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Firpark School caters for pupils with a wide range of special needs, and the school has managed to integrate eco work with many different curricular areas. Their Enterprise, Art and Technical departments have been exploring ways of turning ‘waste’ materials into new products; including greetings cards and notebooks, bird boxes, kites, and ‘dreamcatchers’. Home Economics work has focused on healthy-living activities, whilst SVS pupils have gone a step further and set up a healthy café and ‘supermarket’. The Geography Department have been using recycled stamps as a way of introducing pupils to new countries, whilst pupils have been honing their Drama skills with eco-related songs and other productions. Post-16 pupils follow the Environment component of the ASDAN curriculum in Science. They have discussed, planned and implemented improvements in the school garden, found out about pollution and litter, and carried out surveys on energy and transport, which links in well with Maths and ICT work.
A full curricular audit was undertaken to highlight the extent of Sustainable Development education already happening in classrooms around the school. (See Secondary Appendix 6)
The school integrated their Eco-Schools work with their Comenius International Project ‘ How to be an Active citizen in a Clean Europe’.
The school offered the work done by pupils following the Skills for Work ‘Rural Studies’ course as part of their evidence towards Green Flag Status
Exploration of the Ethics of examples of Environmental Injustice forms part of the RMPS course in the upper school.
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