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Sustainability

Silverdale Primary Academy has prioritised sustainability as one of the core objectives as we move forward; we are committed to working toward embedding sustainability into all our future thinking, decisions and direction.

At the heart of our community of students, staff and stakeholders, Silverdale has a central role to play in educating its community about the importance of sustainability.  To achieve this, we must first practice what we preach.  To this end, we have signed up to the Let's Go Zero  campaign, declaring our aim to work towards becoming carbon zero by 2030.  In doing so, we're joining schools across the UK in this national campaign to show the overwhelming support for zero carbon schools and inviting government and local councils to work with us to reach this goal.

Our sustainability actions to date:

  • We have worked with a Let's Go Zero Climate Action Advisor to develop a Climate Action Plan for 2025-2026, highlighting our priorities for the coming year.
  • We have calculated our carbon footprint using the Count Your Carbon tool. This will enable us to benchmark our carbon output year on year.
  • Converted the majority of our interior lighting to LED to cut our electricity usage.
  • Gained funding to develop an unused plot of land to plant a vegetable garden to educate students about sustainable food sources.
  • Planted over 400 trees from the Woodland Trust as we look to continue to develop our Forest School Provision.

Our future sustainability plans:

  • To assemble a working party of staff, pupils and stakeholders to support sustainability at Silverdale moving forward.
  • To install a BMS to manage our heating across the site from a central point.
  • To reduce the amount of waste going to landfill, and develop recycling opportunities throughout the academy.
  • To promote walking, cycling and scooting to school by providing safe storage and space on the school site.
  • To reduce water wastage throughout the academy, and educate around water consumption and efficiency.
  • To increase the biodiversity of the site, supporting local wild life and encouraging sections of the school grounds to be rewilded.

Find out more about the Let’s Go Zero campaign here: https://letsgozero.org/

Climate Action Plan