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Sustainable schools toolkit - testimonials

"We really like this toolkit. It brings everything together in one place and it's so attractive and accessible. It's very good at inspiring adults and it motivates you to get involved - it just leads you in."

"We're thinking of using the wheel image in a variety of sizes and ways to represent sustainability around the college and keep it in everyone's consciousness."

"We have linked it to our school's pastoral model and have given each of our eight houses its own doorway, or section of the sustainability wheel, to develop."

Peter Cobbold, vice principal, Coombeshead College, Devon

 A truly adaptable tool that supports schools at different points on the sustainability journey. 
 We are a permanent Green Flag school so you might think there isn't much we could gain from using this tool but you'd be quite wrong. Sustainability isn't something you do and then it's finished. This tool helps you find new approaches to match changes in circumstances. 
 Using this toolkit to continually review and audit progress is now an integral part of our sustainable development action plan. 

Brian Thomas, headteacher, Milton Mount Primary School, West Sussex

 This toolkit has broadened both staff and pupil understanding about what education for sustainable development is and how to build it. 
 I took the tool into Year 5 and 6 to see what children would do with it. They were more aware than adults when using it as an audit tool and they came up with lots of quality ideas about what we could do in the future. 
 This toolkit is helping me to empower others to lead and drive things so that it will become sustainable. 
 An invaluable audit tool that enables clearer thinking and suggests possible areas of study about what we can do in the future. 

Robert Kempner , headteacher, Whiteshill Primary School, Gloucestershire