Why schools?
There’s a need
8 in 10 children and young people (78%) agree that looking after the environment is important to them (Official Statistics, Children's People and Nature Survey for England)
70% of teachers in the UK don’t feel equipped to teach about the climate crisis (Teach The Future)
59% of children and young people are very or extremely worried about climate change (The Lancet)
To help, we're working with partners to:
Educate children, young people and teachers on people and planet health
Empower them to take action with practical programmes for their schools and local area
Encourage a ripple effect of knowledge to their families and networks
Eco Schools
The Bupa Foundation and Keep Britain are partnering to help create even more Eco Schools.
We’re working together to help young people and teachers feel confident about taking action on their health and local environment, starting at their school.
Over the 2023/24 school year we aim to benefit over 300,000 young people and their teachers. We’ll do this by supporting schools to complete the Eco-Schools programme, create new learning resources, and offer a free training programme for teachers, helping them to feel confident to deliver environmental education. This support will prioritise schools in lower-socio economic areas, enabling them to take part.
Working together to help make our communities greener, cleaner and healthier
Free Coding Days
Our friends at Bupa have partnered with Get with the Program to offer free Bupa Coding Days for primary schools.
Anyone can sign up or nominate a school, or you can register your interest as a volunteer.
Schools will get free access to a 30-minute online show and a 45-minute follow-up activity per class.
Free Healthy Lunch-Bot Coding Adventure for
5-9-year-olds
Free copies of The Happy News for schools
The Happy Newspaper celebrates positive news and wonderful people. Including news and ideas about being healthy in body, mind and helping the environment.
The newspaper is printed quarterly, accompanied by free downloadable resources by Twinkl.
Any school in the UK can sign up and be in with a chance of receiving free newspapers each quarter for use at their schools, supported by the Bupa Foundation.
