Student Voice 2022/23: Sustainability

Sustainability

For 2022/23 our students have decided to focus on Sustainability.

Key events

  • Friday 14th October – Teacher Training – for teachers who will be supporting students with their projects (up to 3 per school).
  • Thursday 24th November – Student Conference (years 10 & 12, 5 per school)
  • Spring term – student-led sustainability projects
  • Wednesday 24th May – Project celebration event

Student Voice Projects

At the Student Voice Sustainability Conference we split into four groups and each proposed a project to address an issue of sustainability.

Group 1 Waste Less

  • Alleyn’s
  • Kingsdale Foundation School
  • St Saviour’s & St Olave’s

We want to increase the recycling in our schools by educating people and having clearer labels on bins.

Please use this PowerPoint Presentation to run an assembly in your school.

or download the individual elements here:

https://youtu.be/uiZehtVugy4

Group 2 Sustainable Cookery Club

  • Dulwich College
  • Harris Boys Academy East Dulwich (HBAED)

We want to start sustainable cooking clubs in our schools, each club will run for six weeks.

Learn more about what we plan to deliver in the slides below.

We’ve started the club at HBAED. Read our news article here.

Group 3 Foodbanks in our Community

  • Ark Globe Academy
  • The Charter School East Dulwich
  • St Michael’s Catholic College

We want to raise awareness of food banks and to encourage school communities to make donations.

Please use these slides and video to raise awareness of the food waste problem and of Food Banks

Then use this action plan to raise donations for your nearest Food bank.

Group 4 The Re-Project

  • Compass School Southwark
  • James Allen’s Girls’ School

We want to stop clothes & books being sent to landfill by coordinating thrift events.

Use this presentation to get ideas on how to run ‘swap’ events in your school.

Take a look at how we evaluated our events, and get more ideas for future activities.

Student Voice Sustainability Conference

Thursday 24th November, 15Hatfields
9am-4pm

Each SSLP school was invited to bring a total of 5 students to this conference. Students were in years 10 and/or 12. In the morning we heard from guest speakers and in the afternoon we worked in groups to identify challenges in our own communities and to propose a solution to one of these. We will continue working together during the spring term to develop our ideas, launching our solutions in May.

Conference Resources

Guest Speakers

London Wildlife Trust – Biodiversity: benefits, threats and how to help.

Bobbi Benjamin-Wand was a London Wildlife Trust Keeping it Wild trainee and youth board member. After completing her traineeship she held a position as a ranger at Walthamstow Wetlands before returning to the Youth Programmes team as a Youth Delivery Officer. She has a passion for connecting young people from backgrounds typically underrepresented in the sector to wildlife and loves learning about the positive impacts nature can have on young people’s mental health and wellbeing.

Fiona McGain has a background in teaching but wanted to combine her passion of working with young people and her love of nature. She first got involved with London Wildlife Trust as a volunteer before joining the team full time as an Outdoor Learning Officer. Getting young people from a wide variety of backgrounds engaged with and excited about nature is her favourite part of the job. Fiona loves learning about all the invertebrate life found in London and the important ecosystem roles they play.

OddBox – Food waste, a climate issue.

Heather Lynch is the Head of Impact and Sustainability for Oddbox and leads their work to drive more action on food waste and to raise awareness of the impact of food waste on the planet and works to embed impact across the business to do good for people and the planet. Oddbox is a UK fruit and vegetable box that tackles food waste. They rescue odd and surplus produce that was at risk of going to waste and deliver it to people’s homes.

We are grateful to the Department for Education and a private donor for the funding of this project, now in its third year.