Welcome to the Total Green School Awards which aim to assist and encourage environmental education for young people aged 5-11. They promote cross-curricular work on the environment and offer opportunities to study energy including fossil fuels and alternative technologies, linking with the National Curriculum for England and Wales and the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, click here to explore our guides.
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The Total Green School Awards are split into four regions (South/Central, North, Wales and West, Scotland) and there will be a winner for each Award category in each region. The best entry chosen from all of the winners in each region will be made a Regional Champion and will receive £1,000. The best of the Regional Champions will be chosen as the UK Champions, who recieve a total of £5,000 for the school funds.
In addition to all the winners, 16 Runners-Up will receive £250 each for the school funds. A further 20 Highly Commended schools will receive £100.
Over 50 chances to win!
UK Champions’ prize of £5,000
Three prizes of £1,000 for Regional Champions
12 prizes of £500 for Regional Winners
16 prizes of £250 for Runners-Up
20 prizes of £100 for Highly Commended entries
Downloadable certificate for every entry received
UK Champion 2016
English Martyrs Catholic Voluntary Academy
The Big 50 - Long Eaton to Bunkpurugu!
The project drew inspiration from the fact that the school was built 50 years ago this year. It prompted the children to research how they impact upon the environment and to partner with a new school, which is being built at Bunkpurugu in Ghana. Taking the number 50 as the theme, the children h...
Find out moreThe Categories
The competition is split up into 4 categories, schools enter projects in one or more of the categories
Totally Active
The Totally Active category is for projects involving work in the school grounds e.g. sensory gardens, ponds, wildlife areas, recycling schemes and composting. Alternatively, for reports on visits ......
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Totally Clued Up
The Totally Clued Up category is for projects researching any aspect of the environment – can be incorporated into Geography, Science, Maths, I.T. and History e.g. Wild bird feeding or recycling su......
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Totally Scientific (NEW for 2017!)
For projects identifying plants and animals, studying living things and their habitats, looking at life cycles and nutrition. ...
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Totally Creative
Totally Creative is the category for environmentally themed art, music and poetry e.g. Save the planet song, Pollution rap, Art inspired by the environment, Cleaner planet mural, recycled Fashion S......
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Total is the world’s 4th-ranked oil and gas company. As a leading global integrated energy group, we are dedicated to meeting the energy needs of the communities in the 130 countries in which we operate and elsewhere in the world. We produce, refine and market oil and manufacture petrochemicals. We are also a major player in natural gas, a top 3 solar player and the European leader in biofuel marketing. Demonstrating their commitment to better energy, our 96,000 employees help supply our customers around the world with safer, cleaner, more efficient and more innovative products that are accessible to as many people as possible. The diversity of our global activities is represented in the UK through oil and gas exploration and production, refining and petrochemicals operations, energy trading and marketing. Total is a leading operator on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf.
Through the Total Green School Awards, we hope young people will be inspired and motivated to think about what they personally can do to help protect the planet and enhance the life experiences for future generations.
YPTE (registered charity number 1153740) that aims to encourage young people’s understanding of the natural world and of the need for sustainability. It educational services for schools and young people including:
Website: ypte.org.uk for a huge range of environmental information, written for young people and teachers
Conservation Education our free downloable publication for teachers and older students is published each term on our website. Member schools receive notification via email of new publications. Membership of YPTE is free to schools in the UK - join up online by visiting our websites.
Lesson plans and presentations: Free downloadable lesson plans accompanied by presentations to assist teaching about environmental issues.
Educational videos: Free, downloadable videos on key environmental issues for use by teachers and students.
Free talks in schools: Currently available for schools within a 30 mile radius of Yeovil, Somerset and to schools throughout Sussex, our talks and presentations cover a wide range of environmental issues and can be tailored to suit different age groups and abilities.