Air Quality and School Streets
PWLC Projects have successfully delivered Air Quality programmes for the London boroughs of Croydon, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Islington, Redbridge, Southwark and Sutton. Our programmes are bespoke for each contracting authority, and adapted according to school capacity, travel transport issues, and participating age groups. They feature workshops, lessons, assemblies, theatre, drama and outdoor education, inspiring pupils to participate and learn.
Through pupil engagement we find the school takes greater ownership of the campaign, resulting in parents, staff and governors being more likely to get involved. Former BBC weather presenter Helen Young often kicks things off with a whole school assembly, so the whole school knows what’s happening and why.
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Results:
All of our projects increase pupil and parent awareness of air pollution, together with protection strategies to help reduce their exposure to pollutants.
Results from previous projects show an average increase in knowledge acquisition of up to 35%.; with the number of pupils travelling to school by car reduced by as much as 9%.
Typically we see 90%+ of pupils either ‘liked’ having been involved in our projects, or ‘liked it a lot’.
