I have recently been battling to get the ideals of our schools eco-commitee (which I am am keen member of) communicated out to our wider school community. I follow the protocalls and send the information to the correct pastioral leads who then may or may not share with the respective tutor group teachers, who then may or many not share with their students. As is no suprise this is an imperfect system. For the recent “Cut your carbon” campaign I had to extrapolate the limited feedback I received to the whole school response – which is a fix and not that credible. I think every school should be putting a response to the needs of our environment front and centre. Every school update should highlight those needs, every school decission should be informed and every teaaching moment should try to incorporate that requirement.

So on the back of this I have been looking I have been looking at school mission statements/ visions. I have seen a number of examples stating a school should be “preparing every student to thrive in their futures as articulate, confident and social responsible individuals.” Now all I am saying is that if we want out students to have these magical futures we need to be showing them now what it is to be socially responsible and make sure all our actions (as a school) really do provide them with a future that is cool enough.