Oxfordshire Schools Sustainability Network
Bringing students and teachers from different schools together to discuss responses and solutions to sustainability challenges.
Sign up as a member
(for oxfordshire school students and teachers)
Membership is free and needs to be renewed annually from September each year. We ask students can sign up here so that we have details and permissions and then you can sign up for individual events quickly. Teachers can sign up here to be included in mailings about events and opportunities.
once signed up as a member, then Register for individual events below
2026 - 2027 events
Teacher online meet up | 9th September 2026 | 4:30 - 5:30pm
An opportunity for Oxfordshire teachers, SLT and Governors to share updates, ambitions, ideas and offer support to each other. Introducing the project to design a KS3 Pre-GCSENH curriculum.
Student in-person event: Supporting your EPQ | 1st October 2026 | 4:00 - 6:30pm (arrive between 4 and 4.30) | Oxford University School of Geography and Environment | Sign up to OxSSN on the list above or come with teachers from your school.
Student in-person event: OxCOP | 9th November 2026 | 10:00am - 14:30pm | Oxford Town Hall | For groups of students to join with a teacher from their school and form a team. Contact us for more details and sign up.
Growing Together: Sharing Our Practice, Progress, and Possibilities - a follow up for teachers and others who participated in the Collaborative Conference held in June 2026 | 19th November 2026 | 4:30 - 5:30pm | Online | Sign up on the Oxford Education Deanery website link below.
Student in-person event: Post school options for sustainability education and training | 26th November 2026 | 4:00 - 6:30pm | Trinity Garden Room | Sign up to OxSSN on the list above or come with teachers from your school.
Teacher in person meet up after the Trinity meeting | 26th November 2026 | 6:30 - 7:30pm | Venue will be posted on the teacher WhatsApp chat or email us for confirmation.
Teacher online meet up: Sharing progress and successes: focus on climate in the curriculum. With some nature and climate literacy thrown in. What does net zero actually mean? | 14th January 2027 | 4:30 - 5:30pm | Online | Sign up on the link below.
Oxfordshire Climate and Nature Teacher Online Meetup - Oxford Education Deanery
Student in-person event: Sustainable Food Systems | 28th January 2027 | 4:00 - 6:30pm | Oxford University School of Geography East Lab | Sign up to OxSSN on the list above or come with teachers from your school.
Student in-person event: Using your creativity for sustainability | 11th March 2027 | 4:00 - 6:30pm | Trinity Garden Room | Sign up to OxSSN on the list above or come with teachers from your school.
Teacher in person meet up after the Trinity meeting | 11th March 2027 | 6:30 - 7:30pm.
Teacher online meet up: Updates and a discussion about techniques for nature education | 27th April 2027 | 4:30 - 5:30pm | Online - sign up below.
Oxfordshire Climate and Nature Teacher Online Meetup - Oxford Education Deanery
Student in-person event: Building core skills for a sustainable economy | 13th May 2027 | 4:00 - 6:30pm | Oxford University School of Geography East Lab | Sign up to OxSSN on the list above or come with teachers from your school.
Teacher social and nature connection and education practicals | 17th June 2027 | 6:00 - 8:00pm | Location TBC - somewhere nice around Oxford | Sign up on the link below.
Where and When
Student meetings are usually after school, 4.00 pm (arrive between 4.00 and 4.30) to 6.30 pm. Our current indoor venues are the Oxford University School of Geography and Environment, and Trinity College. The Geography building entrance is in the University Science Area on Hinshelwood Road accessed from South Parks Road. Trinity College entrance is on Broad Street, OX1 3BH, opposite the turn into Turl St.
"Really useful talking to students who can tell me about various careers that they are thinking of to do with ecology and conservation. Also comforting knowing it's normal to be unsure at this point about what i want to do, and that I'll be able to drift around and try out various fields. Everyone was really friendly and encouraging" Student attending the discussions with Undergraduates in May 2024
"this was a good opportunity to get to chat with people with deep interest in climate change but in wide aspects. It shows me that climate change inter-connects with so many stuffs, emphasising the scale of its impact and the need of involvement from many stakeholders. I hope there will be more activities. Hoping that today's event will reflect that there are students that are keen on this topic and wish that they can make some changes." Student attending the May 2024 discussions with undergraduates.
"OxSSN rejuvenated my motivation for climate careers and it was really inspiring talking to university students and professionals in the field. Events like this one are so important for connecting climate movements across schools and organisations!"
ABOUT OxSSN
OxSSN is led by Phoebe Mortimer, Sustainability Lead for the River Learning Trust and an English teacher at Cheney School in Oxford; Megan Murray-Pepper, until recently a teacher and sustainability lead at Magdalen College School, and now independent sustainability educator; Lydia Wainwright, Sustainability Lead at Magdalen College School; and Kim Polgreen, a sustainability educator.
Our purpose is to support school students in the face of the climate and biodiversity challenge they face in their lives; to help them understand, prepare, and find a role within the future economy. We are running events to bring the students together, to share thoughts, ideas, and learning.
We are really grateful for support from the Oxford University Department of Education, the Oxford University School of Geography and Environment, the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery at Oxford University, Trinity College Oxford, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, the Oxford Climate Society, and the Oxford University Nature Conservation Society.
To get on our mailing list, email kim.polgreen@oxfordearthacademy.org.