Activities
Imago Award Scheme
Developing positive attitudes towards the environment amongst pupils with special needs
Imago logo This award scheme has been designed by a group of SEN school teachers specifically to highlight those areas of the wider school curriculum which contribute to the pupil's development of a positive environmental awareness. The record of
achievement is a positive summary with levels of involvement and commitment increasing with age and aptitude.
For more details please contact Dave Digby, Springfield Study Centre, on 01564 779741.

Imago Certificate
Imago Certificate
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A hands on project about recycling waste and the wider world
Birmingham Development Education Centre are inviting teachers to work together in a project which involves setting up a classroom based recycling scheme and carrying out activities which investigate the underlying principal behind this scheme. An activity book written by a group of teachers will be provided for every child in your class.
For more details please contact Ben Ballin, Development Education Centre, on 0121 472 3255.
Environmental Educators Network
Developing a framework for sustainable development
Representatives of key organisations providing educational services to schools including City Departments, agencies and NGO’s were invited to two meetings. It was a rare chance to meet and begin creating a framework of collective ambitions for local and global sustainable development and identify their particular contributions towards supporting Birmingham schools. It is hoped to meet formally once per year to review and revise plans.
For more details please contact Ben Ballin, Development Education Centre, on 0121 472 3255.
Interactive Environments
School/Community based events
Clusters of schools have been invited to submit plans for events which raise pupil awareness of sustainable development in a stimulating and novel way.  Examples include Rookery Road Infant and Nursery school using recycled materials to create puppets in a performance to pupils, parents from their own nursery and other nursery groups in the locality. Hallmoor School held a day using storyteller to celebrate their project ‘Community Gardens in School’.  Local primary schools involved in their “flightpath” inclusion network were invited to participate.
For more details please contact Ben Ballin, Development Education Centre, on 0121 472 3255.
Sustainable Development Resource
Teacher handbook for curriculum projects
This is a unique teacher handbook on sustainable development education sharing work from a wide variety of curriculum projects co-ordinated by Birmingham Development Education Centre involving dozens of Birmingham schools at all ages and stages. Launched at the Council for Environmental Education conference in November 2000 and distributed to all schools in Birmingham.
For more details please contact Ben Ballin, Development Education Centre, on 0121 472 3255.