Sustainability Plan
What is Climate Change?
The dictionary definition is: A change in global or regional acclimate patterns, in particular a change apparent from mod to late 20th Century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.
There are many factors that can make the Earth warmer and colder including:
greenhouse gases caused by human activity,
deforestation, where more than half of the world’s surface has been ploughed and paved,
ozone layer trapping heat closer to the Earth’s surface
different types of air pollution which have different effects on the atmosphere.
'The challenge of climate change is formidable. For children and young people to meet it with determination, and not with despair, we must offer them not just truth, but also hope. Learners need to know the truth about climate change – through knowledge-rich education. They must also be given the hope that they can be agents of change, through hands-on activity and, as they progress, through guidance and programmes allowing them to pursue a green career pathway in their chosen field'. (DFE 2023).
What can we do?
The DFE has called on all education sectors to create a sustainability climate action plan to show how we, as a school community, can support national and international initiatives which are aimed at protecting the world through direct climate action. At Hade edge Junior, Infant and Nursery School, we have an important role to play in this, particularly reducing our environmental footprint to work towards net zero and giving all our children, young people and adults the knowledge and skills to thrive in the green economy and to help restore nature.
Please click the file below to see our sustainability Plan.