A practical guide for your school eco group. You know, the one that meets on a Tuesday lunchtime. There are…
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Your Neighbourhood Knows Things: How Schools Can Partner With Local
There is a good chance that somewhere near your school there is a local sustainability group who know a great…
When Climate Education Feels Political: A Practical Guide for Teachers
A parent emails to complain that you are pushing a political agenda or maybe it’s a governor raising concerns about…
Beyond the School Gates: Partnering With Local Businesses on Climate
I’m often asked where schools can get help to support actions on the Climate Action Plan. This is the first…
Are We Just Talking to Ourselves?
How can climate education reach beyond the already knowledgable? I know this question comes up often within our sector, but…
Climate Anxiety in the Classroom: How to Teach Without Frightening
Getting started with climate education in the classroom reveals a few issues for teachers. Confidence in the science, political controversy…
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Is Ofsted Beginning to Look at Climate Change Education?
Climate change and sustainability are becoming harder to ignore in education. Young people are talking about it, schools are acting on it (in various different ways!) and national policy is nudging education settings towards climate action plans and sustainability leadership. (Some context can be found at the NAEE site here.) But I do keep…
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Many Schools Are Still Without a Sustainability Lead — What can be done?
Climate education and sustainability leadership are moving towards being expected practice in UK schools. Mainly thanks to the Department for Education’s Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy, which set out that every school should nominate a sustainability lead and develop a climate action plan by 2025. Yet we know with the best will in the…
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Climate Education in the National Curriculum: What do schools need to know?
Discover how climate education in UK schools is being embedded across the curriculum, and what sustainability leads, teachers and senior leaders should do next.
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Why climate education is a safeguarding issue
I say this. I repeat this at conferences and at meetings. And I’m just not sure that school leaders get it – because I would have been one of those school leaders and I know the competing pressures. But I stand by it completely. Teaching our children about the climate crisis is not only…
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Communicating your Climate Action Plan
Adivce for communicating your school’s climate action plan, making use of research recently completed by Climate Outreach.
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What’s the carbon footprint of my eyelashes, Miss?
What can we do to hold out favourite beauty brands to account for their sustainabilty goals?
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What’s in a climate action plan?
The DfE are asking for education settings to have a climate action plan in place for September. Lets take a look at what that means. Want to make sure that your school’s climate action plan is actually useful and inspirational? We have some here to make sure that it’s more than just a piece…
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Local Climate Issues: Communication is Key
Local elections look like bad news for climate action – so what can we do about it? It seems that the only people happy with the local election results this week are Reform supporters. And, whilst local priorities will probably take precedence in these areas, it’s fair to say that no Reform candidates have…
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Bringing others along with your climate action plan!
New to the sustainabilty lead in school? Bringing others along with you is vital when building your climate action plan- and it can be a difficult task. Net zero, the ‘green agenda’, ‘zero carbon’ – all can have negative connotations amongst the wider communty. Finding the way to motivate others to play their part…
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Are you the new sustainability lead in school?
All education settings are working towards new statutory requirements ready for 2025. The requirements are part of the DfE’s climate strategy – and are part of the drive towards decarbonisation for 2050. In short, schools (and in fact, all education settings) are required to have a sustainability lead in place by 2025, backed up…