School buildings across the country are falling apart, they are damp, cold and unsafe - and yet consistently being denied funding by the Department for Education. We’re calling on the government to invest in school buildings now- to ensure that they are safe, comfortable and climate friendly well into the future.
School buildings across the country are falling apart! They're damp, unsafe and desperately in need of more funding from The Department of Education.
Only if the government invests in school buildings now, can we ensure schools are safe, comfortable and climate-friendly in the future!
We need to prove how urgent this task is! That's where you come in. Is your school in poor condition? Send us photos now using the instructions on this page. Want to see an example? Check out the gallery below!
In recent years, 234 schools in England were found to be built with the unsafe material RAAC! This made clear something students and teachers have known for a long time: our schools are in urgent need of a fix-up.
To add to that, many school buildings have poor energy efficiency, meaning schools are required to spend more money on heating, that money should be going into our education!
But we're not giving up the fight! 2,945 schools have signed on to go zero-carbon by 2030. We know that teachers want decent, environmentally-friendly buildings so that their students can engage with a sustainable environment everyday.
With more funding, we can make this a reality!
We’re calling on the government to fund the retrofitting and rebuilding of schools- cutting energy costs for schools and providing better learning environments for students, and helping the UK reach its net-zero goals.
We want to show the government that underfunding has really hurt our school buildings - but we need evidence to do this.
We need you- students, parents & teachers to send in photos of the problems with your school buildings - the damp, disrepair, inefficiency and mould damaging your learning environments.
**Sending in photos gives you the chance to enter our £50 National Book Token Prize Draw**
Submit emails or ask us questions at hello@teachthefuture.uk
Look below to see the problem with school buildings across the country.
It's sad that students are learning in environments like this - but there is a solution. The next government must invest to make our schools safer and bring them to net-zero, cutting costs and carbon emissions.
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