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Greenham Common Trust launches Sustainable website
Greenham Common Trust, the owner of New Greenham Park, has launched a website to
be used as an educational resource on sustainability in practice, to be used by
schools and colleges. The website,
www.sustainable-greenham.org, provides teaching plans and lesson ideas based
upon the history of Greenham Common its restoration and the transformation of
the former airbase into a sustainable business park.
The Sustainable Greenham website helps cross-curricular learning for
sustainability and enterprise and can be incorporated in to subjects such as
business studies, citizenship, geography, history, literacy and science. The
interactive website that includes games, video clips, presentations and photos
as well as comprehensive teacher’s notes, activity plans and work sheets.
The website is the brainchild of Greenham Common Trust, who has jointly funded
the project with the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, a fund administered by
Natural England on behalf of Defra.
Greenham Common Trust Chief Executive, Stuart Tagg, said “A generation of
children are growing up having only seen the common in its restored state and we
felt it was important that a resource was developed so that local children
recognise the rich history of the site; how the restoration of Greenham Common
came about and the role the common is still playing today.”
“The website has been designed and written in consultation with working teachers
and has activities appropriate to Key Stage 1 to 4,” he added. “We hope that
teachers find the website a useful resource when explaining a vital part of the
area’s history.”
Jonathan Clarke, from Natural England said: “We are very supportive of the work
Greenham Common Trust is doing to help ensure that the rich variety of species,
the story of the restoration and the benefits from minerals extraction on the
Common’s is passed on to our children.”
“Greenham Common is a fantastic example of restoration and is a great resource
in itself. It is vital that it is recognised as a special area, so that
generations to come protect the Common.”
Among those who have contributed to the website are Newbury based communications
consultancy Daybreak Communications, West Berkshire Council, West Berkshire
Education Business Partnership, West Berkshire Museum, the local Wildlife Trust,
RSPB, Tarmac and Raymond Brown Group Ltd, two of the main companies involved
with the restoration project.
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