Sustainability

The Misbourne has prioritised sustainability as one of the core objectives in our School Improvement Plan (SIP) and we are committed to working toward embedding sustainability into all our future thinking, decisions and direction. 

At the heart of our community of students, staff and stakeholders, The Misbourne has a central role to play in educating its community about the importance of sustainability.  We have signed up to the Let's Go Zero campaign, working towards becoming carbon zero by 2030.  

Our sustainability actions to date:

• We have worked with a Let's Go Zero Climate Action Advisor to develop a Climate Action Plan for 2026-2027, highlighting our priorities for the coming year.
• Converted the majority of our interior lighting to LED to cut our electricity usage.
• Our lights use PIRs to automatically turn themselves off.
• Signed up to Energy Sparks to monitor and reduce our energy consumption.
• Installed a solar array on the Sports Centre roof to power our sports hall via solar power.
• Continuing to undertake significant heating improvement works to upgrade our boilers and improve the efficiency of our heating system.
• Installing a BMS to manage our heating across the site from a central point.
• Our student eco club worked with our Climate Ambassador to create a wildlife corridor across our site
• Planted a vegetable garden to educate students about sustainable food sources.
• We have introduced food recycling in our cafe.
• We have teamed up with a sustainable uniform supplier, Earth Uniform.
• Achieved the Modeshift STARS Good travel award to encourage sustainable travel.
• We have developed a preferred supplier list to procure items from local suppliers where possible.
• Our fabulous Friends of The Misbourne run a second-hand uniform shop to sell good-quality second-hand uniform. 
• Our catering partner, Accent Catering, sources local ingredients for our cafe wherever possible.
• We screened the Peoples' Emergency Briefing film to raise awareness of climate change

Our future sustainability plans:

• To increase the number of rooftop solar arrays across our site.
• To investigate the potential for EV charging points.
• To look into joining a staff EV car scheme.

Find out more about the Let’s Go Zero campaign here: https://letsgozero.org/