Frances Thomson Deputy
• Meetings
• Richard Horsham- AST, outdoor learning
  education, school grounds , global citizenship
  .. ISA HOD art
• Tom White -ESD co-ordinator
• Clubs
• Thursday Kenya crew
• Saturday Ground force
• Prep
• Prep for Governors Welfare
• Prep QCA
• Specialisms meeting
• Admin Community of practice .. Master class bug
  boxes.. Doorway .. Outdoor classroom. Thank you
  letters Kenya links school programme

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Bens Diary

• Meetings
• Climate Change Action Group
• Kenya Crew
• Data logging for the Energy Police published
  results
• PowerPoint presentations on environment and energy

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ESD at our best

• Kenya visit 09
• 6 cluster schools
• Is modern Technology a good thing?
• Peer tutoring in primary school
• Energy Conference
• Community of practice
• ESD Curriculum enrichment days
• Community days Low Energy

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Future. The Crispin Way.

• Build our school as a sustainable learning
  community nurturing self esteem, building
  participation, fun, pupil voice, RJ, SEAL, ECM.
  
• Improving learning developing opportunities for
  systems thinking .. Crispin way
• Nurture respect for diversity social and
  biological sense, respect of life,
  interdependence. Awareness of being a global
  citizen, attitudes curiosity, skills of
  reflection, analysis, application, team work, RJ
  
• Local community.. Citizenship skills, speaking,
  listening, debate, compromise, action, reflection
  
• Community of practice .. NCSL.. Energy room KS1
  and 2 outreach work
• Knowledge co-creation
• EXCITING CHALLENGING .. Building a sustainable
  school .. Continuous process for both staff and
  pupils

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Your journey building a sustainable school

• The past .. The present ..
• The Future?