projects
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.
Flagship projects
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the great northern debate
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 ...
Sustainable Migrant Community Cultures in the North East
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 ...
Outdoor Laboratory
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 ...
Global Community Gardens
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 ...
Plant Biology Masterclass
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 ...
Textures and Growth
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 ...
North East Student Conference on ‘Sustainability’
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 ...
new projects
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:
Hartlepool Arts - Trade Winds
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 ...
Aspire Capacidad - North East and Iquitos
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 ...
Northern Kites Economic and Social Impacts Study
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River Pathways – an educational voyage
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 ...
Cullercoats, Past Present and Future
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 ...
Delve Deeper – Distance learning course in marine biology
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 ...
Coastal Issues and Fragile Habitats - Protecting Druridge Bay for the Future
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 ...
Grow Your Own Five
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 ...
A Meeting of Minds - Building Schools for the Future conference
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 ...