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- We enable schools to embed climate education into lessons and become more sustainable through a range of training, support, and resources. This gives teachers and young people the tools they need to tackle the climate crisis at school, in their communities and throughout their lives.
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At Green Schools Project, alongside many other organisations in the sector, we understand the need for high quality climate education and action in schools. Many teachers, senior leaders, academy trusts, and people in local government do as well, however there is a long way to go.
2 days ago · We recently surveyed more than 2,400 school students aged 11-14 in England about their views on climate change and sustainability education. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds were less ...
Dec 20, 2023 · To achieve this in a world influenced by the effects of climate change, we must level up within a context of sustainability, giving all children, young people and adults the knowledge and skills...
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- Why This Is Important
- Identifying Your Sustainability Leadership Structure
- A Whole-Setting Approach
- Climate Action Plans
- What Is Needed If You Have Already Started
- How to Get Started
A key initiative of DfE’s sustainability and climate change strategy for educationis ‘sustainability leadership and climate action plans’. The strategy states: “By 2025, all education settings will have nominated a sustainability lead and put in place a climate action plan”. This includes early years settings, schools, multi-academy trusts, college...
Our engagement has highlighted that settings and trusts have the greatest success in driving change where there is a holistic action plan that is supported by a leadership team with the authority, knowledge, and commitment to take it forward. Ensuring you have clear leadership for sustainability in place, and a climate action plan, will help your s...
Though it is up to each individual setting or trust to decide the structure of their sustainability leadership team, best practice shows that change is delivered when driven by a diverse team of passionate individuals. It is important that both educational (for example, teaching staff) and operational (for example, estates management) expertise is ...
It is important that the whole education setting, or trust, is engaged so that planning becomes action.
Creating a climate action plan will allow you to take a structured and strategic route toward ensuring your setting or trust is acting toward, and educating about, sustainability. You may choose to have a climate action plan that sits within an individual setting, or across a trust, or both. A climate action plan should typically cover the followin...
Your setting or trust may already have an environmental plan or sustainability strategy in place and may already be calculating its emissions. Equally you may also be working with one of the many excellent organisations who help education settings address sustainability. Our approach is not designed to duplicate planning and action that has already...
Visit Sustainability Support for Educationto discover where to start or what you could do next. The site includes a range of resources, best practice, and tools to help you develop, or build on, your climate action plan, for all phases of education. Participating in the National Education Nature Parkis also a great step on your journey – providing ...
2 days ago · It is essential that schools provide high-quality climate and sustainability education that engages all students and avoids causing disengagement and despair. The strategies we’ve outlined here will help schools do so, thereby equipping the next generation with the skills, knowledge and agency to tackle climate change.
2 days ago · Students should be encouraged to share their emotions, be it sadness, anxiety or anger. These are valid and natural responses when learning about climate change. Creative practices can encourage ...
