Nick Ashbee
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Learn more about our Duke of Edinburgh’s Award volunteering programmes
If any of your pupils are struggling with what to do for the volunteering section of their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, why not suggest that they take a look at our new programmes? We provide ideas and suggested activities to help them complete their award while taking meaningful action on climate change.
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Easy energy field trips: To go boldly where no one (or child) has gone before…
Unless your school is next to a solar farm, nuclear reactor or gas power station, an energy related field trip might be a challenge. This article identifies some of the places that you might want to explore with students that are all on your school site to improve their understanding of energy use at school.
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A simple framework to help you weave energy saving into your year
We want to help make planning and implementing energy saving efforts as easy as possible for busy school staff. In this entertaining but informative article, Nick Ashbee – Head of Education at Energy Sparks, shares a simple framework to help you take the right actions at the right times, and reveals some of our best…
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“It’s all fine, Sir!” – how to help your pupils get their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award back on track
Between the initial enthusiasm of signing up for DofE and the focus of expeditions, Coordinators and Managers can spend a lot of time trying to help students organise and complete their other Award sections. Nick Ashbee, Head of Education at Energy Sparks reminisces on how he tackled this challenge as a teacher, and shares our…