OFH Nature and Rewilding Apprenticeship Course launches in Sherborne Schools.

It was a pleasure to join together with Louise Orton, (Senior Deputy Head, Sherborne Girls), Alana Thornburn (Ecology, Conservation and Sustainability Ambassador in Residence, Sherborne Girls) Matthew Jamieson (Director of Operations, Sherborne School) and eco prefects from Sherborne Girls and Sherborne School, to mark the launch of our new 1 year nature and rewilding apprenticeship programme.

Thanks to the generous support of both these schools, along with Julia Hailes MBE and the Enjoolata Foundation, we are now able to offer the programme free to state schools who sign up to become member Rewilding Schools.

It is an exciting time for us at Operation Future Hope as we start to see the roll out of a long held vision to provide relevant, vital, up to date ecological and planetary education for young people.

Our aim now is to enrol schools across the nation, and to equip as many school children as possible with the knowledge and skills to become Earth stewards and protectors of the whole community of life - young men and women who hold empathy for all living beings and an understanding of our deep inter-relatedness and inter-dependance with mother nature and the web of life.

And now for a spotlight on Alana Thornburn, who is playing a key role in delivering feedback from each lesson, enabling us to continually update and improve our content. Alana is also supporting the roll out across schools in Sherborne.

“As part of her new role at Sherborne Girls, Alana will continue the collaboration with Sherborne School and The Gryphon School in taking forward the Operation Future Hope programme, a national rewilding and ecological initiative that involves young people in the restoration of nature. The first school to sign up to Operation Future Hope over two years’ ago, Sherborne Girls, together with Sherborne School and The Gryphon, has already completed the successful re-wilding of large areas within school grounds.  

As well as working with the Sherborne Girls Eco Council to drive forward the School’s plans to be carbon-neutral by 2030 (Let’s Go Zero), Alana will begin rolling out the educational elements of the Operation Future Hope programme across all three Schools. Pupils will learn about vital conservation issues and acquire the knowledge needed to engage with and care for the natural world. “ Extract from Sherborne Girls Stories .