Sustainability
Learning for Sustainability – Love our Planet
Newark Hill Academy acknowledges the importance of pedagogy of place learning and pupils are facilitated to use the academy’s enriched environmental area. We also believe it is important to teach the children from a very young age the connection between their learning and the outside environment – local, national and global.
We challenge our pupils to live sustainably and to love our planet. We give children the opportunity to explore their natural environment and learn how it is affected by how we live our lives. Children develop a range of skills and find new ways of solving problems and find solutions to help sustain our planet.
We ensure happiness and health by allowing pupils to explore and interact with the outdoors, giving them opportunities to connect with nature and learn about the natural world, which not only develops their knowledge and understanding of the world, but also helps their well-being and resilience.
We inspire children to look for positive ways they can contribute to our planet and ensure its survival. Pupils learn how their actions can shape the future of our world and how even small changes to the way they live their lives can have a big impact.
We equip our pupils with Lifelong Learning about nature, the environment, living sustainably and having a positive impact on the world. Pupils can use this knowledge to support them when making decisions in the future about how to care for our planet.
We encourage diversity in exploring ecosystems all around the world and learn how we can make changes to help different parts of the world survive and thrive.
Apart from using the school environment as a tool for teaching and learning, the curriculum is tailored to make children aware of the importance of a sustainable world. The aim is to achieve this by enabling pupils to make links between the topic they are learning with the real world, through research and what they see, feel and experience. Learning for sustainability educates pupils of how events in the past impacts and has effects on their present and how our present actions could shape the future of our world.
At Newark Hill Academy, an effective whole school and community approach to Learning for sustainability weaves together global citizenship, sustainable development education and outdoor learning with the emphasis based upon responding to and empathising with our natural resources to create a coherent, meaningful and rewarding learning experience.
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Our Sustainability Coordinator is Mrs Auffret