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Resources                                                                                                                                                          Partnerships


      The new website brings life to the Eco-Schools  The marine resources are also  designed  for                              Outputs                                                                          Target       Total
      Wales resources,  enabling  all  resources to  secondary schools.  The  newly developed
      be readily available with the click of a button  webpage holds videos, images and background                              Partnership Links – Co-working with partners on events throughout                    5           6

      for  both primary  and secondary  schools.  All  information  to  guide  the  user  through  the                          the year.                                                                        partners
      resources can be filtered by topic area and are  marine resources that are available.  This                               Partnership links – share and promote partner resources through                      6           7
      available  in  both  Welsh  and  English.  This  will  webpage,  and  resources,  will  also  share a                     events and newsletters.
      extend  as  we  develop  our  resources  for  the  complementary message of #BeTheWave, a call                         We  have  continued  and  strengthened  our  planning  joint  pupil  workshops  for  May,  and
      Welsh Baccalaureate with secondary schools in  for young people to be the wave of change and                           partnership with Size of Wales, working together  have had discussions with the Education team at
      mind.                                                  help protect our marine environments.                           on  our Climate Change training  sessions  and  Natural Resources Wales, laying the foundation
                                                                                                                             on live pupil events. We also regularly meet to  for collaboration throughout the next year. We

                                                                                                                             discuss  upcoming  projects  and  collaboration  are also meeting with Repair Café Wales to see
                                                                                                                             to support each other and avoid duplication of  how we can work together.
                                                                                                                             resources.
                                                                                                                                                                                     We  have  continued  our  good  relationship
                                                                                                                             We have developed a stronger partnership with  with Healthy Schools, maintained via regional
                                                                                                                             Dŵr Cymru this year, delivering pupil workshops  interactions  between  local  officers.  Examples
                                                                                                                             together, with plans to continue next year.             include:

                                                                                                                                                                                        ● Caerphilly Healthy Schools and regional
                                                                                                                             Our  Be  The  Wave  resources  have  been               Eco-Schools officer mapping out how the two

                                                                                                                             developed  in  partnership  with  the  Marine           programmes link, to help teachers to progress
                                                                                                                             Conservation  Society and  we  have  worked             in both awards (something that will be shared
                                                                                                                             together in developing the training to support          across Wales).
                                                                                                                             these resources ready for delivery in 2022.
                                                                                                                                                                                        ● The Cwm Taf Healthy Schools team
                                                                                                                             This  year  we  have  played  an  active  part  in  a   consulting with their local Eco-Schools officer
                                                                                                                             Sustainable  Fashion  network led  by  Friends          to engage schools in the area with litter and
                                                                                                                             of the Earth and involving  Repair  Café                health work linked to World No Tobacco Day.
                      A screenshot of the primary resources , filtered by the topic ‘Energy’.                                Wales,  Welsh fashion  businesses  and  other                ● In the Vale of Glamorgan, a joint cluster

                                                                                                                             interested individuals. This led to the work on         event for schools.
                                                                                                                             the #GreenFriday  social  media campaign  in
                                                                                                                             November.                                                  ● Powys – joint assessments conducted and
                                                                                                                                                                                     sharing of engagement to support one another.

                                                                                                                             We worked closely with  WWF Cymru to
                                                                                                                             develop and deliver the Senior Eco-Committee            As well as all the above, we are regularly asked
                                                                                                                             event in July 2021 and the Youth Summit. This           to meet and discuss further collaboration with
                                                                                                                             partnership is continuing to plan another event         organisations  from  Wales  and  further  afield.
                                                                                                                             in summer 2022.                                         Recently this has included sharing of resources
                                                                                                                                                                                     from Alupro and Urban Worm, supporting the
                                                                                                                             Climate Cymru have  been  in  regular contact,          Green Jobs agenda for secondary pupils through

                                                                                                                             and we have worked together to promote their            Speakers for Schools  and linking  more  closely
                                                                                                                             campaign  and  share  their  excellent  resources       with Urdd Gobaith Cymru.
                                                                                                                             and climate engagement opportunities.
                                                                                                                             We are currently working with Plantlife Cymru,

                      A screenshot of the Marine Ecosystems marine resources webpage
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