A hot topic at the minute, especially with schools struggling in the recent heat waves – school grounds were designed…
Category: School Advice
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Beyond the School Gates: Partnering With Local Businesses on Climate Action
I’m often asked where schools can get help to support actions on the Climate Action Plan. This is…
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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,…
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The Hidden Carbon Curriculum: Auditing Your School’s Everyday Climate Messages
There’s the explicit curriculum, the lessons, the assemblies, the carefully planned units on climate change and sustainability. And…
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Parent Engagement in Climate Education? Turning Homework Conversations into Household Action
Your students are learning about climate change in geography. They’re discussing renewable energy in science. Maybe they’re part…
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Running a Whole-School Energy Project
I’m currently supporting a school on their climate action plan. We’ve talked lots about whole school energy projects…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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Climate Science in Primary School: A Practical Guide for KS1 and KS2 Teachers
We all know that, currently school curriculum leaves a lot to be desired with climate change and climate science. Especially…
Schools in the Heat: Practical Tips for Hot Weather
With the Met Office issuing amber and red heat health alerts this week – and hotter summers becoming the norm…
Words Matter: A Teacher’s Guide to Climate Vocabulary
Teachers knows that words are not neutral. And so the vocabulary we use to talk about climate change are not…
Beyond the Biscuit Tin: How to Get the Most From Your School Eco Group
A practical guide for your school eco group. You know, the one that meets on a Tuesday lunchtime. There are…
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…
Small School, Big Impact: A Practical Guide to Sustainability for Smaller Schools
Most sustainability guidance for schools assumes a certain scale – always an issue for small schools. We’re asked to provide…