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Sunita Bhandari and Rajen Karki discuss Kopila Valley School’s wide-ranging sustainability initiatives, emphasising the importance of place-based education, community engagement, and fostering students’ growth into independent, eco-conscious citizens.
Oanh Crouch discusses the growing concern of Nature Deficit Disorder among children, exacerbated by the digital age. The article outlines a structured outdoor learning programme, ‘The Journey,’ designed to reconnect students with nature, enhance their physical activity, reduce stress, and support cognitive development.
Award-winning Kopila Valley School serves 400 of the most vulnerable and at-risk children from the region each year using a holistic approach, with a major focus on experiential and place-based education. Sunita Bhandari and Rajen Karki discuss the school’s healthy lunch program and agriculture initiatives.
Samuel Hodge, Deputy Principal at Prince of Wales Island International School (POWIIS), discusses the award-winning POWIIS Project, a service learning/passion project curriculum addressing local environmental and social concerns. It is not just one initiative, but rather close to 30, aiming to cover all 17 SDGs.
All schools want students to make a difference, but ensuring that this change is authentic can be a challenge. Mark Beales, Principal of Osaka YMCA International School, emphasises the importance of establishing sustainable initiatives exists at the school’s core. He delves into the school’s award-winning student-led initiative while sharing practical advice.
DPS International School in Gurugram won a 2024 International School Award for its Student Task Force, reflecting their commitment to innovative, student-led initiatives for community wellbeing. Gunjan Tomar, Activities and Service as Action Coordinator at DPS International School, tells us about the evolution of the Student Task Force and the various initiatives to exist within it.
Heritage International School in Moldova was shortlisted for its sustainability initiative by ISC Research at the International School Awards in 2023. Tatiana Popa explains the approach the school took to implement sustainability as a top priority, and how they involved everyone in it.
Seeking to inspire more appreciation of the natural world, International College Hong Kong – Hong Lok Yuen (ICHK-HLY) made the decision to become the first school in Hong Kong to plant a Miyawaki Forest in an unused area at the end of a field. Derek Pinchbeck tells us all about this!
A whole school focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) helped to both resuscitate and bring hope to a school community and allowed its students to understand themselves anew, as authors of their own destinies, as Andrew Watson explains.
The International School of Zug and Luzern was honoured with two 2022 International School Awards in January: the International Impact Award for its Global Changemakers Project and the Environment Award for its Aquaponics Programme. Both initiatives highlight work by students and for students towards realising a vision for a better, kinder world as Head of School Barry Dequanne explains.
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