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About One Planet Schools

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Imagine a school where everyone cares – about themselves, each other, and about the planet; now and in the future. Now imagine a school where this caring touches everything it does – what and how pupils learn; how the school manages its physical environment and resources; how staff and pupils relate to each other; how they work with their local community – and how they reach out to the wider world.

What you are imagining is a ‘ One Planet School’: a place committed to reducing its impact on the planet here and now; a place which prepares young people to act as drivers for sustainability in the future; a place with a vision of how people and nature can live in harmony, on a thriving, green planet.

This is the vision behind WWF’s One Planet Schools® programme – a programme which strives to reach out towards the 10.3 million highly influential young people who enter our schools five days a week, 40 weeks of the year.


Green Ambassadors

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The WWF and BT Green Ambassador Scheme is a new offering to primary schools. It aims to encourage a new generation of sustainability champions and provides everything you need to set up or reinvigorate your school's green team. There are free school kits and help from BT's Education volunteers! Help your pupils to make a change. Register now!


Learn

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Learn, WWF’s free poster resource for schools, provides inspiring and thought-provoking ideas every term to help you and your pupils start thinking about topical environmental issues. The resource includes a poster image and quote, key questions, stimulus activity ideas and background information


A musical adventure

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WWF has a proud history of producing musicals for schools. Through partnerships with leading musical publishers and composers, we have been responsible for the production of over eight school musicals which have been performed by thousands of people right across the world. These cover issues from rainforest destruction, marine pollution, fair trade and loss of habitats.


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One Planet Schools® is about ‘hearts and minds’: it's about...

  • Building understanding and skills
  • Exploring values and attitudes
  • Offering tools, resources, and activities
  • Facilitating discussion
  • Encouraging action.

 

Find out more... Watch our One Planet Schools® film