Sustainability at Southdale Primary School

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Melissa Dunn for 250 students at Southdale Primary School aged Age 6 - 16.

Event description

Inspiring & Shaping a Sustainable Future

This year, Glasgow hosts the United Nations Conference on Climate Change. Over 200 world leaders & people of influence will attend to discuss priorities & actions relating to the Paris Agreement. LFS is an entitlement that all young people have within Scotland & is part of the GTC Standards. We want young people across West Lothian to have a sound understanding of the importance of leading sustainable lives now & in the future.

One of our education initiatives is to host an online launch event where we would like companies or organisations to speak about:
* how they are working towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
*the importance living & working sustainably has for everyone
*changes they have made to help their company become more environmentally friendly

After the event young people in their schools will choose a Goal or several Goals to investigate & take action on.

It may be that being a key speaker at the launch is as far as partner participation goes however it would be great if companies/organisations could support schools in taking some sort of action. This may be seeking your expert industry opinion on their ideas & how they could work. It may be that your company or organisation can help a school take forward an idea such as community growing projects, a circular economy initiative, supporting them with technology skills such as making an interesting Blog or video. The scope for this is wide & your involvement can be as little or as large as you would like it to be..