{"id":1594,"date":"2022-06-10T15:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2022-06-10T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T14:58:10","slug":"southampton-primary-schools-environmental-education-network-meeting-7th-june-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/southampton-primary-schools-environmental-education-network-meeting-7th-june-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton Primary Schools Environmental Education Network meeting, 7th June 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof Marcus Grace<\/a> and Dr Andri Christodoulou<\/a> hosted the first Environmental Education Network meeting for Southampton Primary Schools at Southampton Education School, University of Southampton on 7th<\/sup> June 2022.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This network meeting is part of the \u2018Consolidating the Wild Citizens<\/em> project\u2019 <\/strong>funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences under the \u2018Interdisciplinary Research Pump Priming Fund\u2019 Call.<\/p>\n

The network meeting was an opportunity for environmental educators in formal and non-formal settings in Southampton, as well as Southampton City Council representatives to come together to discuss ideas for how we can work more closely together in a sustainable way to promote environmental education across Southampton\u2019s primary schools, and to support the development of best practices in this area.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, participants had the opportunity to hear about the PERu-funded Wild Citizens<\/a> project by Andri Christodoulou and the activities that have been implemented as part of this project from Kanes Hill Primary\u2019s science lead Steve James. Guest speakers also included Samantha Munslow from Southampton City Council, who provided an overview of the Council\u2019s biodiversity activities and Green City Plan 2030<\/a>, Steve Bowles, who shared his experiences of developing and implementing environmental education programmes in primary schools in Southampton, Mac Ince from Sholing Valleys Study Centre<\/a> and Helen Robinson from the New Forest National Park <\/a>sharing information about their environmental education and engagement activities respectively, \u00a0and finally Jess Spurrell sharing information about how the University of Southampton can support University-school partnership\"\"<\/a>s with a focus on environmental education activities.<\/p>\n

The scope, objectives and membership of the Network were discussed sharing many useful ideas for taking these activities forward, ways of sharing best practices, and of supporting teachers and schools to develop their environmental education provision.<\/p>\n

For further information on the Network\u2019s activities and to join our next meeting please contact: Marcus Grace<\/a> or Andri Christodoulou<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prof Marcus Grace and Dr Andri Christodoulou hosted the first Environmental Education Network meeting for Southampton Primary Schools at Southampton Education School, University of Southampton on 7th June 2022. This network meeting is part of the \u2018Consolidating the Wild Citizens project\u2019 funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences under the \u2018Interdisciplinary Research Pump Priming Fund\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}