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HAPPEN School Health Network

All Wales Resources

Environment

1 - Keep Wales Tidy- Eco Schools

Project aim

Keep Wales Tidy firmly believes that its Eco-Schools programme inspires and empowers pupils
to be leaders of change in their communities and widens learning beyond the classroom to
develop responsible attitudes and commitment, both at home and in the wider community.

The Eco-Schools programme (now the largest ESD programme in the world, run in 60
countries) is an action based learning model; pupil-led, with an adult co-ordinator. It
highlights the importance of actively involving the wider community in the work.

It provides a structure which acts as a vehicle for delivering environmental education, and
also provides the learners with the real life experiences of influencing their school’s impact
on the environment. It’s the pupils who drive the changes and monitor the results, providing
them with a clear sense of action and consequence.

Those actions; through participation, campaigns, active communication and activity days,
makes the learning experience much more meaningful than simply learning about the theory
alone and makes environmental awareness and action a full part of the life and ethos of the
school.