Welcome to the Climate Action Toolkit on ChangeX.
The charity InterClimate Network (ICN) will support secondary school students, and teachers, engage your school community on climate action.
We will offer support and resources including:
Take a look at the 5 Steps in the 'How to Start' section for details on this toolkit, including tips on signing up and completing the ChangeX 30 Day Challenge.
Background to the project
Schools across the UK are planning and delivering a wide range of climate-friendly steps, such as reducing waste, making buildings more efficient, or encouraging greener travel. InterClimate Network’s (ICN) research reports (2021 and 2022) showed that a majority of secondary students are already motivated to make a difference.
Success in this area means having the support of the whole school community. Students – and staff – have lots of different views, and there will be different activities and approaches that can help motivate them. This is where the Climate Action Toolkit comes in, giving as many students as possible their say on climate action in a school-wide online survey, and using behaviour change approaches to support climate action campaigns that go further - more targeted, more creative, more impact.
Welcome to the Climate Action Toolkit on ChangeX.
The charity InterClimate Network (ICN) will support secondary school students, and teachers, engage your school community on climate action.
We will offer support and resources including:
Take a look at the 5 Steps in the 'How to Start' section for details on this toolkit, including tips on signing up and completing the ChangeX 30 Day Challenge.
Background to the project
Schools across the UK are planning and delivering a wide range of climate-friendly steps, such as reducing waste, making buildings more efficient, or encouraging greener travel. InterClimate Network’s (ICN) research reports (2021 and 2022) showed that a majority of secondary students are already motivated to make a difference.
Success in this area means having the support of the whole school community. Students – and staff – have lots of different views, and there will be different activities and approaches that can help motivate them. This is where the Climate Action Toolkit comes in, giving as many students as possible their say on climate action in a school-wide online survey, and using behaviour change approaches to support climate action campaigns that go further - more targeted, more creative, more impact.
Action plan:
Timeline: We will start our project immediately. We want to build a vegetable garden. We have already started planting seeds. Sunflowers, peas, beans and garlic. Our team meets once per week on a Wednesday morning. Today we made plant pots out of newspaper and toilet rolls.
Budget: Our horticulture teacher already bought some pallet collars from Adverts.ie. We need to buy 2 tonnes of compost to start our garden plus we'd like to buy some seedlings from Quickcrop.ie. Our seeds are growing on windowsills in the school, but they are very slot.
Impact: Lots of students get a chance to watch the tomato plants growing, they grow so fast. And others have planted peas. Because they sit on the windowsill in the science teacher's classroom the students see the difference.
Next year the TY class will do a horticulture module and the veg beds will be their responsibility. It's especially nice for the Ukranian students to get involved because they have great stories about what their grandparents grow back home in Ukraine. Because it's a different climate there they grow very different crops. The sunflower is their national flower. Gardening is now part of our wellbeing programme in school, since our horticulture teacher joined the staff last year.
Location: We have chosen a sunny quiet location near our lunchroom for our garden. There is a tap in the lunchroom so we will be near to water. We have permission from the principal to grow here but we don't have all the tools. We will get a wheetbarrow and some wellington boots with the money too.