Better Planet Schools is an education project to help primary schools in the UK to reduce their environmental impacts. This is achieved by reducing their energy consumption, and engaging them in initiatives to reduce waste, increase recycling and improve the biodiversity of their grounds and surrounding areas.
Benefit from a year-long programme of educational materials that enable you to learn about key environmental issues whilst reducing your environmental impacts, in school and at home.
We have a wide range of options available for sponsors, from supporting an individual school’s participation to enabling thousands to take part. Contact us to find out more.
Empower Your Students to Save Our Planet! Better Planet Schools is a dynamic online environmental education programme designed for UK primary schools. We equip children and teachers with the knowledge and tools to tackle critical issues like climate change, plastic pollution, and wildlife conservation. Choose three engaging, 10-12 week modules per year, covering topics like energy saving, sustainable fashion, and habitat creation. Students can become leaders with our Better Planet Schools Crew badges, and every completed module report earns your school a chance to win exciting prizes! Inspire lasting change and watch your students make a real difference, year after year.
The Better Planet Education carried out the initial development of Better Planet Schools concept with the support of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council.
Find out about energy savings, how your school can cut its carbon emissions and what we can do to help tackle the future impacts of climate change.
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Discover how your school can go single use plastic free, increase recycling rates and help reduce the amount of plastic pollution in our ocean.
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Learn about local and global wildlife, showing how you can enhance biodiversity within your school grounds and support conservation projects locally and globally.
See MoreBetter Planet Schools is open to all primary schools in the UK. We provide schools with sets of lesson plans, presentations, assemblies and activities on environmental themes that can be studied for a whole school term. We also show children and staff how they can take action to make a difference. And we know it works! Our 20 pilot schools saved an average 14% of their energy use through pupil-led behaviour change alone!
The cost of supporting a primary school's participation in Better Planet Schools for a whole year is £100.00*. Whether you're a large or small business, a council, a PTA or a parent or grandparent, you can become a sponsor. Schools can also choose to fund their own place.
As a sponsor, you can specify a particular school or schools to support, or you can choose to allow schools within a county/counties, a country within the UK, or UK-wide to receive sponsorship from you.
* some sponsors may be subject to VAT at 20.0%
