Sustainability Matters in Early Childhood.
Discover why sustainability matters and the benefits of embedding sustainable practices in your ECEC service.
Download our free guide: Why Sustainability Matters in Early Childhood.
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It's just another trend...
Sustainaiblity isn't just another trend, it's becoming increasingly critical and urgent. It's not going anywhere.
Our understanding of sustainability and it's impacts are becoming more complex along with the challenges we're now facing. Recycling, a worm farm and a water tank are no longer enough...
ECEC Services have an important role to play and a unique opportunity to lead our collective response and create intergenerational impacts. It's a lot to take on, especially in a sector under pressure from all sides.
Creating Impact.
What if you had the opportunity to make a real difference, create massive impact and lead significant change for sustainability - creating a better world for children? Would you do it?
Of course you would! Even if it wasn't easy...
Sustainability isn't easy, but it's so worth it.
When you work with young children you have the unique opportunity to guide the development of foundational and lifelong values, behaviours and attitudes. You provide experiences for them to explore the world around them and their place in it.
There's no better time to introduce sustainability!
Sustainability brings opportunities & benefits...
For your service
Make sustainability relevant and purposeful.
Empower your team to make meaningful change.
Meet & exceed the requirements of the Early Years Learning Framework & Quality Standards.
For children
Explore the world around them and develop knowledge, skills & habits for sustainability.
Actively contribute to creating a sustainable future & participate in actions that affect them. Develop agency understanding that what they do makes a difference.
For Families
Support children in developing knowledge, skills & habits for a sustainable future. Leave a legacy of sustainability for future generations.
Contribute to creating a sustainable community.
For communities
Connect and Collaborate with community partners to amplify your impact & lead change for sustainability.
Create the world that we want.
Why Sustainability is Essential in Early Childhood Education
Discover how embedding sustainability in your early years setting can:
- Build a Brighter Future: Equip children with lifelong sustainability values, and develop the skills and dispositions required to thrive in an increasingly uncertain world.
- Enhance Your Service: Increase staff engagement and attract like-minded families. Bring people together around a common purpose and create positive outcomes for all.
- Create Community Impact: Foster a culture of sustainability that resonates beyond your service. Advocate for children's rights to be active and engaged citizens for sustainability.
What's Inside the Guide?
- The Importance of Early Years for Sustainability: Why starting at the start matters. What are the benefits for the people and the planet?
- Opportunities and Benefits for ECEC Services: How sustainability enriches your service. Sustainability address multiple aspects of the EYLF 2.0 and NQS at once.
- Building a Sustainable Community: The ripple effects of embedding sustainability. Amplify your impact through engagement, collaboration and partnerships.
- Drivers of change: What levers could support change in your service and drive engagement, consistency and continuous imporvement.
