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Harris Garrard Academy, The Conservation Volunteers, Edible Bus Stop and Davies White Landscape Architects.

Planting for the Planet: repurposing part of the school’s playing field for a small woodland/orchard and getting the students to dig, plant whips, and mulch during the day. We will promote the space as a habitat for nature, as well as outlining the climate adaptation (cooling, SuDS) and air quality benefits.

Forest Gate School

The Big Plant: recycling food waste to create compost which will be used to feed plants in the students' classrooms.

Preston Manor School

Eco Manor Food Growing Garden: Eco Manor students are reimagining the outside spaces in the school for a more sustainable future. Activites will explore idea that food grown in the garden will end up on students' plates. The garden project will also help students to connect with nature and the land.

Grey Court School

Bee Creative Day: a day revolving around extending the students' knowledge of bee-friendly plants and flowers, as well as their germinating process and the positive impact they have on the local environment. Students will be asked to document different wild flowers that they see outside of school, with a wild flower and bee expert giving a talk on the importance of nature and how bees affect our environment.

Clapton Girls Academy

Greenhouse Renovation: the eco committee will renovate the greenhouse to grow vegetables and flowers, and will set up a gardening club.

Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy and The London College of Fashion

Children of the Revolution: exploring activism in response to society, culture and politics in the climate emergency. Exploring new sustainable techniques in fashion craft as interventions (innovation) for purposeful change. Reimagining impact through purposeful communal fashion communication (styling and presentation)

Education Links

Heart and Earth Links: eco-friendly mural workshop led by artist, Alexis Milne, and a workshop on sustainable making led by architect, Matina Theodoropolou.

St Marylebone CE School

Climate Kick-Start Extravaganza: form groups will plant their own seeds, with a competition for the tallest plant. A Greenpeace volunteer will discuss the STEM aspect of climate change and provide context behind the school musical, entitled Urine Town.

George Mitchell School

Food Forests and Our Future. Emission-Free Learning: students will be designing and creating a mural to capture their vision of a sustainable future. Studetns will also create a new edibles bed of herbs and vegetables which can then be used in the canteen alongside a vegetarian week, aiming to reduce the carbon footprint of food used in the school.

Deptford Green School

Upcycling: students will be upcycling old furniture from the local community and creating new planters out of waste plastic.

The Royal Institution and West London Schools

Cleantech Taster: students will hear from scientists working in the field about their work and how they got into their jobs, and also see some exciting and explosive science demonstrations. Students will then see some of the exciting work being done in the clean tech sector, by exploring hands-on examples from innovative companies and researchers working in the sector.

Thomas Tallis School

Remaking, Reusing, Responding: Making Art with the Environment: this series of workshops with Thomas Tallis, Eltham Hill and Parliament Hill Schools will encourage students to think practically about the way we use materials in our artwork and our lives more generally. Students will use scrap materials, old clothes and furniture to create unexpected sculptures and installations that will be captured using photography and video.

Raynes Park High School

Breathe Easy: Monitoring and Improving Air Quality: students will consider the air quality at the school, which is beside two main roads. They will record air quality data using air quality monitors at key points to see the effects of pollution but also review measures the school has put in place to help improve air quality. They will also share their journeys to chool to see how this might be affected by air pollution.

Alperton Community School

Go Green Routes: students will take part in a "cycle to school day" and promote green routes around the school to encourage students to walk, scooter and cycle to school more regularly. The project wants to raise awareness of the issue of climate change in the run-up of COP26 and the need to switch to more sustainable forms of transports to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. There will also be cycle workshops and green route maps to help students.

Broomfield School and Sustrans

Pedal Power: a day of pedal-powered activities, including free bike repairs and cycle skills, a cycle to school service and lots of pedal-powered activities. There will also be a BMX demo and workshop.

Sunnyfields

Pollution-Busting Hedge Planting: the students will be planting a hedge along the perimeter of the school grounds in order to combat the pollution caused by local traffic.

Central Foundation Girls' School

Big Green Week: to increase awareness and action on climate change, there will be a week of events for students, staff and parents, including a green jobs career fair, a smoothie bike and cycle repair workshops for students, staff and parents and five ‘Low Waste Living’ workshops.

St Thomas the Apostle College

Recycling and Zero Waste Cookery Sessions: activities will involve putting in new recycling facilities, posters and signage into the school, and encouraging more waste-free behaviours (such as introducing reusable water bottles). Students will be able to reduce their food waste by taking part in one of the food waste cookery sessions.

Parliament Hill School

Parli Feminist Orchard: students at Parliament Hill will be hosting a special event to launch their feminist orchard, with speeches, tree dedications (to famous feminists chosen by the students) and poetry. It will celebrate the tree planting and food growing initiatives students have initiated as part of the climate action group. There will be assemblies all week as well as film screenings, art workshops and displays to publicise the positive action that the students have taken.

Higham Park School

Climate Kick-Start Recycling: a week of recycling initiatives during form time in the school.

Spa School Camberwell

The Spa Camberwell Recycling Project: a recycling programme and activities focused on using colour coded recycling bins across the school to engage the students, all of whom have forms of autism. Students will help to run and promote the programme.