Posts Tagged: schools

After months of anticipation and hard work, we’re delighted to announce the opening of our exciting new wildlife garden. Based at the home of WWF-UK in Woking, the garden forms part of WWF’s learning experience for schools and youth groups, as well as being a place for members of the local community and staff to […]

Eleanor Walker, teacher at Victoria Park Primary School in Bristol ignites the passion in her pupils and her colleagues on all things eco. Actually winning the Green Ambassador award was amazing! It was fantastic for some of my green team to come along to support me, to meet other ‘green’ schools and to celebrate all […]

It’s World Book Day today! Following the recent launch of WWF’s personalised children’s book, The Tiger Protector, the charity asked me to put together a few ideas to help you celebrate at home or at school, with a Tiger theme, of course! Here’s how… Make a jungle scene You will need: a sheet of A4 […]

My passion for the mountains started well before joining WWF-UK. As a kid some of my best memories involving climbing Snowdon and Ben Nevis with my parents, but I always dreamed of bigger peaks. Only when I arrived at the ripe age of forty did I finally realise my dream of tackling some serious peaks, […]

Back in 2014 Sodexo and WWF set out to answer the question ‘how can we create meals that are tasty, healthier and good for the planet all at the same time?’ A little over two years later and we think we’ve got the answer. Green & Lean is a new range of meals from Sodexo […]

It’s that time of year again – when the kids go back to school after the long summer break. September 5 also happens to be Amazon Day in Brazil. Perhaps many of us first learned something about the Amazon from enthusiastic teachers at primary school. Perhaps we learned about it being the world’s largest rainforest […]

Food is a huge part of our everyday lives and yet many of us have never been more disconnected from the growing and the cooking of it. As head of schools and youth at WWF, I’m sharing my Plant2Plate journey and some inspiration and ideas for teachers and parents to get growing and cooking their […]

If you go down to the app store today you’re sure of a big surprise – a ‘green’ power-up for the Earth’s most popular online games. Apple and WWF, along with a whole host of big names in the app development world, have been having a bit of a digital picnic. Together we’ve taken the […]

On Saturday evening at 8.30pm thousands of Scots will join millions around the world by switching off their lights to celebrate WWF’s Earth Hour. I’m often asked if taking part and switching off our lights makes a difference? The answer is yes it does.  For many people the symbolic event is a catalyst for change, […]

Here at the Living Planet Centre we have enjoyed getting creative with The Big Draw and the theme ‘Every picture tells a story’. We wanted to create an inspirational and powerful reminder about the importance of caring for our amazing planet – focusing on the coldest places on Earth – the polar regions which are […]