A community of educators empowering students to take climate action
Avon Schools Eco Network
The Avon Schools Eco Network (ASEN) has been meeting since late 2020 to to discuss sustainability and get to know each other. Their intent is to make a difference in the region with more impact than they could as an individual school. Students meet fortnightly for an hour on weekday evenings, on zoom. The group of Year 10 to 13 students from ten schools are mentored by local freelance educators and staff from Bristol and Bath schools and universities. There are close links with the Somerset Climate Justice Network, another member of the UK Schools Sustainability Network.
Calling students and staff from Bristol, Bath and surrounding areas: get in touch if you’d like your school to join!
Students should ask a teacher to join too and, using their school email address, write to us and copy in the teacher.
Aims
Our Vision
'A movement for a sustainable future, powered by the young people of Avon for Avon. Diversity is a Golden Thread throughout our network.'
We meet with like-minded students with whom you can share ideas and knowledge, and work together on exciting projects that will hopefully bring change. We hope you will feel inspired to join Avon Schools Eco-Network, as we would love to have as many people with lots of different ideas, perspectives, and goals in the network as possible.
Networks build a secure base of facts, opinions, and specialists within the groups, and then use influential contacts, voices of the youth, and different strategies to tackle the important issues we face as a society. Being part of this network is a great way to meet like-minded students with whom you can share ideas and knowledge, as well as working together on projects that will hopefully bring change.
Our Aims
- Maximise influence together on climate and environmental action
- Representing the collective voice of students to COP26, local and national government: teach the future
- Workplace and life skills for students
- Strengthening student voice, written and digital communication skills
- Emotional & practical shared space for like-minded students & staff
- Arranging safe and productive meeting places for mutual and practical encouragement
- Student-led but school-based and supported by teachers
- Aimed at all students not just youth activists
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Contact
If you would like to know more about Transform Our World, the UK Schools Sustainability Networks or any of our programmes, please get in touch.
Thank you for submitting your enquiry! We are currently receiving a large number of enquiries and are trying our best to get back to people as soon as possible. In the meantime, you might find one of the following links helpful:
- Are you a teacher? Learn about how to use the website here.
- Looking for teaching resources? You can find our collection of highly-rated resources here.
- Looking for something more long-term? Check out our featured programmes here.
- Want to see what other schools have been up to? Have a read of some case studies here.
- Alternatively, take a look at our FAQs and About pages as they might help to answer your question(s).
All the best,
The Transform Our World team