Sustainability Climate Action Plan
What can we do here at Runcorn All Saints CE Primary School?
The DFE has called on all education sectors to create a sustainability climate action plan to show how we, as a school community, can support national and international initiatives which are aimed at protecting the world through direct climate action. As a school, we have important role to play in this, particularly reducing our environmental footprint to work towards net zero and giving all children, young people and adults the knowledge and skills to thrive in the green economy and to help restore nature.
Through our sustainability climate action plan, we will engage directly with children and young people who are passionate about the natural world, want to do their best to protect it and can influence their wider communities.
Through their learned and lived experiences from early years to Year 6, our children will develop a broad knowledge and understanding of the importance of nature, sustainability and the causes and impact of climate change and to translate this knowledge into positive action and solutions.
Using the four areas identified in the DFE’s Sustainability and climate change strategy Sustainability and climate change: a strategy for the education and children’s services systems - GOV.UK our sustainability and climate action plan will focus on:
- Decarbonisation e.g. taking action to reduce carbon emissions and becoming more energy efficient.
- Adaptation and Resilience e.g. taking action to reduce the risk of flooding and overheating.
- Biodiversity e.g engaging with National Education Nature Park Home | Education Nature Park
- Climate Education and Green Careers e.g. knowledge rich comprehensive teaching about climate change.
It will also include:
Creating an environment from an early age where we can connect to nature is essential for self-enforcement in protecting and valuing nature’. Ensuring our children will:
- spend time in nature and learn more about it
- become actively involved in the improvement of their local environment
- know that regular contact with green spaces can have a beneficial impact on their physical and mental health.
Climate adaptation and decarbonisation activities can provide powerful learning opportunities.
Ensuring, our children will:
- participate in the implementation of climate adaptation measures
- learn in buildings designed for net zero
- find out more about the impact of energy and water use
- See sustainability brought to life in the buildings around them, allowing them to gain experiences which will enhance and contextualise their learning.