About
Future Schools seeks to bring together co-creation teams comprised of teachers, operational staff, interdisciplinary higher education students and building works teams to develop learning experiences for secondary school students based on retrofit (or related) works taking place at the school.
The goal is to ensure that by collaboration and co-creation at any stage, from the planning stage through to implementation, retrofitting is a positive, learner- and solutions-centred action that the whole school community can be engaged with in their journey towards carbon reduction and a climate just future.
We are interested in working with schools at different stages of their retrofitting journey, whether you are currently planning it, have ongoing works on site, or have recently had work completed.
Get involved
Each school taking part will be engaged over two school years at no cost, and we are looking to start delivery in late February/March 2026. We will accept six secondary schools in the 2025/26 school year, and our focus areas for the first cohort of schools are Bristol and Nottingham.
Please email us at hello@sos-uk.org to organise a call with the team and get your school involved!
We will accept up to 12 further schools to start the project in the 2026/27 school year, and are happy to explore other areas of England for enthusiastic schools. The participating schools will ideally have some work on retrofit, or plans to do so in the near future.
Project goals
Through Future Schools, we are aiming for the following outcomes:
- Net zero projects in schools are more successful and impactful.
- Net zero projects in schools routinely lead to learning legacies.
- Pupils and staff have less climate distress and eco-anxiety by being empowered about the climate action through real life learning opportunities.
- Built environment academics more regularly develop interdisciplinary project work opportunities for their students.