Climate action and building upgrades workshop

Aims

The Department for Education has stated that by 2025, all settings will: 

Create a Climate Action Plan: A comprehensive strategy that details how a school will work to decarbonise and improve its energy efficiency in line with achieving the UK’s net zero goals.

Appoint a sustainability lead: The role of the sustainability lead is to drive forward both action and awareness for the school. Driving forward the Climate Action Plan, build community engagement, and support the integration of sustainability into the curriculum.

The sustainability lead/s can be teaching staff, SLT or governors.

We are working with our schools to make them more sustainable and resilient to climate change. As part of this process we are encouraging, funding and delivering projects to minimise emissions and energy use from school buildings and adapting schools to the impacts of climate change, such as heatwaves and floods.

Following the success of our first workshop, we are hosting a further day of support for schools to develop Climate Action Plans and learn more about upgrading your buildings from experts from Let's Go Zero and RAFT (Retrofit Action for Tomorrow)

The session is designed for any staff members with an interest in delivering climate action and improving school buildings, this includes site managers, sustainability leads, governors and SLT. 

Summary

We'll be holding two workshops throughout the day, with attendees invited to attend both. 

The Let's Go Zero workshop will focus on developing Climate Action Plans, recommended for sustainability leads and staff members leading on climate action and sustainability.

RAFT will lead a workshop focused on what you can do to upgrade your buildings, including low cost improvements and energy saving measures. This workshop would be recommended for site managers, business managers and other staff with a working knowledge of the school site.

Register for the workshop here