Continuing Professional Development
Do you want to use your school grounds more and just need some guidanc
e to know where to start? Do you want to become more sustainable but need some motivation to achieve it? These courses can be delivered in your school as day courses, or shorter twilight sessions.
Mr Chris Munt, Headteacher, Shooters Grove Primary School, Sheffield:
The training you provided was the best I have participated in during 7 years in Sheffield. The atmosphere you created was warm and inclusive, and the ideas and suggestions were practical, exciting and supportive of the core curriculum. There was both humour and purpose. The opportunity to participate in constructive activities was a huge bonus despite the cold weather. For us coming on the day after our OFSTED inspection it was also as good a tonic as any GP could prescribe! I think the quality of such training is seen in the degree to which staff take up the ideas and content of the training. The wellies have hardly had a chance to dry out!
Integrating Learning outside the classroom into your whole curriculum
Your grounds can be used for so much more than PE! This training offers quick activities around maths, literacy, art, history and much more. It gives opportunities to discuss how you can adapt your current curriculum to go beyond your four walls more often, either into your grounds or further afield.
Creating school grounds to enhance student development This course provides participants with a rationale for developing their school grounds, to look at the process involved involving the whole school or integrating into the curriculum, and to develop ideas for their own project.
Embedding Education for Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development (SD) is not just about energy and the environment. We will look at ways to integrate SD into existing curricula topics, or to develop creative curriculum topics around Sustainable Schools, enhancing community cohesion at a local and global dimension.
Becoming a sustainable school
This course aims to look at the need to become a sustainable school, and the processes involved in auditing and developing an action plan. It also aims to raise awareness of current schemes, funding and awards.
Saving money whilst saving the environment
Learn how to make simple changes to the management of your building and the people who use it to save money, whilst reducing your carbon footprint.
Running a school growing project
Growing our their own food is a great way to develop students understanding of food production. This course provide participants with a rationale for creating a growing project in your grounds, to look at including students at all stages of the project and how to maintain momentum. It can be delivered at various levels from total beginners to those who want to get the most of existing gardens.
Species Identification in your school grounds (primary and secondary level)
This course aims to build confidence in identifying species living in your grounds, and a look at basic sampling/capturing techniques that can be used in your lessons.
Teaching life processes and living things in the outdoors (primary and secondary level)
This course develops confidence in teaching life processes using your school grounds - including basic ecological understanding, sampling, identification, presenting data (and statistics for secondary level).