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Part of the aim of the Eco
Schools programme that we are following is to raise general awareness of the
Eco Group's environmental activities - throughout the school and in the
community - and to make sure that as many people as possible get a chance to
take part. Actions should not just be confined to the school - for example,
pupils can take home ideas to put into practice at home.
One of the best ways of involving a wider audience is to organise a regular,
school-wide Day of Action. A Day of Action is an opportunity for everyone in
the school - pupils, teachers and non-teaching staff - to get together to
work towards achieving some of the targets set out in the action plan. In a
school the size of Ringwood (1500 pupils), it would be very difficult to
involve the entire school on one day. We therefore chose one year group,
Year 9, at a time when there was time available, late in the summer term.
Days of Action, such as this, need planning; both to allocate
responsibilities and to make sure everyone knows about them.
Our Eco and Fair trade
Day took plenty of planning. It involved 18 members of staff, from a dozen
different subject areas; it involved fourteen visitors, several of whom were
speakers, and it involved fifteen Year 12 students.
Year 9 students have
participated in a Fair Trade Day as part of Citizenship during the past
three years. Several of the students who have been involved in that day have
been sufficiently inspired to want to go further, and they have joined the
EcoSchools groups for precisely that reason. This year, the two areas of
Fair Trade and environmental sustainability combined forces to form one
highly successful day. In addition, there was a fresh challenge: to persuade
Ringwood town council that Ringwood should become a Fair Trade town.
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