The Primary Awards for Green Education in Schools are not currently open for new entries
ABOUT THE PRIMARY AWARDS FOR
GREEN EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS
The Primary Awards for Green Education in Schools (PAGES) is an awards scheme for primary schools in the United Kingdom, which has been created by Better Planet Education (formerly know as the Young People’s Trust for the Environment). The Awards have so far seen amazing environmental projects submitted by almost 450,000 young people, guided by their inspirational teachers.
The Primary Awards for Green Education in Schools aim to assist and encourage environmental education for young people aged 5-11. They promote cross-curricular work on the environment and ANY work you are doing at your school covering any kind of environmental issue can be entered. PAGES link with the National Curriculum for England and Wales, the Northern Ireland Curriculum Primary and the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.
The Awards are not currently open for entries. If you are interested in sponsoring the Awards, please contact Better Planet Education.
The Categories
The competition is split up into 4 categories, schools enter projects in one or more of the categories
Green Action Takers
Green Action Takers is for projects that involve work in the school grounds e.g. sensory gardens, ponds, wildlife areas, recycling schemes and composting. Alternatively, for reports on visits to the countryside, adventures in the great outdoors and getting children active and exploring their world!
Green Creators
Green Creators is for environmentally themed art, music, drama and poetry. Examples include: save the planet song; pollution rap; art inspired by the environment; cleaner planet murals….
Green Entrepreneurs
Combine learning about running a business with eco products! For example, you could make and sell recycled Christmas decorations, nestboxes for birds, vegetables that you've grown in the school garden…
Green Researchers
The Green Researchers category is for projects researching any aspect of the environment – can be incorporated into Geography, Science, Maths, I.T. and History e.g. wild bird feeding or recycling surveys, our town’s environment now and in the past, where in the world does our food come from?
Better Planet Education (registered charity number 1153740) aims to encourage young people’s understanding of the natural world and of the need for sustainability. It provides educational services for schools and young people including:
Website: www.betterplaneteducation.org.uk for a huge range of environmental information, written for young people and teachers
Lesson plans and presentations: Free downloadable lesson plans accompanied by presentations to assist teaching about environmental issues.
Educational videos: Free, downloadable videos on key environmental issues for use by teachers and students.
Free talks in schools: Currently available online for schools anywhere in the UK, our talks and presentations cover a wide range of environmental issues and can be tailored to suit different age groups and abilities.
Better Planet Schools: Our environmental education programme for UK primary schools, providing educational materials and activities for schools to learn about and make a difference to environmental issues.
Environmental news: Regular updates about environmental issues across the planet.
Better Planet Schools is an online environmental education programme, created by the Young People's Trust for the Environment (now Better Planet Education) to engage children and teachers in the UK's primary schools. The programme aims to engage students and teachers to learn about and take action on key issues like saving energy to tackle climate change; reducing use of plastics and other waste and increasing recycling; fast fashion; air pollution; and creating new habitats for wildlife to thrive.
Taking part in Better Planet Schools could give you all the evidence you need for great PAGES entry!
Schools choose three modules per year, with each module lasting 10-12 weeks. And every school submitting an end-of-module report gets entered into an end of term draw to win some great prizes, like a free energy survey, or class-sized activity packs.