Education
Sincerely inspirational assemblies and lessons for your school prepared and delivered by Carrie Cort, West Sussex County Council Waste Prevention Advisor, Eco School Assessor, Guinness World Record holder and Climate Reality Leader (trained by Al Gore – An Inconvenient Truth and leading climate change scientists).
Less C02, less plastic, less waste and a lot more awesome!
Carrie, the founder of Sussex Green Living is able to offer free of charge, as part of our “Bright New Futures programme a range of assemblies, lessons and workshops, here are few topics available:
- Visit by our Inspiration Eco Station, a retrofitted 1974 milk float with displays and games
focusing on eco home and garden, kinder clothes and or recycling
- Visit from our Bright New Future Roadshow, learn more here
Or assemblies, classes and workshops in the hall or classrooms on topics such as:
- Upcycling to grow food and give wildlife a home
- Recycle and Recreate for the Planet
- Makers Magic learn how to reuse materials as an art resource
- Love your Clothes and Planet
- Oceans – plastics pollution and solutions
- Videos produced during lockdown one around these topics can be found in our gallery here.
To book a school visit contact Carrie on or call 07768 212833.
Outdoor education
We strongly believe to solve the climate and ecological crisis it is essential people of all ages love and appreciate the planet and natural world. Those learning outdoors develop their creativity, problem-solving, independence, confidence and more. Playing in natural spaces supports a child’s sense of self, allowing children to recognise their independence alongside an interdependence and connectedness with their ecological worlds. So ad hoc we organise outdoor education events and workshops. See a wonderful gallery of happy young people who attended our solar, windturbine and woodworking workshops here.
Join our Youth Eco Forum
In June 2020 we launched our Youth Eco Forum, a weekly Zoom meeting for young people 11+ where they can discuss worries, hopes and share ideas and actions. The group is guided by a Christ’s Hospital School 6th form Eco Ranger Max, who is keen to help develop a meeting place for local young environmentalists to gather, discuss and connect for an hour of planet-friendly chat. Learn more here
You can read the Youth Eco Forums first exciting Ezine here.
Grants for schools
The South Downs National Park offer grants to help schools access environmental education, learn more here.
You will find a list of brilliant environmental education resources, many totally free, for primary and secondary schools here.
TESTIMONIALS
“I wanted to say a huge thank you for bringing the Bright New Future Roadshow to our School and for the fabulous work you all put in to each workshop. You are an amazing group of human beings!
The staff have been saying to me how much they enjoyed yesterday and how the pupils have been feeding back to them about ideas and information they found out from you. One year 3 pupil said it was ‘the best day at school. Ever!’ We will have to work harder now!”
Helen Pugh, PA to the Deputy Head Academic at Bedes Prep School
“A huge thank you for bringing your Bright New Future Roadshow to Bolnore Primary School. The year 2 children had the most inspiring, educational and fun day learning about the looking after the environment. The children have continued to say “can we do this again tomorrow?” which is the biggest compliment! The day was full of engaging activities and most importantly, had a strong message (small steps to a greener planet). The children loved the mobile woodland theatre and enjoyed performing their own songs and stories. They also enjoyed learning about food chains and seeing the many items from the woodland you brought with you. We loved the carousel of activities such as learning about eco houses and gardens from the float display. It was lovely to finish the day with a woodland walk, a song and a story. This day was incredibly memorable and we loved spending the day outside! Thank you”.
From Jess Blanch, Year 2 teacher at Bolnore School
“Carrie is a passionate speaker on environmental issues and we were exceptionally lucky to have her visit us at school. She somehow managed to engage children from different age groups – from nine years old to fourteen – as she taught us about various green topics such as the plague of plastics, environmental pollution and the importance of our oceans. Carrie’s enthusiasm for all things ecological was really inspiring and she maintained everyone’s interest by continually asking questions and challenging what we thought we knew about the future of this planet. She also described the ways to reduce our impact on the environment, from recycling to buying sustainably to reusing. We were taught about the impact that we, as human beings, have on the planet, but also about the differences that we can make on an individual level.
After the presentation, Carrie held an interactive workshop with just the Junior Eco Club and me, along with our headmistress, and how we as a school can start improving things ourselves and campaigning on green issues. It certainly feels as though her visit has provided the school with firmer and hopefully long lasting foundations on which to build a wider consciousness of climate change and its impact on everyone and everything on earth. Since the visit, I know that the Junior School has improved its environmental-based curriculum in line with Carrie’s mission to educate young people”.
From Flora from Our Lady of Sion Junior School and now an active member of our Youth Eco Forum
Other testimonials can be read here.