Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Jack and Linea from the Children’s Parliament back to talk about Sustainability.
Today’s focus was on our ‘campus’ and how we use our school building. This ties in with the Scottish Government’s aim that by 2030 they want to make sure that…
- all schools are eco friendly in how they heat, power and use materials at school.
- all spaces can be used to learn outdoors within,
- all spaces respect children’s rights.
The pupils were set the task of re-creating the school campus using anything they could find in the classroom – not easy but they worked together and did so well! They then needed to write down how each area is used and how eco-friendly these areas are. We linked our school campus back to the UNCRC Children’s Rights Charter so that we could see these rights as they are put into action. This gave us lots of things to talk and think about.
We are doing lots already to make our local campus as sustainable as it can be, but we know there are lots of steps we could take to improve. Some of these things we would need to help to put into action – but Jack and Linea said that all our opinions are important and they’d take all ideas back to the Scottish Government.
Another great session! We are looking forward to our next session next month too 🙂
