Pupils across the School wore green to celebrate the launch of an innovative Green Curriculum and King’s wider focus on sustainability, reflected in successfully completing the requirements of the Eco Schools Green Flag Award.
Throughout the day, assemblies, lessons, competitions and workshops focussed on the causes and impact of climate change. Pupils calculated their carbon footprint, undertook challenges and wrote pledges on dried leaves to mitigate against increased carbon emissions. Superheroes were crafted in English and pupils wrote letters of apology to future generations, while in Mathematics, graphs showing deforestation were examined. In Drama, budding David Attenboroughs crafted nature documentaries, while linguists explored sustainable vocabulary and leading environmental activists and, in Classics, pupils considered how the management of the environment is not only a modern concern.
In the Pre-Preparatory School pupils embarked on scavenger hunts, particularly enjoying the identification of rosemary in the herb garden, while in the Removes pupils crafted some ingenious devices for overcoming the pollution of the River Medway in workshops led by students from the Engineering Design Institute.
Consideration was given to repositioning nature in the centre of our world, while pupils considered future careers in the burgeoning green economy, with the aim of developing in our pupils a sense of agency, resilience and constructive hope for the future of the planet.
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