The secondary schools’ conference was held on Thursday 11 July at Sandhurst School.
The conference was organised and hosted by Sustainability and Environmental Education (SEEd).
Just under 50 students from across 6 schools were in attendance:
The secondary schools’ conference was designed around a series of talks from different stakeholders and roundtable discussions.
The final set of roundtable discussions provided students with the opportunity to identify and discuss sustainability issues that were important to them and develop goals and actions for their own schools.
Students also had an opportunity to engage with community groups, local charities and the council who had stands at the conference.
The sustainability issues that were identified and discussed by the students were:
The following sustainability goals, ideas and commitments were identified and created by the secondary schools:
At Brakenhale, we will strive to reduce the amount of environmental waste on our site, by setting up a litter management system.
From this, we will encourage our staff and students to get involved and participate in the recycling and repurposing of our waste material, raising awareness through assemblies, a ‘drop-down day’ and student council meetings.
The whole community will get involved, understanding the consequences of not doing it.
