The future belongs to the young, and right now that future is an increasingly uncertain place. Our aim is to provide students of all ages with some of the knowledge, understanding, and skills to help them navigate that future with resilience, confidence and wisdom. We want to empower them to make planet-friendly choices themselves, and to be able to amplify their voices in explaining those choices to those around them. Our sessions are age-appropriate and focused on solutions, but also highly engaging and, dare we say it, fun!

Schools assemblies and workshops

We offer Key Stage 2 workshops and accompanying primary school assemblies on a number of environmental education themes. These are free of charge for schools, made possible with funding from the South Downs National Park Authority and further supported by a team of wonderful volunteers. All our school facilitators have previous experience of working within schools, and all hold an Enhanced DBS check.  Our safeguarding policy is here.  If you are interested in finding out more you can complete the form below or email [email protected]. 

Workshops

We have a number of two-hour, class-based workshops to offer this academic year for Key Stage 2. Each include a session of interactive learning about the topic followed by a creative period encouraging the children to find ways to share the knowledge they now have by creating their own posters, poems, slogans, artwork to take home or display at school. Workshops can be paired with wider school assemblies. 

Biodiversity workshop 

We explore what biodiversity means, why it matters and how the natural world is under threat. We then go on to look at what positive actions we can take to protect the biodiversity around us. Sessions for all age groups have an outdoor element wherever possible. 

• lower KS2 - focus on listing habitats around the school and in our gardens and how we can protect them  
• upper KS2 - focus on a hedgerow survey in school and explore why hedges are one of our biodiversity “superheroes”  

Transport and Travel workshop 

We identify the impacts on the planet of different types of transport, but also, for older pupils, the benefits of travel for understanding other cultures and ways of life.  We then look at how we can minimise the environmental impact of our individual travel and how we can make smart consumer choices that help minimise transport. 

Water workshop 

We examine how much water it takes to make 'things', and that a water 'footprint' might go further that you would expect. We explore ways we can reduce our water footprints by making simple changes to our lives.

Healthy Seas workshop 

This includes biodiversity, but also other benefits of the ocean; threats to it and how we can take action to protect our seas.  

 
Carbon workshop 

We look at the role of CO2 in climate change; the carbon footprint of 'things' and how we can make better choices armed with this knowledge.

Waste workshop

This workshop looks at the impact of waste on the environment and explores how we can reduce waste in our everyday lives - food, clothes and other consumables.  We examine the principles of refuse, re-use, recycle and repair.

Extreme Weather workshop 

Our newest workshop looks at the extreme weather patterns that the world is now facing.  We recall our own experiences of extreme weather over the summer and try to work out what we as individuals can do become more resilient to our changing climate. 

Assemblies

Our primary school assemblies on the above topics can currently be booked alongside our Key Stage 2 workshops. They can be delivered to the whole school or to separate Key Stages, depending on what’s most suitable for your school size and class organisation.  

Useful Resources

This has been done with the help of SDNP, whose own Climate Action Hub has a much wider range. If you are outside the Petersfield area, the South Downs Climate Action Map is useful to find an alternative local climate action group you might link with.

To keep up to date, we encourage you to sign up to the SDNP Education Newsletter and keep an eye on the SDNP Learning Hub .

If you are at the very start of your School Sustainability journey, useful starting points are the MEE Whole School Journey pages and getting in touch with the Climate Action Advisers at Let’s Go Zero or your local Climate Ambassador.