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

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>