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Commitment to sustainable development
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Do the CPD activity on
sustainable development to
develop shared thinking on sustainable development. Come up
with a school policy. Undertake a joint pupil, staff and community
project to promote sustainable development - what about greening
a derelict area, or making an organic school garden?
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Try these ideas for staff and pupils to promote biodiversity
in the school grounds:
- grow a range of different plants and shrubs - vegetables,
fruit, herbs and flowers - whatever is possible
- put up bird boxes and bat boxes
- grow plants, shrubs and trees which attract butterflies, such
as lavender, buddleia, nettles
- provide as many different habitats as possible - for example,
a pond, a damp area, an uncultivated area for wild plants, a
meadow, trees
- avoid using pesticides or weedkillers - try alternative methods
of pest control for the produce, and set up a gardening club
for help with weeding and propagating.
Three Scottish primary schools in Sutherland are engaged in
a UK-wide Global Footprints project to establish good
practice indicators to assess how 'heavily' we tread on our
planet. This has meant bringing issues of sustainable development
into popular school topics such as food, energy and transport.
A link has also been established with a Peruvian primary school,
and work done to compare local and global issues which are of
importance to each school.
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