Dorset Schools
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| The Education Reform Bill states that the curriculum of schools should be broadly based, promoting the development of pupils at the school and in society and preparing students for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life. |
| The Dorset Curriculum Policy goes on to specify that "teachers should help students to acquire knowledge, experience, understanding and skills relevant to adult life and employment in a fast changing world". |
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What
support should the schools deliver?
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The
United Nations have thrown down this challenge to young people...
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| Talk about the problems that you see in your own environment…Make an action plan on how you can improve your environment in the new millenium…Challenge yourself and your leaders to bring the concept of Sustainable Development, especially environmental and social justice, to the centre of local, national and international decision-making. It's your world - accept nothing less' 19 |
| The Dorset school community will: |
| * Help young people to learn about and understand how to build fairer, happier and |
| healthier communities. |
| * Help young people to understand the overwhelming need for creative, socially |
| useful, economically viable environmentally benign and fairly paid work for all. |
| * Help young people to understand the need to care for and enhance their local |
| environmental resources, upon which, ultimately, all life depends. |
| * Enable and encourage pupils to practice sustainability in their own lives and as |
| world citizens. |
| * Give young people the opportunity to participate in decision making within their |
| school. |
| * Allow young people the opportunity to make their views known to the external |
| opinion formers and decision takers, at an appropriate level, and be taken seriously. |
| * Help students to acquire knowledge, understanding and skills relevant to adult life |
| and employment in a fast changing world. |
| What are the indicators of success? |
| Each school should be able to identify their own indicators of success. These will be unique to that school; depending on the location, phase, best practice and circumstances within which the school operates. |
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| 'The Young people of today will grow up to be the citizens of the future: but what the future holds for them is not yet clear.' 12 |
| The new emphasis on Citizenship offers an opportunity for ESD. Citizenship and Sustainable Development are interlinked; each relying on the other for its realisation. The importance given to each depends on the perspective of the observer. |
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E.S.D.
is about connecting people with people, as well as people with planet.
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Click to go to the Sustainable Development Audit page. |
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The
Dorset Schools Environmental Bulletin Board
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We have provided a space where Dorset schools can share successes and experiences of projects specifically designed to improve the schools environment/ sustainability. The bulletin board is refreshed monthly and we positively encourage you to use it. To view the current board click the button below. |
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