Bricks & Mortar: My Environment – My Future: a year on

This week’s episode of Bricks & Mortar sees host Sarah Jackman catch up with Terry Watts, CEO of the Chartered Surveyors Training Trust, and Suzanne Thorne, head of geography at Dunottar School in Reigate, Surrey.

Sarah and Terry first spoke around 12 months ago about the launch of a new initiative – My Environment My Future – a schools programme promoting the built environment and careers within it to those taking GCSE geography. A year later and the programme has been accessed by around 200 schools – exceeding Watts’s original hope and making it, he believes, the biggest schools programme in this sector.

But he’s not stopping there. He’s upped his projection for the coming year and, in the next five years, hopes to reach half of all schools in the UK. Thorne – who has helped put together the materials – can attest to their usefulness in the classroom, not only in helping to highlight the the career possibilities to students, but in helping to support teachers provide that insight.

Hear them discuss the provision of careers information for the built environment, how the programme fits within it and how it has been received so far.