Name: School uniform and sustainability by Creating Value in Schools
Duration: 1 min 59 s
Description: Chief Finance and Sustainability Officer Paul Edmond explains how exploring the life cycle of school uniform can help reduce costs for families as well as costs for the planet.

Chief Finance and Sustainability Officer Paul Edmond explains how exploring the life cycle of school uniform can help reduce costs for families as well as costs for the planet.

School uniform and sustainability

'A lot of the time it's been an absolute joy, a privilege.' 
Headteacher Carl Smith talks to Jo Smith about what we sees as a recipe for staying power in education: doing something you enjoy and feel you're good at doing, and creating the conditions for joy. 
View the full episode at createvalueschools.com/blog/enjoy-what-you-do-hope-joy-and-staying-power 

We stick at things we like doing

School improvement starts with finding your why, says Paul K Ainsworth, Director of Education at Infinity Academies Trust.  What is it that gets you up in the morning? What is it that drives you? Is that vision shared within your organisation? 
Hear more from Paul at createvalueschools.com/blog/keep-going-routes-to-sustainable-improvement-and-finding-your-why/

Start with why

Liz Worthen of Creating Value in School suggests three questions for consideration around why boys are struggling to achieve in schools, drawn from the Centre for Social Justice's 'Lost Boys' report. For more detail and links, see createvalueschools.com/need-to-know/whats-happening-with-boys 

Boys' achievement in school: three questions for reflection

Information, inspiration and resources to support schools in working sustainably and making the make the most of their resources.

School uniform and sustainability

Creating Value in Schools

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