Our Key Principles

• All curriculum subjects provide the opportunity to learn about the environment and sustainable development. For some subjects, particularly geography and science, the requirement to do so is already embedded across key stages, but many opportunities exist for other subject areas to play a part in fostering environmental concern in learners. Non-subject based areas of study such as PSHE and Citizenship, offer important opportunities for the exploration of environmental and sustainability issues in cross-curricular contexts.
  
• Effective environmental education requires well-organised and resourced, first-hand experiences in real contexts as young people need to experience the environment directly and learn through that experience and their enjoyment of it. It is only by raising awareness in this way that learners can begin to value what they see, and develop a personal commitment.
• Environmental Education and Sustainable Development Education also have significant roles to play in promoting effective teaching and learning in schools and colleges, and in so doing raising standards and levels of achievement. They embrace ideas and concepts that are topical, that stimulate the interest and motivation of young people, and that are clearly seen to be relevant to the present and future of all of us.