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Eco Schools
The Eco Schools award scheme has been established as part of the
Banish Rubbish campaign to work with educational programmes to
cover:
- litter;
- waste minimisation;
- energy;
- water;
- transport;
- healthy living;
- school grounds;
- global perspective;
- biodiversity.
Advice and information is available once a school has joined the
scheme, which can be especially useful for any improvements to the
school environment. Groundwork Medway Swale and the European-funded
Interreg IIIA Environmental Stewardship project back the
scheme.
Eco Schools (www.eco-schools.org.uk/) is a
great way to begin or further children's understanding of the
environment. All the themes are linked to the national curriculum,
the scheme works at a pace suitable for each school and they are
supported at all stages. A network of fellow Eco Schools is also
available through the website, enabling schools to share best
practice.
This is a way to bring together the school community and take a
sustainable approach to any improvements on the school grounds, as
pupils will be involved with projects from the start.
The scheme has been used as an inventive way of studying a
variety of subjects in the National Curriculum including English
literature, art, geography and science. It also has several links
to the Healthy Schools scheme
and is co-ordinated locally by Medway Council.
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