Welcome to the Waste & Sustainability Training Event Paignton Zoo 14 th October 2015

To arm you with practical ideas and activities to try back at school To give an opportunity to network with other teachers To give you confidence to return to school and plan your own waste and sustainability education activities Aims of the day

The waste education model STAGE ONE Conduct a waste audit STAGE TWO Present the results to all relevant people – pupils, staff, caretakers, governors, MTAs STAGE THREE Develop an action plan to make small, well- managed changes. Involve all the school community to help embed these changes. Don’t forget curriculum planning! STAGE FOUR Monitor progress, celebrate success, move on with the plan and maintain momentum

Top Tips! Audit and map what’s already going on This may be a waste audit, 3Rs review questionnaire or a staff meeting. Identify your champions or hidden heroes, acknowledge and celebrate what you are already doing. Develop a whole school approach Create the ethos/mission statement/core values, embed it in the school, make a development plan, make it the focus for the school curriculum. You do not want to leave it to the “sustainability teacher”; it has to be a whole school approach. Develop a plan for every child’s learning Plan learning for sustainability for every child as they progress through the school. Measure the treasure Keep results of waste audits, compare bin collection costs or procurement of paper/paper towels year on year.

Look for connections Ask lots of what if questions, ‘what if we did things in a different way?’ ‘what can our parents offer?’, ‘what are KS1 doing to embed sustainability?’ Get children to participate fully Set up a Green Team, give them the time, space and support they need to come up with ideas and implement change Make it visual Share plans, successes, monitoring and targets. Displays, newsletters, blogs, publicity, parents Support staff to develop their understanding Support other teachers learning more about sustainability. Understand change in society, in your school and in the environment.

National Curriculum Our workshops are curriculum linked and fit in with new national curriculum. With links to PHSE, Science, Geography, Maths, English, Art and design, music Specific examples are Batteries and alternative circuits: Years 4 and 6 Science ‘Materials’ and ‘Recycled Materials Challenge’: Years 1-5 Science ‘Might be Useful’: Key stage 1 Music and Art and Design ‘Waste Audit’: Year 3 and 4 Maths (bar charts and collecting data) All workshops: PHSE – KS1 Improvements and harm to local and built environment. KS2- Resources allocated in different ways affects sustainability

Eco Schools awards (bronze, silver and green flag) By focusing on waste as a sustainability topic your school is covering some of the criteria for the Eco School awards. There are 9 topics, litter, waste minimisation, school grounds, biodiversity, energy, water, transport, health and wellbeing and sustaining our world There are 7 steps to achieving the Eco School awards. Ecoteam- environmental review- action plan- monitoring and evaluation-curriculum work-informing and evaluating-ecocode.

Alex Mack (Resource Futures) Heidi Diepold (DCC) Thank you Melissa Harvey (DCCN) Catherine Addison g.uk