Victoria Primary 6/7 S’mores and Hot Cocoa
June 25, 2024Primary 6/7 children from Victoria PS took part in the Falkirk Social Enterprise Dragon’s Den event in November 2023. They pitched their social enterprise idea… Read more
Social Enterprise Success for young people at Carrongrange High School
June 20, 2024Young people in S 4 and 5 at Carrongrange HS received their Social Enterprise Academy(SEA) award at a glitzy ceremony in Edinburgh in… Read more
Exciting Partnership with Social Enterprise Academy
October 10, 2022Social Enterprise Academy Scotland is a social enterprise organisation which “enables every young person to step up, realise their potential, and create the change they… Read more
Working in Partnership – Scotdec
August 26, 2022Our LfS partners are an essential part of our LfS Framework in Falkirk and there are so many great resources out there to support schools… Read more
Creative Tools Which Teach Pupils about Biosecurity
June 20, 2022Pupil power takes saving our seabirds to another level Online education resources designed by school children launched by conservation project RSPB Scotland is encouraging primary… Read more
Bintastic names for Falkirk Council’s waste vehicles
April 26, 2022Waste Services and Street Cleansing want to say a huge thank-you to all the schools that participated in our Name the Vehicle competition. Thanks to… Read more
It’s Time for Spring Clean 2022
February 21, 2022Litter levels in Scotland are at their worst in a decade. Research from Keep Scotland Beautiful shows that 88% of Scots agree that litter is… Read more
Dandelion Project
January 31, 2022All Falkirk secondary schools, and their associated primaries, have been invited to take part in this exciting, fully funded, food growing initiative. The Dandelion Schools’… Read more
Introducing our Litter and Waste Education Enforcement Officer
January 20, 2022Ella Gorman is our Falkirk Council Waste Services and Litter Education Enforcement Officer. She can support learning about litter and its impact on our communities… Read more
Carronshore Primary Pupils Visit COP 26
December 10, 2021Staff and pupils at Carronshore PS have been learning about climate change recently. A group of pupils were lucky enough to go to Glasgow and… Read more
Introducing our Falkirk Council Climate Change Team
August 9, 2021What is the latest international data on climate change and how can it be accessed? The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) published the technical… Read more
News, Updates and Preparing for COP 26 in Falkirk!
May 25, 2021This blog post collates information from the national Learning for Sustainability network for practitioners and senior managers working in Falkirk education establishments. It shares exciting… Read more
Involving Falkirk Bairns – Building the rights of our Children and Young People into planning and processes
May 25, 2021Falkirk Children’s Commission – Children’s Rights and Engagement Group are recruiting staff, children and young people to help create our Falkirk Council and Partner organisation… Read more
Sustainability Partnerships – The Future Speaks Event for Young People
February 15, 2021Callum MacLellan of Sustainability Scotland is helping to organise online events in the 8 electoral areas of Scotland where S5/6 school pupils ask questions of… Read more
Useful links and further reading
February 8, 2021As an integral part of our ‘LfS in Falkirk Framework’ we have started a series of CLPL courses aimed at practitioners and managers. These courses… Read more
January 2021 Professional Learning Opportunities
January 21, 2021Upcoming professional learning in Falkirk: LfS 6-2021 9th February 2021 3.30-5 pm – Building LfS into your curriculum – introducing the Falkirk LfS framework and… Read more
Learning for Sustainability Update – November 2020
November 12, 2020Yvonne McBlain and Jane Jackson have liaised with partners to build a programme of professional learning and resources for the next few months. This programme… Read more
Latest Newsletter from LfS Scotland
June 3, 2020You can find the June Bulletin from LfS Scotland here. It is full of information about training opportunities including Connecting Classrooms. There is… Read more
Support for Learning for Sustainability during Covid 19 School Closures
April 28, 2020This post is designed to collate the many Learning for Sustainability teaching and learning resources available to practitioners during school closures as a result of… Read more
Bantaskin Primary School Eats Sustainably
June 15, 2018In August 2017 Alistair Findlay, acting principal teacher at Bantaskin PS began to work with primary 5, 6 and & 7 pupils on a “Good… Read more
National Learning for Sustainability Practitioner Network Meeting
January 30, 2017On Wednesday 18th January 2016, Yvonne McBlain attended the Learning for Sustainability practitioner network meeting organised by Ian Menzies, Senior Development Officer, Education Scotland. The… Read more
Water Celebration at Kinneil Primary School
March 18, 2016On Wednesday 16th March, Primary 4 pupils at Kinneil PS celebrated the value of water. As part of their global storyline learning, they created their… Read more
Learning for Sustainability in Carron Primary School
February 3, 2016We all know how effective learnng can be when it is related to real life, especially when young people can direct further learning and see where/how they… Read more
Community Resilience as part of Learning for Sustainability
December 9, 2015@EdScotCommRes and #Resilience-Ed are useful Twitter sources of current ideas and thinking for building emergency planning/community resilience into Curriculum for Excellence. Eilidh Soussi, Community Resilience… Read more
Useful HGIOS 4 summary relating to LfS/Outdoor Learning
November 24, 2015Willie White – a colleague from East Ayrshire has collated the statements from HGIOS 4 which are linked to LfS and Outdoor Learning. You can access… Read more
Professional Learning available by Scotdec
November 18, 2015Falkirk practitioners can take advantage of the wide range of continuing professional learning opportunities provided by the Scottish Development in Education Centre for Learning for… Read more
Global Citizenship resources from Inspire Aspire
November 9, 2015Inspire Aspire have new and refreshed project templates for their Global Citizens in the Making programme ready to send to all primary and secondary schools.… Read more
What is Learning for Sustainability?
October 23, 2015Education Scotland defines Learning for sustainability (LfS) as: “an approach to learning, life and work. It enables learners, educators, schools and their wider communities to… Read more
