How Is LEH Building a Sustainable Future?
At LEH, we’re building a future where people and the planet thrive together. Sustainability isn’t just a subject it is a shared mission. Our pupils are at the heart of this effort, leading ambitious projects that are transforming our school and making a real impact in the wider world.
We’re proud to have been awarded the Eco-Schools’ Green Flag Award with Distinction, an international mark of excellence that recognises our commitment to environmental action. This award is a celebration of our pupils’ creativity, leadership, and determination to turn good intentions into meaningful change.
From launching campaigns to reduce waste and conserve energy, to creating new habitats that support biodiversity across our 24-acre campus, LEH pupils are proving that young people have the ideas, and the drive, to lead the way. Their work is bold, collaborative, and deeply rooted in our school’s values.
We’re not just teaching sustainability, we’re living it. And with every initiative, every eco-committee meeting, and every moment of action, we’re preparing our pupils to shape a greener, fairer future with confidence and conviction.
Sustainability at LEH sits alongside the school’s wider commitment to producing informed, ethical, and resourceful young women. The values that underpin our environmental work, critical thinking, collaboration, long-term thinking, and a genuine sense of responsibility for the world we share, are the same values that define an LEH education more broadly.
What Sustainability Initiatives Do LEH Pupils Lead?
The sustainability programme at LEH is genuinely pupil-led. From the Eco Committee, which drives school-wide environmental initiatives, to individual projects that have tackled everything from food waste reduction to energy monitoring, our pupils do not wait to be told what to do. They identify problems, propose solutions, and see them through.
Recent highlights include:
- The school’s Eco-Schools Green Flag Award with Distinction, achieved through sustained action across energy, biodiversity, waste, and water.
- Biodiversity projects across the 24-acre campus, including new planting schemes and habitat creation to support local wildlife.
- Energy reduction campaigns led by pupils monitoring and reporting on the school’s carbon footprint.
- Whole-school education initiatives including assemblies, form tutor sessions, and curriculum integration of sustainability themes.
- Collaboration with local and national organisations to bring external expertise and wider impact to the school’s work.
How Does Sustainability Connect to Life at LEH?
Sustainability is woven into school life at LEH rather than treated as a separate subject. Pupils encounter it through the curriculum, through co-curricular opportunities, and through the day-to-day culture of the school. The 24-acre campus itself provides a living resource for environmental education, with outdoor spaces within our grounds that are actively used and carefully managed. You can find out more about our 24-acre campus and facilities on the our campus page.
LEH pupils who are passionate about environmental issues will find a community of like-minded peers and supportive staff ready to help them act. The school actively creates space for student voice on sustainability, and the most ambitious projects have come directly from pupils who had an idea and were given the support to pursue it.
What Does LEH’s Approach to Sustainability Say About the School’s Values?
LEH’s commitment to sustainability reflects the school’s broader mission: to produce women who are informed, bold, and ethical. The school has been educating remarkable women since 1710, and today that means preparing girls not only for academic success but for thoughtful, purposeful engagement with the world. You can read more about our school strategy and values here.
When LEH pupils lead sustainability projects, they are developing exactly the skills and qualities that the school has always sought to cultivate, leadership, creativity, collaboration, resilience, and a genuine concern for others.
If you would like to find out more about life at LEH and what makes the school distinctive, we would love to welcome you. Visit our admissions pages to find out about open events and how to apply.
