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Sustainability Week Programme

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STEMbus

Ardingly College has helped convert an old double decker bus into a mobile science laboratory to take to local primary schools. This is an exciting opportunity for students to design and deliver their own fun and engaging activities to inspire young minds!

Who is it open to?

LVI

Where does it take place?

S12

When does it happen?

Thursdays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

PTB, PTB1

Solar Car Diploma

We have building solar cars for over a decade to educate students on sustainable transport solutions. In fact we own the only road registered solar car in the UK. Our new project is to continue to build the part completed solar utility vehicle and market this to sponsors. Hopefully to raise sufficient funds to ship this car to Kenya for extensive trials.

Who is it open to?

All years

Where does it take place?

Solar Lair and S8

When does it happen?

Thursdays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

AIS

Prep School Clubs

There are many clubs volunteers can be involved in, from creative writing to foreign languages to sport. Each offers students the chance to work alongside specialist teachers both learning & offering their own ideas.

Who is it open to?

Fifth, LVI, Remove, UVI

Where does it take place?

Prep School

When does it happen?

Thursdays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

DXN

Pre Prep After School Club

Students keen to gain experience with younger children can volunteer in the Pre-Prep After School Club.  Working alongside experienced staff, volunteers serve tea, encouraging good table manners, read stories and play alongside them.

Who is it open to?

Fifth, LVI, Remove, Shell, UVI, Year 8

Where does it take place?

Pre-Prep

When does it happen?

Thursdays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

DXN

Lower School News

Who is it open to?

Year 7, Year 8

Where does it take place?

Lower School House

When does it happen?

Thursdays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

JRT

Diplomacy Club

Learn how to negotiate, bluff and double-cross in this famous board game which leaves nothing to chance.

Who is it open to?

Fifth, LVI, Remove, Shell, UVI

Where does it take place?

A Corridor

When does it happen?

Thursdays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

GMU

Design for a better world (Practical Action competition)

Develop designs for products and/or systems that could address one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including climate change, poverty and lack of global access to basic services such as clean water and energy. Completed projects could be put forward for a CREST award and/or entered into the Big Bang Competition.

Who is it open to?

All years

Where does it take place?

DT

When does it happen?

Thursdays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

EGM

Bridging Ages Café

A fantastic volunteering opportunity to chat with the elderly residents of the village , play games & offer IT support over tea & biscuits!

Who is it open to?

Fifth, LVI, Remove, Shell, UVI, Year 7, Year 8

Where does it take place?

Cafe

When does it happen?

Thursdays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Ardingly Times

Interested in any aspect of journalism? The student newspaper is the first to be produced for over seventy years. Follow in the footsteps of OA political commentator and journalist Ian Hislop by writing, designing or leading for the next publication.

Who is it open to?

All years

Where does it take place?

B1

When does it happen?

Thursdays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

LP

Ardingly Sustainability Club

This EP is aimed at pupils who care about sustainability on a local, national and global level. We will discuss ways in which we can make Ardingly College a greener environment and put these ideas into action with the help of the key stakeholders in the College.

Who is it open to?

All years

Where does it take place?

B Corridor

When does it happen?

Thursdays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

BXP, TXS

Young Reporter’s Scheme (Monday)

Giving students real life experience of what it is like to work in the media, with deadlines etc. and a chance to publish their written work on a website.

Who is it open to?

Fifth, LVI, UVI

Where does it take place?

A1

When does it happen?

Mondays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

EGH

Pre-prep After School Club (Monday)

Students keen to gain experience with younger children can volunteer in the Pre-Prep After School Club. Working alongside experienced staff, volunteers serve tea, encouraging good table manners, read stories and play alongside them.

Who is it open to?

Fifth, LVI, UVI

Where does it take place?

Pre-prep

When does it happen?

Mondays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Prep School Clubs (Monday)

There are many clubs volunteers can be involved in, from creative writing to foreign languages to drama. Each offers students the chance to work alongside specialist teachers both learning from and offering their own ideas.

Who is it open to?

Fifth, LVI, UVI

Where does it take place?

Prep

When does it happen?

Mondays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Life Stories

Bringing teenagers and older people together to turn life stories into books. You will get the opportunity to record the life story, hear their story and produce something very special for them.

Who is it open to?

LVI

Where does it take place?

Neal Common Room

When does it happen?

Mondays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

GCK

Hockey Stars (Monday)

A first glance into the world of sports coaching. Students will have the chance to work with pupils from the local community. The Ardingly students will be guided by the sports coaches at Ardingly and encouraged to organise sessions and deliver them to the pupils who are playing.

Who is it open to?

LVI

Where does it take place?

South Astro

When does it happen?

Mondays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

Sam Wade

Ardingly Mentoring Programme (Monday)

For LVI (by invitation). Develop communication and leadership skills as part of a two term programme to give back to the school community and help Lower School students overcome difficulties and obstacles in their school lives. A four week training course is followed by weekly lunchtime meetings in which you will help a young person succeed in areas of difficulty.

Who is it open to?

LVI

Where does it take place?

SH24

When does it happen?

Mondays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

OJD

Footy Stars

A first glance into the world of sports coaching. Students will have the chance to work with pupils from the local community. The Ardingly students will be guided by the sports coaches at Ardingly and encouraged to organise sessions and deliver them to the pupils who are playing.

Who is it open to?

Fifth, LVI, UVI

Where does it take place?

Astro

When does it happen?

Mondays, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Who is in charge?

Sam Wade

Clothes Swap

To promote clothes recycling, some of our Upper Sixth students will be running a clothes swap for Senior School students on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday lunchtimes. Students can bring in clothes that they no longer want and exchange them for tickets that they can then use to ‘buy’ ‘new’ clothes. Students that do not have anything to swap can purchase items on Wednesday and Thursday with cash if they want.

Who is it open to?

Senior

Where does it take place?

West Quad

When does it happen?

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 1:05pm

Electric Aircraft Talk

Deepak Mahajan from Fly About Aviation is responsible for bringing fully electric aircraft to the UK, technology with the potential to have a huge impact in making aviation more sustainable. He has very kindly agreed to talk to the students about his work and the future of aviation.

Who is it open to?

Senior

Where does it take place?

The Under

When does it happen?

Mondays

Electric Catering Van Art Competition

The Catering Department has recently purchased a new electric van, but currently it is quite plain! Art Scholars have therefore been invited to create a bold, eye-catching design to decorate the van and highlight the themes of sustainability, electric vehicles and zero emissions. The designs will be judged by an internal panel and the winning design will be added to the van, complete with a credit for the winning designer.

When does it happen?

Tuesdays

Electric Vehicle Display

A range of electric vehicles will be on display on the South Terrace, including cars, vans, motorcycles, bikes and SUVs.

Students will be able to look at the display at break and lunch.

Year 7 and 8 will visit the display in their classes on a rota during period 4 and period 5. They will miss approximately 20-25 minutes of one of these periods.

Year 4 classes to visit 13:35-14:35

Where does it take place?

South Terrace

When does it happen?

Tuesdays, - 2:45pm

Food Waste Awareness

During Sustainability Week we will be encouraging students to think more about the issue of food waste by weighing their leftover food at lunchtimes so that we are all more conscious of how much gets thrown away and can make a conscious effort to reduce this.

Where does it take place?

Dining Hall

When does it happen?

All Week

Energy Usage Competition

During Sustainability Week, students in our Boarding Houses will be set the challenge of finding ways to reduce their energy usage. Mertens and Hilton, Toynbee and Aberdeen, and Woodard Girls and Woodard Boys, will compete to see who can reduce their usage the most.

Who is it open to?

Senior

When does it happen?

All Week

House Debating Finals

Students from across the Senior School have been competing over several weeks in this year’s House Debating Competition. To mark Sustainability Week, the finals this year will focus on a sustainability-related motion: ’Technological progress will not solve society’s environmental issues.’

Who is it open to?

Senior

Where does it take place?

Various Locations

When does it happen?

Thursdays

Printer Switch Off

The IT Team are setting the College community the ultimate challenge during sustainability week – to be paperless for a week! The College uses the equivalent power to 43 family homes just running the printer network. We printed over 1 million pieces of paper in 2022, which equates to cutting down over 120 trees. As we increasingly digitise our ways of working this seems like a good opportunity to encourage staff and students to think of alternative ways of working that cause less environmental damage, so that in the long-term we can be as paperless as possible.

Where does it take place?

Throughout the College

When does it happen?

All Week, 12:00am

Recycling Competition

Following requests from students at Student Council, this half-term has seen the return of a sustainability-related House competition. To encourage students to recycle, the Estates Department have been keeping track of how many recycling bags the various Houses have been producing, and whichever has shown the most sustained improvement over the course of the half-term will be declared the winner.

Who is it open to?

Senior

When does it happen?

All Week

Repair Cafe

As part of sustainability week, the Estates Department are running our very own version of BBC’s popular programme ‘The Repair Shop’.  Bring your much loved, can’t do without items along for a little TLC and we’ll see what we can do to get them back to their best.  Repair – don’t replace!

 

Further Details

Who is it open to?

All years, Staff

Where does it take place?

Cafe

When does it happen?

Mondays, 1:05pm - 2:45pm

Who is in charge?

Estates Dept

Sustainability Lecture: Anthropogenic Global Warming

In the sixth lecture in this year’s series on the theme of sustainability, Mr Millward will be discussing human-induced global warming, including how we know it is happening, the impact, and possible mitigation strategies.

Who is it open to?

Senior

Where does it take place?

Chapel

When does it happen?

Mondays, Tuesdays, 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Rewilding Project

We have 420 trees arriving from The Woodland Trust and students will be planting them in the field adjacent to the Kiln Wood car park during lunchtimes on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of Sustainability Week. Students can plant and note the location of their trees (What3Words) and then check on their progress over the next few years. Imagine returning to school to see the trees in 20-30 years time. Whilst small at the moment, the trees will absorb increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and soon become habitat, food source and cover for wildlife.

To find out more about the ‘Ardingly Wild’ project, initially inspired and funded by Old Ardinians Stephen Bowen (1964) and Jeremy Collingridge (1964) please visit: https://www.ardingly.com/alumni/giving/ardingly-wild/

Where does it take place?

Field by Kiln Wood Car Park

When does it happen?

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 1:05pm

Solar Car and Electric Vehicle Talk

Dr Spiers (MBE) will be leading a talk about sustainable transport. He will talk through the history and future of building solar powered cars at Ardingly College before introducing a range of speakers, including Bill Murray & Harrison Hughes, organisers of the London to Brighton/Paris Electric Vehicle Rally, who will discuss recent EV advances, William Keene of Carver, and Keno Mario-Ghae, Head of Special Projects at The Little Car Company. Alongside the talk, a large collection of electric vehicles will be on display by the archway for students to examine.

Who is it open to?

Remove, Shell

Where does it take place?

Chapel

When does it happen?

Tuesdays

Solar Car Course

Ardingly Ifield Solar have developed an online e-learning course called the Solar Diploma. The 7 unit course is designed to empower pupils in the latest battery, electric motor and solar panel technologies. The course involves studying a series of online PowerPoints, films and multiple choice questions with an overall end of diploma examination. This week, Shell science students will be completing one of the course modules.

Who is it open to?

Shell

Where does it take place?

classrooms

When does it happen?

All Week

Sustainability Week Assembly

To kick-off Sustainability Week, all Senior School students will attend a short assembly to give them an introduction into sustainability at Ardingly – what do we mean when we talk about being a more sustainable school, what have we already done in this regard and what part can the students themselves play?

Who is it open to?

Senior

Where does it take place?

Chapel

When does it happen?

Mondays

Sustainability Themed Lessons

Besides the various events that will be running throughout the week, our subject teachers have been thinking about ways to incorporate the theme of sustainability into their lessons more informally.

Who is it open to?

Senior

When does it happen?

All Week

Sustainability Week Menu

This week menus will be adapted, with two vegetarian options and one meat option at lunchtimes, increased use of non-dairy milks, and all vegetarian soups and salads.

Where does it take place?

Dining Hall

When does it happen?

All Week

Take a Risk Presentation Evening

The annual Lower Sixth competition run by the Business Department, which this year has been given a sustainability twist, culminates in Wednesday’s presentation evening. Under the guidance of business entrepreneurs and mentors, teams of Lower Sixth students will compete in small groups to come up with and deliver the best business presentation for a new sustainable product or service to potential investors. A panel of judges will assess the presentations and the winning team will be awarded the “Take a Risk” trophy.

Who is it open to?

LVI

Where does it take place?

The Under

When does it happen?

Wednesdays, 6:00pm - 9:30pm

Talk on Sustainability at Millennium Seed Bank

Keith Manger is the building manager of the world-famous Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place. Keith has more than two decades of overseeing the day-to-day running of the most biodiverse place on the planet and will be sharing his knowledge and expertise of environmental sustainability.

 

Who is it open to?

Senior

Where does it take place?

Lower Library

When does it happen?

Thursdays, 8:40am

Tours of the Biomass Boiler

As part of Sustainability Week the Estates Department are offering tours of the amazing and mysterious biomass boiler, so come along and find out how it works and how it has lowered the College’s carbon footprint!

 

Who is it open to?

Senior

Where does it take place?

Biomass Boiler

When does it happen?

All Week

Who is in charge?

Estates Dept

Careers in Sustainability Panel

Students who are passionate about sustainability and keen for a career that helps the planet can come along to the Chapel at 4.30pm on Monday to hear from a panel of Old Ardinians, all working in careers relating to sustainability. With industries from finance to farming represented, along with marketing, transport and energy, they will find out more about the range of careers available for anyone who would like to work to make the world a more sustainable place.

Where does it take place?

Chapel

When does it happen?

Mondays, 4:30pm