Page 3 - Eco-Schools Newsletter - Spring One 2024 - English
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A letter from our guest editor
As an Education Officer with Keep vegetables, probably because they
Wales Tidy, I see first-hand the came from a generation where it
benefits of bringing sustainability was an essential part of daily life to
into the classroom, as well as taking provide food for the family.
the classroom outdoors!
We, as education officers, pride
I was very lucky to have had an ourselves on helping schools make
upbringing on a family farm in this possible through providing
Carmarthenshire where I could learning opportunities and training
be outdoors and investigate and for outdoor learning. It is also
learn about nature nearly every further facilitated by Keep Wales
day; it was part of growing up. I Tidy’s brilliant Local Places for
feel passionately that we should Nature programme.
give pupils the opportunity to learn
about growing food and being self- We must also remember that
sufficient in a world where food being outdoors is very beneficial
prices have risen dramatically in for wellbeing and gives the
recent years. opportunity of a hands-on approach
to education, thus providing pupils
My parents, both now in their with skills for their future.
80s, still grow most of their own
- Bethan Evans-Phillips, Education Officer for Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and
Carmarthenshire.
