Every school I work with has a climate action plan. It is usually a good one. Someone, often the eco-lead, or the Deputy Head, has spent evenings on it: energy targets, travel commitments, curriculum links, all set out properly and signed off by governors.
But how is this work launched? Maybe an assembly, a staff briefing, a PDF on the shared drive. And then it just stops being talked about.
I do not think that happens because staff do not care. It happens because a plan only stays alive if something keeps bringing it back into the room. A single launch can inform people. It cannot build a habit. And climate action plans, more than most school documents, live or die on habit.
What actually keeps a plan alive
You don’t need another assembly to launch your climate action plan, and sometimes a poster in the staff room just doesn’t cut it. What works is small, repeated, low-effort conversation, the kind that fits inside a staff meeting you are already running.
This is why I built this pack to fill.
Launching the Climate Action Plan: A peek inside
Climate Action Plan, Actually is six ready-to-run staff meeting sessions, each ten minutes, each built around one part of a typical plan: energy and the school building, travel, waste and procurement, curriculum and climate literacy, biodiversity and grounds, and community and parents.
Every session follows the same shape, so once your staff have done one, they know what to expect from the rest:
- An opening hook question to get the room talking
- Three talking points to ground the discussion
- A pair or small group discussion prompt
- A closing action that feeds straight into the self-audit worksheet
Alongside the six sessions, the pack includes:
- A self-audit worksheet, so staff can check what your plan says against what is actually happening, theme by theme, and agree one small, ownable next step each time
- An engagement tracker, so whoever leads on this has a record of what ran, what staff said, and what happened next, which doubles as evidence for governors, Ofsted, and DfE reporting
- Adapt This notes, covering how to tailor each session for primary or secondary, and how to swap in your own plan’s actual wording rather than mine
Nothing in it requires you to be a climate specialist to run. Any colleague can pick up a session and deliver it cold.
Why I priced it the way I did
£15 for the whole pack. One-off, not a subscription, because that is how schools actually buy this kind of thing, and because I would rather it sat in as many staff rooms as possible than be locked behind something clever.
If you are not sure whether it is right for your school, I mean this genuinely: email me and we can talk it through before you buy anything. rebecca@notyetzero.com.
