We had a great day today down at the Cae Bodfach Community Orchard working with Year 10 Land Based Studies students from Llanfyllin High School. We were also joined by Dewi Morris of the Severn Rivers Trust and Tom the Apple Man for a day of planting trees, orchard tending, willow harvesting and hedge building….
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Congratulations to Ellie, a Year 10 Welsh Baccalaureate student from Llanfyllin High School who has won our design competition. Her reward is a fruit tree guild to be planted on the grounds of the school! Ellie’s wonderful image will from now on be used as the official One School One Planet logo, and now adorns…
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Coming Soon! ‘One School One Planet Vol. 1 Climate. Education. Innovation.’ This short book chronicles the first year of the One School One Planet project, right from our initial theoretical and planning work through to our classroom based sessions at Llanfyllin High School. We have documented all of this in the hope that it might…
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The crisis deepens – US author J.H. Kunstler calls it ‘the long emergency,’ for that is surely what it is. Climate change, accelerating resource depletion and mass species extinctions underpin what we are experiencing as economic collapse. In reality, however, it is an ecological collapse. A certain kind of short-sightedness seems to have paralyzed humanity…
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Last week saw the end of the first phase of our One School One Planet classroom sessions. Over the last five weeks we have completed five units of our programme with a year 10 Welsh Baccalaureate class (click to be taken to a write-up about the session): Unit 1: Creatively Use and Respond to Change….
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The principle that we explored in Week 5 was ‘Systems and Limits,’ as an introduction to systems thinking and specifically the role of feedback. Natural systems function through interacting feedback loops, and there is a lot we could learn from paying attention to this fact. To begin Wednesday’s session we asked students to give us…
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The theme for Week 4 was ‘Obtain a Yield.’ To begin, and drawing on our emphasis on soil in the previous week, we asked the students to read through a newspaper article about a recent speech from the current UK Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Michael Gove. We asked the students…
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