
Ocean-Friendly Schools Award
Empower your students to take action for the ocean with our free award
The award
How it works
There are three action areas to choose from which focus on key conservation issues: marine pollution, sustainable seafood and climate change.
Each action area has four steps (listed below) for which there are required activities to complete. There are also optional activities your group can complete to further their learning.
- Step 1: Explore the issue
- Step 2: Evaluate your impact on the problem
- Step 3: Act to improve the issue in your school
- Step 4: Share what you've learned and encourage others to change
We provide a full suite of free, downloadable resources from our website to support you through each step.
As you complete your journey to become an Ocean-Friendly School, you'll need to submit evidence of your group's working using our online form so we can track your progress.
Once you've completed all the steps and submitted your evidence, you'll receive an engraved bamboo award to display with pride. We also have some post-award activities, like our Ocean Literacy Quiz, for your group to complete.
Action areas
FAQs
Ocean-Friendly Schools in 2024
An incredible twenty-four schools across the UK became accredited Ocean-Friendly Schools in 2024, with almost half of the schools based inland.
It's amazing seeing the pupils' depth of understanding on ocean and climate change issues. They were all rightly proud of themselves and were great at sharing their learning and successes! They are empowered to keep going.
Ms Fowlie, Forgue School (Aberdeenshire)
Sign up
If your school is keen to get involved, register your interest to start in September 2025 using our online form.
If you're a current Ocean-Friendly School, you can access your resources here.
If you're a current Ocean-Friendly School, you can access your resources here.