The Eight Doorways
The National Framework details what schools need to do to become sustainable schools, there are eight ‘doorways’ through which schools may choose to initiate or extend their sustainable school activity. It focuses on ways in which sustainable development can be embedded into whole school management practices and provides practical guidance to help schools operate in a more sustainable way.
The Global Citizenship Project, an initiative of Tzedek, has created teaching resources for the ‘eight doorways’. These can be downloaded on-line here. The Jewish Council for Racial Equality has also contributed to these resources.
1. Food and Drink
By 2020 the government would like all schools to be offering and promoting healthy, local and sustainable food and drink, produced on site (where possible), with strong commitments to the environment, social responsibility and animal welfare, and with increased opportunity to involve local suppliers.
(For Keystage 1 and Keystage 2)
2. Energy and Water
By 2020 the government would like all schools to have minimised their carbon emissions by becoming exemplars of energy efficiency and renewable energy, showcasing wind, solar, bio-fuel and other appropriate energy sources in their communities. Furthermore, the government would like all schools to have minimised their use of freshwater by becoming exemplars of sustainable water management, showcasing freshwater conservation, rainwater use, and other water conservation measures in their communities.
By 2020 the government would like all schools to have minimised their carbon emissions by becoming exemplars of energy efficiency and renewable energy, showcasing wind, solar, bio-fuel and other appropriate energy sources in their communities. Furthermore, the government would like all schools to have minimised their use of freshwater by becoming exemplars of sustainable water management, showcasing freshwater conservation, rainwater use, and other water conservation measures in their communities.
(For Keystage 1 and Keystage 2)
3. Travel and Traffic
By 2020 the government would like all schools to be models of sustainable travel where vehicles are used only when absolutely necessary and facilities for healthier, less polluting or less dangerous modes of transport are exemplary.
By 2020 the government would like all schools to be models of sustainable travel where vehicles are used only when absolutely necessary and facilities for healthier, less polluting or less dangerous modes of transport are exemplary.
Further details and resources click here.
4. Purchasing and Waste
By 2020 the government would like all schools to be models of resource efficiency by using low impact goods from local suppliers that minimise (or eliminate) packaging and that are produced with high environmental and ethical standards, and by recycling, repairing and reusing as much as possible.
By 2020 the government would like all schools to be models of resource efficiency by using low impact goods from local suppliers that minimise (or eliminate) packaging and that are produced with high environmental and ethical standards, and by recycling, repairing and reusing as much as possible.
(For Keystage 1 and Keystage 2)
(For Keystage 2 and Keystage 3)
5. Buildings and Grounds
By 2020 the government would like all schools buildings and grounds to be regarded as living, learning places where pupils see what a sustainable lifestyle means through their involvement in the continual improvement of the school estate.
By 2020 the government would like all schools buildings and grounds to be regarded as living, learning places where pupils see what a sustainable lifestyle means through their involvement in the continual improvement of the school estate.
(For Keystage 1, 2 and 3)
For more information click here
6. Inclusion and Participation
By 2020 the government would like all schools to be acting as models of social inclusion, enabling all pupils to participate fully in school life while instilling a long-lasting respect for human rights, freedoms and creative expression.
By 2020 the government would like all schools to be acting as models of social inclusion, enabling all pupils to participate fully in school life while instilling a long-lasting respect for human rights, freedoms and creative expression.
(For Keystage 2 and Keystage 3)
(For Keystage 2 and Keystage 3)
7. Local Well Being
By 2020 the government would like all schools to be models of good corporate citizenship within their local areas, enriching their educational mission with active support for the well-being of the local environment and community.
(For Keystage 1, 2 and 3)
(For Keystage 1, 2 and 3)
8. Global Citizenship
By 2020 the government would like all schools to be models of good global citizenship, enriching their educational mission with active support for the well-being of the global environment and community.
By 2020 the government would like all schools to be models of good global citizenship, enriching their educational mission with active support for the well-being of the global environment and community.
(For Keystage 1, 2, 3 and 4)
