Eco-Centre
For many years we have managed the Centre
with environmental concerns in mind and have tried to incorporate some
of these issues into our teaching programmes. We buy and use recycled
products, recycle items from lunch boxes, try to reduce our electricity
use and demonstrate the idea of a sustainable resource by producing (and
selling) composted meadow cuttings as an alternative to the use of peat
based products.
Click here to see how successful
our recycling has been!!!
Education for Sustainability has an important role in the Citizenship curriculum (Curriculum 2000) and ideas are prominent within Geography. 'Geography plays a significant part in promoting education for sustainable development through: developing pupils' knowledge and understanding of key concepts of sustainable development, such as interdependence, quality of life and diversity'.
We have achieved Eco-Centre status
The Eco-Centre scheme is designed to encourage and acknowledge whole-centre action for the environment. It is designed to make environmental awareness and action an intrinsic part of the life and ethos of our centre for all of its staff and visitors.
Daws Hall achieved Eco-Centre status in June 2004. We have developed an Eco code, carried out an audit of current practice, and are now continuing to meet our targets of improved environmental performance!
As an Education Centre we believe that it important to share our ideas with all our visitors. We prominently display information about our environmental policy and performance and provide information on what you can do at home and in school. We are keen to promote the Eco-Schools scheme and may be able to offer help.
Eco-Schools is an '…Europe-wide
project designed to encourage and acknowledge whole-school action for the
environment. The scheme offers a well-defined, controllable way for you to
take environmental issues from the curriculum and apply them to the day-to-day
running of your school. This process will help your pupils recognise the importance
of environmental issues and take them more seriously in their personal and
home lives.' Like the Eco-Centre scheme, Eco-Schools is both a programme and
an award scheme. For more information contact the Centre or look at
www.eco-schools.org.uk
