The Alleyn’s Sustainability Committee is a group of volunteers, comprising of a cross-section of staff and pupils from the governing body to the youngest members of our school in the Junior School, who meet monthly with the aim of providing impetus, and coordinating and measuring the sustainable journey we are on as a school.
The work of the Sustainability Committee focuses on the idea that sustainability is everyone’s responsibility within the Alleyn’s community and that Alleyn’s should work towards becoming carbon zero as soon as possible, through the individual actions of many across aspects of Alleyn’s life. This is also a central to the School’s ambition to ensure that over the time the School can generate its own energy and preserve its resources as much as possible.
Members also work in groups outside their meetings to look at specific areas on which we can take action as a community.
These areas include our curriculum, our co-curriculum, educating and training staff and finally, but equally significantly, our infrastructure, because as a large school our actions count, and our buying power will have great effect. Find out more in our blog by Assistant Head (Director of Studies) Aidan Sproat-Clements.
We also have a pupil-led Eco Committee and Environment Society which raise awareness amongst pupils and organise activities and events to engage pupils in the issues, from rehoming lost property to delivering engaging assemblies on environmental issues to all pupils.