Kings College operates a good example of an environmentally sustainable school? Discuss?

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  2. Introduction
  3. Aim
  4. Initiatives
  5. School locational context
  6. Example of environmentally sustainable school
  7. Conclusion
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Kings College operates a good example of an environmentally sustainable school? Discuss?

The environment is a key factor and is something we should take into consideration more and more now as we edge closer to global warming. Global warming is having a great effect on us now without us really knowing much about it. For example the factors that are playing a role are the amount of gas in the air that is being produced by humans. This is being done to produce electricity, heating and to drive our cars. It is vitally important that we start to do something about this as around the world; everyone will have to play their part to use less non renewable resources on a global scale. Therefore educating the younger generation to start to help look after and protect their environment becomes more and more important.  The responsibility for this will predominantly come from influencing them in their school environment, where they spend the majority of their time up to the age of 18.  However this will only be possible if the school takes it upon itself to introduce new measures to become a more environmentally sustainable. This exposure in the school environment will hopefully encourage more renewable resources to be used outside of school at home by recycling. This will help people get used to this way for later in life when there maybe a shortage of non renewable resources such as oil, gas and coal. The way in which the school could become more environmentally friendly is by encouraging people to for example try not to waste paper and use both sides and promoting these ideas widely and visually around the school. Also recycling, reduce the food wastage and the amount of energy used by the school.

Kings college is a secondary school with students aged 11- 18, it is located in the south east of England in Guildford, surrey. It is located in the centre of a big council estate of Park Barn. It location is approximately 30 miles from the capital London.

It is located about 10 minute walk to Guildford train station directly on the main line to waterloo.

Aim:                                                                                                                                                                       ‘Kings College promotes a culture of environmental sustainability and as such can be described as a sustainable school’.

To do this successfully I will be using sub aims these include:

  • What is meant by an environmentally sustainable school?
  • Also a questionnaire to find out whether students parents (stakeholders in the school) think this is an important issue – whether there is any difference based on age and socio economic group.

From this I am going to investigate what the school is already doing to be sustainable and what still could be improved throughout the school. The way in which I am going to try to obtain this information is by doing a questionnaire to a certain amount of students around school to find out how environmentally aware they are and also if they care about the effect of global warming and the sustainability of the school. Also this questionnaire will involve a question on the way in which students travel to school. Depending on the response in which I get I will then ask the people who say that they are environmentally friendly in what ways do they prove this.

Also a factor that could influence the feedback I get from the students could be difference in age and also difference in socio economic group. For example a year 7 student maybe doesn’t have as much knowledge as say a year 11 student on the matter and therefore I cannot make this too one sided towards either of the factors concerned so I will use a technique called random sampling where I will obtain all of the peoples names in a database which I will get from the schools records and use a function on there that randomly picks a selection of people from this.

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After that I will then turn my attention to the school and how much energy is used? Are they wasting energy? They will lose energy due to the fact that most of the windows throughout the school are not double glazed. The new improvements throughout the school have double glazing, so if the school could invest into getting most if not all the school double glazed in the long run it will be cheaper and the initial cost will pay for itself. They will be wasting money and energy so the things they could do to limit this are ...

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