Why work

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Why work at waste in school? RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
IN EDUCATION Martin Allman BSc (Hons),
PGCE Waste Education Officer martin.allman_at_cumbria
cc.gov.uk
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• Why work at waste in school?
• Waste and the National Curriculum
• Sustainable Schools
• The 3Rs, the 3As and the 3 Is
• Education for Sustainable Development
• Barriers
• Potential solutions
• Our offer

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• Justification
• Sector produces 615,117 tonnes of waste per year
  
• (Waste Watch, 2005)
• WRAP estimate 71kg per person per year
• If sector had a LATS target ? CCC, LATS fine
  68million (in Cumbria c. 571,000 or c.5.4 of
  schools budget)
• Main resource paper 1 tonne ? 17 mature trees
• Expenditure
• National Curriculum
• Sustainable Schools

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• The 3 Rs
• Reduction simply make LESS waste, take LESS
  space
• Reuse find ways to give waste a second life
• Recycling collect for reprocessing

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• The 3 As
• Attendance via a wider, more engaging
  educational offer
• Attention interactive T L via real life
  contexts
• Attainment matching T L to an evolving
  curriculum

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• The 3 Is
• Interest new contexts, stories that link
  learning to life
• Inclusion we all make waste, we can all do
  something about it
• Infrastructure the means to take action, the
  potential for an integrated education/service
  offer

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• Waste and Education for Sustainable Development
  (ESD)
• Simple stories for complex issues the coke
  can, the carrier bag
• A Gateway to the Global Dimension people,
  places and products
• S3 tool contributing to OFSTED Self Evaluation
  Form (SEF)

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• Barriers
• How schools waste is classified chargeable
  household waste often collected as commercial,
  not household
• Financial pay as you throw!
• Resource constraints congested curriculum,
  staffing, knowledge skills

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• Potential Solutions
• Reduction less waste means less need for waste
  management (inc. recycling its NOT the
  answer!)
• Work smarter better procurement, better
  practice (take it back/home), extra and
  infra-curricula offer
• Partnership between schools, community and the
  waste industry

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• Our offer
• Direct tuition visits from waste mngmnt
  officers/industry
• INSET twilight sessions for teaching and
  non-teaching staff
• Incentive schemes RR4S, Scrap Arts looking
  into others
• Forming partnerships schools, the community,
  the industry
• Consultancy advice, guidance, research,
  signposting
• Support Eco Schools etc, T L Resources,
  funding bids

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Why work at waste in school? Martin Allman,
Waste Education Officer martin.allman_at_cumbriacc.go
v.uk
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Schools Expenditure
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Source Waste Watch, 2005 after BESA
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• National Curriculum
• Where waste fits
• Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
  (DfES/NC, 1999)
• enables pupils to develop the knowledge,
  skills, understanding and values to participate
  in decisions about the way we do things
  individually and collectively, both locally and
  globally, that will improve the quality of life
  now without damaging the planet for the future
  opportunities for pupils to develop their
  understanding (exist) in
• Geography
• Science
• Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)
• Citizenship
• Activities also create links to Mathematics,
  English, DT, Art

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Sustainable Schools "Every school should be an
environmentally sustainable school, with an
active and effective recycling policy (moving
from paper to electronic processes wherever
possible) and a school garden or other
opportunities for children to explore the natural
world. Schools must teach our children by example
as well as by instruction."
Tony Blair, Prime Minister, Sept 2004. Useful
website http//www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainables
chools/
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