Eco-Schools
What is Eco-Schools?
Eco-Schools empowers students to be the change our sustainable world needs by engaging them in fun, action-orientated learning. As one of five programmes of the Foundation for Environmental Education, it engages more than 11 million students in 50 countries.
How Does it Work?
Children are the driving force behind Eco-Schools – they lead an eco-committee and help carry out an audit to assess the environmental performance of their school. Through consultation with the rest of the school and the wider community it is the pupils that decide which environmental themes they want to address and how they are going to do so through education and activities. Measuring and monitoring is also an integral part of the Eco-Schools programme, providing schools with the evidence they need to really shout about their environmental success.
Schools work through a seven-step methedology towards the prestigious Green Flag award, which symbolises excellence in the field of environmental activity.
For more information visit http://www.eco-schools.org