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The activities of RCE North East are based around a series of projects run by diverse groups throughout the region including formal institutions such as universities, colleges and schools and informal bodies such as voluntary organisations and social clubs. Here are a few to give you an idea of the range of activities in which we are involved:
the great northern debate project is an extension of the established Development, Sustainability and Environment series run by The Great Debate. The project aims to deliver public workshops and debates, courses in schools, and action research into improving educational practice through discussion based learning. more ...
18 month Participatory Action Research Project to explore the issues surrounding migrant cultures and sustainability. Working with three ethnic communities to produce a collaborative programme of education celebrating cultural similarities and differences. more ...
The project would involve developing an outdoor space in the grounds of St Cuthbert’s RC High School to serve as a teaching resource primarily in the area of environmental science. more ...
As a Language College and Ecoschool, St. Bede’s Catholic School and Sixth Form College will create international wildlife and artwork ‘zones’ around the school grounds. Zones will include: Brazilian rainforest, Mediterranean garden, Chinese zone, Japanese Zen garden, Spanish Sierra, French jardin, Durham Moorland. more ...
The project will take place on an annual basis and involves a one day master class in plant biology. The project will be aimed at gifted and talented Year 9 pupils (level 7+). The course will cover basic plant biology as well as electrophoresis and medical applications of plants. Each session will involve around 20 pupils invited from a range of schools in the North East area. more ...
This art and photography project brings students from 16 Schools to use visual methods of investigation of air quality. Schools and community groups will take part in a week long summer school that looks at lichen as indicators of air pollution. Following visits to various outdoor activities participants will make works of art about what they have seen. Newcastle University will bring scientists to the schools to explain how some of the lichen can indicate air quality – and we will investigate ways in which the knowledge we gain together from this can be disseminated amongst our broader community. more ...
Conference for 200 students learning in schools affiliated to Specialist Schools and Academies Trust across the North East region held on 26th June 2008. Conference focus was on Sustainability: Resources and Energy; Communities; and Schools. more ...
Since the ratification of our flagship projects a series of additional projects have been badged as RCE North East projects, many of which have now also been submitted to the UNU for international recognition. Here is a selection:
Run by RCE partner North East Centre for Lifelong Learning this national award-winning education programme is unique to our region. A revolution in lifelong learning: learning for learners and for the love of learning. more ...
Great North Festival's aim is to celebrate the region. It has three purposes, first to explore alternative life styles and the questions a changing world imposes, secondly to hold a multi-faceted exhibition which will illustrate the creativity and innovative purpose of the region (with the spiritual purpose of exploring a vision for the future and thus, reignite the gift of hope) and thirdly to do this against a background of the presence of the 8th century ‘Lindisfarne Gospels’ in the region. Essentially it is to be about creativity and innovation with the spiritual purpose of exploring a vision for the future in order to reignite the gift of hope. Starting in November 2011, our events will run throughout the year, culminating in a 'Week of Hope' at end of 2013. more ...
The Academy for Possible Futures will be a space where we can help to rejuvenate the local economy through the creation of the kinds of jobs which will help bring us closer to an ecologically sustainable culture.
These jobs will include micro renewable engineering projects, ecological design and manufacture (beginning with aquaponics greenhouses), film-making workshops and public debates, web-development and digital design (creation of ecological design tools), scientific research and arts collaborations, educational workshops and arts interventions.
The workshop will be home to the Sentient Cities project whilst being open to other organisations and individuals, beginning locally but with a view to becoming an international place of learning for an ecologically sustainable future. more ...
The 2012 conference is concerned with the world's population hitting 7 billion; human development is being hailed as both the cause and the solution to our population crisis. Should we be celebrating the successes of development or should we be concerned about rising inequalities across the world? more ...
The roadshow, which was held in March 2012, aimed to let people know about the RCE and get a better understanding of it. It was also intended to let partners in NECTER / RCE North East know about the work of the college and SCENE.
The sixth form students staged a major event, the “Re-Newcastle College: Sustainability Road Show”, at Rye Hill Campus, featuring a wide range of activities which raise awareness of sustainability issues. more ...
English Martyrs School in Hartlepool will once again play host to school students from across the Borough with the forthcoming Trade Winds summer arts school to coincide with the visit of the Tall Ships Race to Hartlepool in July 2010. more ...
RCE North East is working in Partnership with a voluntary organisation 'The Peru Mission', Newcastle University Sports Development Team, SUNNE and schools across the North East to develop an intercultural exchange programme involving young people from the North East of England and Iquitos in the Amazon Rain Forest. more ...
The project will deliver STEM activities centred around the physical and natural landscape of the Tyne Estuary and drawing on the area’s rich technological and cultural heritage associated with shipbuilding, trade and manufacturing industries. more ...
The Project promotes sustainability of natural resources by engaging the local community in collating information on and taking pride in the environment around them. It promotes sustainability of maritime heritage and explores ways in which communities can embrace their own natural and cultural heritage. more ...
This project increases access to science learning to adult learners who are passionate about marine environments and wish to engage
further with the natural world. Students are exposed to leading scientists in their research fields and benefit from all that that entails. The model of education itself is being examined for improvement and as a future model of wider learning to be promoted and extended. more ...
Working with scientists from the Dove Marine Laboratory, staff from Northumberland Wildlife Trust and the National Trust and students from The King Edward VI School, Morpeth, Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd, Cramlington volunteers will participate in developing management plans for Druridge Bay in Northumberland. The plans will include an area of sand dunes and the adjacent hinterland, including three man-made freshwater and saline ponds which together, make up Druridge Links, a nature reserve administered by the National Trust and the Northumberland Wildlife Trust. more ...
The aim of the Grow Your Own Five project is to learn about growing food and issues concerning locally sourced produce. In April 2009 over a thousand young people from the Tanfield ‘family of schools’ and members of the local communities there participated in the programme. So now there are a thousand pairs of eyes watching the development of their personal food gardens on a thousand window sills across North County Durham. more ...
One day conference to bring together stakeholders in Building Schools for the Future (BSF). The intention is to provide a forum for participants in the BSF programme to take stock of their experience, exchange good practice in the design and procurement of facilities and make recommendations to enhance the BSF scheme going forward. more ...
