Sustainability
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The Big Reveal of Year 5's Climate-Proof buildings of the future!
Year 5 have been working with a charity called Climate Change All Change that matches designers with primary schools to help children understand how design can mitigate some of the effects of climate change on our future lives. Year 5 spent 6 weeks designing the elevations, sections and plans of a community centre in Hackney Marshes with architects Georgia Trower and Jamie Harrington.
They then presented their designs to a team of professional architects, before Georgia and Jamie took them away to create final rendered drawings of what the future buildings could look like. Georgia and Jamie then presented us with the rendered drawings at a special celebration, putting our designs on display at Acrilycize at the Art House. The renders really brought our designs to life and were so impressive to see - we were amazed at how our imaginations had been brought to life! We really hope that some of these buildings will be built one day!
London Fields achieved the Green Flag Award, with Distinction!
We are proud to announce that our school has been awarded the Green Flag Award with Distinction! This internationally recognised award is part of the Eco-Schools programme, which celebrates schools that are committed to environmental awareness and sustainability. Achieving the award with distinction means we have gone above and beyond in our efforts to care for the environment and involve our school school community.
A huge well done to our amazing Eco Team for their hard work and passion, which made this award possible!
Save our oceans!
This term we have been learning about continents and oceans in Geography. After exploring the human processes which are affecting our oceans, in our final lesson we made posters to raise awareness about these issues and suggested possible solutions to ease the problems.
Sustainability at London Fields Primary
Promoting sustainable living and learning about the global climate crisis is a priority at London Fields.
We promote a sustainable ethos through all areas of school life. We are working to reduce the use of single-use plastics by having our own line of reusable London Fields water bottles and we have run campaigns both in and outside school to highlight this issue. We have been lucky enough to receive funding for a 'living wall' in our Sheep Lane playground which is designed to reduce air pollution in the school grounds. We have worked closely with The Garden Classroom, a charity who provides urban children and adults with transformative outdoor experiences devised to encourage active lifestyles, promotes self-discover, inspire growth and stimulate respect for nature, and are continuing to develop the depth of our curriculum through a focus on Climate Change and Sustainability in-line with the DFE Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy.
Our Eco Team
The Eco Team supports the school to promote sustainable living. They meet weekly and work on different environmental projects to improve the school and local area. They are responsible for sharing information with their classes. Some of the projects that the Eco Team have taken part in over the past few years are: planting trees donated by the Woodland Trust in honour of the King’s coronation, planting wildflower seed to attract pollinators to our Edible Playground, working with Hackney Council to conduct a waste audit of our school and implementing ways to reduce our overall waste, teaming up with Hackney Council and the Chewing Gum Task force to improve the appearance of the surrounding area, and encouraging pupils in the school to try to eat more fruit and vegetables with a fantastic tomato tasting experience for all year groups! Our Eco Team are also our sustainability champions, who continue to promote our Sustainability Mission: To meet our needs without hurting the world. As a school, after working closely with The Garden Classroom, we have identified five key problems we all need to address. These were:
- Energy
- Water
- Travel
- Purchase Power
- Waste
- Think global
- Act local
- Get involved
Edible Playground
At London Fields, all pupils have the opportunity to be involved in growing food in our purpose-built Edible Playground. Learning to cook is a crucial life skill that enables pupils to feed themselves and others affordably and well, now and later in life. We believe that instilling a love of growing food and gardening in pupils will enable pupils to have knowledge and understanding of where their food comes from and how we can reduce food miles and look after the environment by growing our own or buying locally produced food where possible. Curriculum links are made with Science to support pupils understanding of how plants grow and how compost is made. Gardening allows pupils to develop practical life skills, practise mindfulness whilst getting their hands dirty!
