Student teachers must:

• Embrace locally and globally the educational and social values of sustainability, equality and justice and recognise the rights and responsibilities of future as well as current generations.
• Value as well as respect social, cultural and ecological diversity and promote the principles and practices of local and global citizenship for all learners.
• Demonstrate a commitment to engaging learners in real world issues to enhance learning experiences and outcomes, and to encourage learning our way to a better future.

 (Standard for Provisional Registration with GTCS, benchmark 1.1)

During your eight serial days, you should gather this information, by observing, speaking to class teachers and other colleagues, interacting with learners, reading school policies, and any other appropriate activities.  You should consider and identify the most appropriate ways(s) to record this information.

Mapping of school grounds/area. 

 Evidence of existing engagement with sustainable education within the school such as garden area, recycling bins, litter picking ‘wardens’, bird boxes, and so on.

• Recycling bins in every classroom.
• Primary 7 children empty the bins at the end of every day.
• Garden area in the playground.
• Gardening club meet up once a week and this is organised by a classroom assistant.
• The school have one eco-flag.
• Litter picking wardens are on duty every break and lunch time.

 Consideration of actual play space for children and its suitability.

• Wooden apparatus park available to use for the children.
• Hopscotch on the school ground areas.
• Football goal posts.
• Benches in the playground.
• Large grass area.

Discussion with children on these aspects of sustainable education.

Having spoken to some children in the class about recycling they just see recycling in the classroom part of their routine now because they are so used to doing it which is good to hear as they told me that they recycle paper at home as well. The gardening club is a voluntary after-school club which is led by one of the classroom assistants and talking to one of the pupils who is part of this group she told me how much she enjoys it because it is something different and she likes planting different plants and tidying up the garden and she gets to work with her friends who are in different classes. The litter picking wardens are on duty every day and they enjoy making sure the playground is clean and they are praised for giving up their own time to help tidy their school grounds.