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27 October 2022

Pupil voice, participation and sustainability newsletters

Each half term we produce a Pupil voice, participation and sustainability bulletin for schools. This bulletin contains lots of useful information, updates, links and training information that may be of use to professionals working in schools and settings with a focus on climate education, sustainability, improving pupil voice and participation in your setting as well as other essential updates.

 

This is also available to be sent directly to your inbox if you have an account on our Leeds for Learning website. 

10 December 2021

Dfe assured funded senior mental health lead training with Leeds City Council.

Have you applied for your senior lead mental heath training grant?

'The Department for Education (DfE) is offering a £1,200 grant for a senior member of school or college staff to access quality assured training to implement an effective whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing in your setting. Grants of £1,200 will be available to eligible state schools and colleges in England in the 2024 to 2025 financial year. This is part of the government’s commitment to offer this training to all eligible schools and colleges by 2025.
The grant is provided to cover (or contribute to) the cost of attending a quality assured course and may also be used to hire supply staff whilst leads are engaged in learning.' (www.gov.uk)

We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in bidding to become a DfE quality assured course provider.

The 'Developing a whole school approach to leading mental health in your school' programme will be available to all schools in the Yorkshire and Humber region and is aimed at leaders in school who are familiar with the role and / or have 'completed limited senior mental health leadership training' already.

If you are unsure if this level of training will be right for you please do get in touch for a chat. 

Read the full article to find out more about our offer to schools in the Yorkshire and Humber region. 

11 December 2020

Landmark report - UK can make major cuts to carbon emissions more cheaply than previously thought.

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) in its report ‘The Sixth Carbon Budget The UK’s path to Net Zero’ says that, for less than 1% of national wealth, the UK can reduce 78% of emissions by 2035, based on 1990 levels.
06 October 2020

Solving plastic pollution – Sir David Attenborough and Dame Ellen MacArthur.

Solutions to tackle plastic pollution are within reach so we can avoid a future in which there are more plastic than fish in our oceans.
02 October 2020

Attenborough smashes Jennifer Aniston's Instagram record!

Sir David Attenborough has broken Jennifer Aniston's record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on Instagram. At 94 years old, the naturalist's follower count raced to seven figures in 4 hrs 44 mins on Thursday, according to Guinness World Records.
18 September 2020

UN’s Global Biodiversity Outlook report.

The fifth edition of the UN’s Global Biodiversity Outlook report, published by the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), provides an authoritative overview of the state of nature worldwide.
18 September 2020

Extinction - the Facts

With a million species at risk of extinction, David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, including putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases.
17 July 2020

Climate Change Lessons - Leeds DEC

To access the lessons please go to: https://leedsdec.co.uk/climate-action-vm/
14 July 2020

Children and young people with long term medical/mental health conditions in Leeds schools.

In September 2018 Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in partnership with Leeds City Council held the ‘In Your Shoes’ conference for young people with long term conditions with the aim of seeking a better understanding of the needs of young people in order to better support them.
08 July 2020

Leeds School Uniform Exchange

Zero Waste Leeds are launching Leeds School Uniform Exchange to open up the opportunity for people across our city to donate, buy, sell or swap school uniform.
22 June 2020

Greta Thunberg: Climate change 'as urgent' as coronavirus

The world needs to learn the lessons of coronavirus and treat climate change with similar urgency says Greta Thunberg. That means the world acting "with necessary force", the Swedish climate activist says in an exclusive interview with BBC News. She doesn't think any "green recovery plan" will solve the crisis alone and says that the world is now passing a "social tipping point" on climate and issues such as Black Lives Matter.
15 June 2020

Energy Savng School challenge - Rising to the Energy Challenge.

The Energy Saving Trust has recently launched the Energy Saving Schools Challenge. This exciting new initiative aims to inform, inspire and empower secondary school students to reduce their energy use and help the UK reach Net Zero by 2050.
27 January 2020

Climate change: Teaching the truth of natural disasters

Schools must prepare young people for the consequences of climate change, says international aid charity.